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Mobile Money and Interoperability: Competition vs. Financial Inclusion?
A new study shows that interoperability has contrasting effects for financial inclusion in Africa. While it helps lower fees, it also reduces geographical coverage, so how to strike the right balance?
By Markus K. Brunnermeier, Nicola Limodio, Lorenzo Spadavecchia
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Central Bank Digital Currencies: Five Lessons From Three Trailblazers
Experiences from the Bahamas, China and Nigeria help illuminate the rocky path for other central banks interested in implementing their own digital currencies.
By Kinyanjui Mungai, Michaella Allen, Barry Cooper, Cenfri
FinDev Blog
Blazing a Trail for Women’s Financial Inclusion in Nigeria
The Central Bank of Nigeria has identified eight Strategic Imperatives. With their respective communities of practice, they aim to close the country’s financial inclusion gender gap.
By Sophia O. Abu, Central Bank of Nigeria
FinDev Blog
Microfinance in the Arab World: Growing, Evolving and Building Resilience
Five key takeaways from the 2022 Sanabel Conference on the state of financial inclusion in the region
By Valdete Berisha, Edy Semaan, FinDev Gateway
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Rising Interest Rates, a Strong Dollar and Global Inflation Could Burden MFIs
How will the evolving global macroeconomic situation impact the microfinance sector in emerging markets? Financial inclusion consultant Erik Geurts shared his thoughts on a recent Let's Talk Microfinance podcast.
By Guy Rodwell, Financial Due Diligence Associates
FinDev Blog
Artificial Intelligence in Financial Inclusion: How Should Supervisors Respond?
The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the financial sector is spreading exponentially across advanced and emerging economies. What are the risks and opportunities presented by these innovations?
By Denise Dias, Toronto Centre
FinDev Blog
Four Types of Policies to Help Build Climate Resilience
The third post of the FinDev Blog Series on Climate Change and Financial Inclusion discusses the 4 Ps of inclusive green finance, which provide a framework for policymakers to harness the potential of financial inclusion.
By Johanna Nyman, Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI)
FinDev Blog
Shifting Perspectives: From Financial Inclusion to Financial Health of Forcibly Displaced Persons (FDPs)
Three years since the Global Compact on Refugees, financial health remains elusive for most refugees. New research puts forth a financial health framework for measuring progress against the challenges refugees face.
By Linnea Kreibohm, Barri Shorey, Hans-Martin Zademach, Kim Wilson
FinDev Blog
How Do We Measure Financial Health?
In the third post of our blog series on financial health, we explore how capturing the essence of this multi-dimensional concept takes us beyond standard measures of financial access or income.
By Paul Gubbins, Ben Mazzotta
FinDev Blog
Four Ways Financial Sector Policymakers Can Promote Financial Health
In the second post in our blog series on financial health, we explore what policymakers can do to ensure that the financial sector works to support people’s financial wellbeing.
By Elisabeth Rhyne