This year’s event will present an industry-wide opportunity to reflect on how the inclusive finance sector has evolved over the past decade and what we need to do next to serve the nearly 2 billion people that remain excluded from the formal financial system. 

Amid the enthusiasm to expand and scale digital public infrastructure (DPI) models to dozens of new markets, this report explores the opportunities for DPI to be built and deployed responsibly for three fundamental elements of financial inclusion: identity (ID), payments, and consent-based data exchanges. 

Registration is now open for the annual Responsible Finance Forum (RFF) event, convened by the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, which will take place July 2-3, 2024 in Fortaleza, Brazil. 

This report explores how strategically adding friction to digital financial services can benefit both lenders and borrowers.

This brief is intended for inclusive finance practitioners, discussing three key challenges for implementation of CFI's Privacy as Product playbook and attempts addressing these challenges.

This playbook, first-of-its-kind for the inclusive finance sector, aims to fill that gap and demonstrate a comprehensive way to integrate responsible data practices into the design process.

This report examines existing evidence on the impact of cash transfers on intimate partner violence against women and proposes design approaches to mitigate and minimize those risks.

This research presents some of the key challenges with building accountability and transparency for AI in inclusive finance.

This publication gives an overview of the use cases of AI in inclusive finance and some of the drivers of harmful AI bias towards women.

CFI invites members of the inclusive finance community to submit proposals for conversations, debates, panels, videos, and other types of creative sessions that raise hard questions about how the inclusive finance community can adapt while keeping consumers at the center.