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The Role of Data in Inclusive Insurance
This paper identifies five ways in which data trails are being leveraged by private sector actors, including insurance carriers and technology providers, to offer “inclusive insurance” for low-income and other excluded segments, such as rural small-holder farmers and gig workers.
2022 Trends in International Funding for Financial Inclusion
The 2022 CGAP Funder Survey looks at the latest trends in international funding for financial inclusion. Understanding the funding landscape can support better funding decisions and coordination, and ultimately lead to better outcomes for underserved people worldwide.
Leveraging Transactional Data for Micro and Small Enterprise Lending
This case study examines the data and experience of two fintechs in India that use different sets of transactional data for credit scoring.
The Building Blocks Supporting Open Finance
This working paper introduces the concept of an inclusive data ecosystem as one where low-income people’s data trails are used to improve their financial inclusion.
Supply-Side Gender Disaggregated Data for Advancing Financial Inclusion
This paper explores how supply-side gender-disaggregated data has been collected and used, mainly by financial sector authorities but also by providers, and the challenges and opportunities associated with this work.
Applying Privacy by Design to Inclusive Finance Product Design
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.
Moving Markets Towards Open Finance
This paper summarizes open finance policy approaches globally, as well as the ways that government-controlled financial data can help catalyze open finance where industry is hesitant to lead.
The Gender Data Playbook for Women's Financial Inclusion
This playbook offers a step-by-step guide for financial ecosystem stakeholders on how to boost the systematic collection of high-quality, supply-side, sex-disaggregated financial data to drive women’s financial inclusion.
2021 Trends in International Funding for Financial Inclusion
CGAP’s annual Funder Survey breaks down financial inclusion funding data to offer new intelligence about who’s doing what and where—insights that could be used to inform future development programming and ultimately impact the lives of people living in poverty.
Business Intelligence: A Bedrock of Successful Digitization in Microfinance
Microfinance institutions that successfully generate value for their business and customers through digitization anchor these efforts in business intelligence. This Technical Note outlines an approach for improving business intelligence with interventions that require minimum or no investment in technology.