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Assessing the Impact of Al-Amal Microfinance Bank’s Green Finance Practices on Client-Level Socioeconomic and Environmental Outcomes in Yemen
This study examines the extent to which Al-Amal Microfinance Bank (AMB) has adopted green finance practices and assesses the measurable socioeconomic and environmental outcomes associated with these practices in Yemen during 2023–2025.
Impact of International Recognition on the Institutional Development of Yemeni Microfinance Banks: A Qualitative Case Study of Al-Amal Microfinance Bank (AMB)
This qualitative single-case study therefore investigates the impact of international recognition on the institutional development of Al-Amal Microfinance Bank.
Advisory Note 1: M-CRIL's Microscopic View of Responsible Financing Practices in Cambodia
Based on research with 15 financial service providers and 585 borrowers across nine provinces in Cambodia, this first advisory note highlights five priority areas for strengthening responsible finance practices, with evidence-based recommendations.
AI-Powered Suptech for Financial Inclusion: How Emerging Market Authorities Can Unlock Its Potential
AI-powered SupTech offers financial sector authorities in emerging markets and developing economies a timely opportunity to strengthen supervision, improve efficiency, and advance financial inclusion. This brief explores how authorities can adopt these tools responsibly through five priority recommendations.
Artificial Intelligence and Open Finance
This paper examines the interplay of AI innovation with data-sharing environments, highlighting mutually reinforcing benefits alongside increased complexity, trade-offs and amplified risks. It also explores a forward-looking theoretical scenario of agentic AI in an environment of growing data-sharing.
Building Financial Resilience Against Digital Risk
The findings in this learning brief draw on the Strive Women Midline Survey, conducted by 60 Decibels, which measured how women micro and small enterprise owners across Pakistan, Vietnam, and Peru experience and respond to digital financial risk and fraud.
Canada's Sustainable Finance Taxonomy
In this podcast episode the Chair of Toronto Centre's Securities Advisory Board and the Chair of the Canadian Taxonomy and Transition Planning Council discuss Canada’s proposed framework, the importance of international alignment and cross-border collaboration, the role of the taxonomy in mobilizing investment and supporting climate-related risk oversight, and the role of financial regulators and supervisors.
Financial Services as Infrastructure for Women’s Empowerment and Carbon Integrity
Microfinance and Poverty Reduction: Promise, Pitfalls, and the Zimbabwean Experience
This paper critically examines the impact and role of microfinance on poverty reduction, drawing on global literature and contextual insights from Zimbabwe’s evolving financial landscape.
Policyholder Protection Schemes in a Climate-Stressed World
This TC Note and podcast provide practical guidance for supervisors in emerging economies on policyholder protection in the face of rising climate-related risks and the evolving links between catastrophes and insurer failure.