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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

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. 

Case Study

First Microfinance Institution Syria: Building Resilience Through a Client-Centric Model

Case study in disaster risk reduction and crisis management during a civil war
Paper

2010 Arab Microfinance Analysis & Benchmarking Report

Presenting the latest microfinance trends in the Arab world
Paper

A Simple Poverty Scorecard for Syria

A scorecard to estimate poverty rates and track changes in them over time in Syria
Paper

Microfinance as a Tool for Financing Medical Devices in Syria: An Assessment of Needs and a Call for Further Research

Using microfinance as a tool to support the disabled
Paper

The Significant Demand for Microfinance in Syria

Providing financial services to low-income people
Paper

The General Microfinance Decree: The Syrian Arab Republic

This law authorizes the establishment of "Social Financial Banking Institutions"
Paper

The Role of Remittances in Crisis: An Aceh Research Study

How do remittances help households cope with crises?