Announcing Chancen International, Fundación Paraguaya, and iFarmer Ltd. as the three finalists who will go on to compete for the EUR 100,000 prize!

01F Group has invested in DANA, Indonesia’s leading digital wallet, to expand credit access for MSMEs and scale digital financial services across Tier 2 to Tier 4 regions.

Under the agreement, IFC will share credit settlement risk for Visa transactions associated with enrolled financial institutions, enabling these institutions to connect more underbanked consumers and small businesses to digital payments.

The new IFC initiative initially provides up to $700 million in guarantees to cover a portion of the credit settlement risk, thus enabling more institutions to offer innovative and reliable digital payment services to more customers, including small business owners, women entrepreneurs, and people historically shut out of the formal financial system.

Inaugural forum from Singapore's Responsible Fintech Institute, title-sponsored by Remi Technology, puts AI, stablecoins and financial inclusion on a single agenda.

New Microfinance Centre’s report shows that millions of entrepreneurs across the EU still cannot get the small loans they need to start or grow their businesses.

The eighth edition of the CAF Financial Inclusion Lab (LIF) will select up to eight projects, which will gain access to acceleration and investment-readiness programs, as well as opportunities to connect with investors, financial institutions and other strategic partners.

By leveraging innovative risk management mechanisms, this transaction will help increase the availability of credit for companies with the potential to grow, invest, and create jobs.

A special issue of Economies, an international peer-reviewed open access journal published by MDPI, invites research exploring how geographic and territorial factors shape financial inclusion and economic development. 

The transaction features a novel structure, combining funding provided by institutional investor M&G Investments Ltd, benefiting from a guarantee provided by GuarantCo, with uncovered funding provided by impact funds advised by Symbiotics Asset Management.