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Accion Announces New Program to Help Close Financing Gap for Women

With support from The Coca-Cola Foundation, Accion will partner with financial service providers in Bangladesh, Ghana, India, and Mexico to address challenges faced by women when accessing financial services.

Publication Jan 2025

Financial Inclusion of Vulnerable Sectors With a Gender Perspective: Risk Analysis Model With Artificial Intelligence Based on Complex Thinking

The objective of this study is to present a proposal for a gender-sensitive risk analysis model using artificial intelligence (AI) within the framework of complex thinking that provides access to opportunities, specifically for vulnerable populations such as women from underprivileged sections.

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Guidelines: Expanding Financial Inclusion to Women in Mexico

This document aims to guide financial institutions toward the intentional inclusion of women through concrete actions to adapt their product offering and make the necessary organizational and cultural changes.

Publication Oct 2024

Inclusive Fintech: How Startups Are Bridging the Finance Gap for Microenterprises

This focus note features a range of case studies based on CGAP's research and highlights the potential and actual impacts of microenterprise fintech models.

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Argentine Fintech Tapi Raises $22 Million Amid Expansion Into Mexico

The company projects it will process around $400 million in payments this year in the five countries in which it operate.

Publication Apr 2024

Open Finance Self-Assessment Tool and Development Roadmap

This technical guide introduces the open finance self-assessment tool and development roadmap. It provides practical tools for policymakers to use to decide whether to implement an open finance regime to advance financial inclusion.

Publication Mar 2024

Impact Investment Advances Inclusive Finance for ClimateSmart Agriculture

This case study outlines how Verqor, an agro-financing app which raised $7.5 million in financing in 2023, promotes climate adaptation and resilience, as well as how their metrics inform progress beyond financial returns.

Publication May 2023

Risk-based Capital and Supervision - A2ii-IAIS Supervisory Dialogue Report

The shift to risk-based capital (RBC) approaches has many benefits for stakeholders in the insurance sector including consumers, industry players and supervisors. Not only does it support the development of the insurance market by providing flexibility and encouraging innovation, but it is also more efficient, allocating capital more appropriately to risk and reducing the amount of dormant capital. Additionally, RBC gives supervisors improved measures of financial soundness, insights into insurers’ risk management practises and corporate governance structures, comparability and proportionate ladders of intervention, leading to better supervision.

Publication Apr 2023

Global Landscape: Data Trails of Digitally Included Poor (DIP) People

This reading deck puts a spotlight on the specific data trails generated by digitally included yet poor people, the sources of these data trails, and variations of data trails across different segmentations.

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IFC Grants Financing to Arrendamás for $1,000 Million Pesos to Boost SMEs in Mexico

The IFC financing will be aimed at supporting the growth plan of Arrendamás, focusing on increasing both the placement of products, as well as the diversification and quality of its credit portfolio.