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Paper

Financial Inclusion for Migrants and Refugees: Insights From Credit Unions

This report looks at the role credit unions play in supporting migrants and refugees in Brazil, Ecuador, Poland and the United States.

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.

Paper

Lessons for Global Microfinance from… the United States?

Insights into key questions about the future of global microfinance, and specifically the future of policy and subsidy for microfinance, can be gained from an unlikely place: the United States. 

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.

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. 

Paper

Designing Municipal Cash Transfer Programs to Mitigate the Economic Impact of COVID-19

Analyzing public, private, and nonprofit-led responses to the coronavirus through direct cash assistance

Paper

Protecting Beneficiary Data

Guidance for municipal cash transfer programs responding to COVID-19

Paper

Consumer Preferences and the Use of Cash: Evidence from the Diary of Consumer Payments Choice

Discussing the role of cash as a daily payment instrument
Paper

Cash Continues to Play a Key Role in Consumer Spending: Evidence from the Diary of Consumer Payment Choice

Highlighting the role of cash in consumer transactions
Case Study

Single Mothers and the Earned Income Tax Credit: Insurance without Disincentives?

Studying the effects of insurance provided by a U.S. cash transfer program on single mothers