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FinDev Interview

Getting Inclusion Right: What Will It Take?

To kick off Financial Inclusion Week 2018, we sat down with Beth Rhyne, Managing Director of the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion (CFI), to hear her thoughts on this year's theme, Getting Inclusion Right, and CFI's 10th anniversary.
FinDev Blog

Getting It Right: Learning About Savings

Five key questions we have (partially) answered so far at the Savings Learning Lab
FinDev Blog

Getting It Right: With Mobile for Girls

Mobile offers significant potential to engage people at scale, connecting them to services and solutions that can improve their everyday lives. The rise of mobile banking products, such as Safaricom’s mPesa in Kenya and other digital financial services, show that overcoming specific contextual challenges and responding to the demand of low-income people at scale, requires digitally-led solutions.
FinDev Blog

Getting It Right: Providing Financial Services to Refugees

Drawing on the findings from recently released market studies in Jordan and Uganda, here are the top five recommendations for financial service providers (FSPs) willing to contribute to the financial inclusion of refugees.
FinDev Blog

Closing the “Blockchain for Development” Evidence Gap

Have we formed unrealistic expectations for this new technology?
FinDev Blog

Could Blockchain Help Emerging Markets Leapfrog Traditional Technologies?

Leveraging distributed ledger technology to promote financial inclusion and sustainable development
FinDev Guide

Gateway Guide to Blockchain

These days, it seems like everyone is talking about the revolutionary potential of blockchain. But do such proclamations sometimes have you scratching your head, wishing you understood what blockchain actually is? In this Gateway Guide we start with the ABCs: What is blockchain and why should I care?