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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. 

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Microfinance Institutions in Central Asia: Benchmarks and Analysis 2005

Impact that policy has had on the development of microfinance sector in the Central Asian republics
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The Role of Remittances in Crisis: An Aceh Research Study

How do remittances help households cope with crises?
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Developing and Testing Poverty Assessment Tools: Results From Accuracy Tests in Kazakhstan

Have poverty assessment tools been successful in estimating the poverty in Kazakhstan?
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Kazakhstan's Microfinance Law: Opportunities and Future Challenges

The essay elaborates on two regulations in Kazakhstan, relating to MFI's strategic planning
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Down-Scaling Commercial Banks into MFIs: A Case Study from Kazakhstan

Leveraging pre-existing infrastructures in commercial banking to tackle poverty through microfinance
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Microfinance in Kazakhstan: An Inclusive Financial Sector for All

Towards establishing a firm base for microfinance in Kazakhstan