Financial Inclusion in Singapore

East Asia and Pacific

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FinDev Blog
Blog

Financial Inclusion in Paradise

There are currently no Pacific Island Countries included in the Global Findex Database. So how does the Pacific stack up to the Global Findex?

Liz Larson

Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme

Turning Steel into Mobile Money, Nigeria. Photo credit: Anjali Banthia, 2012 CGAP Photo Contest.
FinDev Blog
Blog

Past the Tipping Point? A Look at Zambia’s Digital Financial Services Market

Digital financial services (DFS) and FinTech innovations continued to grow in 2017, with increased trust in DFS and more interoperability. But challenges remain...

Uloma Ogba
UNCDF
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FinDev Blog
Blog

Racing To Become a Leader in Digitally-Enabled Financial Inclusion

With just one telco and a focus on rural markets, Ethiopia challenges many of our assumptions as it creates its own digital finance ecosystem.

Shelley Spencer, Mandana Nakhai, Faith Bartz Tarr

Publications

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Guide / Toolkit

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.

Shilpa Sathe, Ivo Jeník
CGAP
Paper

Establishing a Financial Services Ombudsman in Mongolia: Experiences and Lessons From Armenia, Australia, and Singapore

This paper shares insights from three long-standing financial alternative dispute resolution systems in Armenia, Australia, and Singapore with a goal to help strengthen financial consumer protection in Mongolia and other countries.

Massimiliano Gangi, Jami Hubbard Solli, Jennifer Romero-Torres
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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Case Study

Informed Design: A Case Study Series (Lucy)

The second installment in a new case study series from FinEquity on informed design and digital financial services (DFS). This study examines product and service design by Lucy, a neobank for entrepreneurial women—specifically Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore—providing DFS and business-building tools and training through a mobile app to help them start and grow their businesses. 

Catherine Highet
FinEquity

News & Events

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News

Funding Societies Signs $50M Credit Facility With HSBC to Drive SME Growth in Southeast Asia

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Switzerland and Singapore to Teamup on Fintech

Digital Payments — Not Cash — Is Now King in Asia’s Payment Ecosystem

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