Based on interviews with 46 practitioners across various sectors, this report delineates the contemporary landscape of linkages between informal savings groups and formal financial services.

This brief describes strategies adopted by a broad range of financial service providers to sustainably serve savings group members and other low-income savers.

This note presents the innovation drivers and competencies as key to developing innovative financial services that meet customer needs.

This note summarizes practices and lessons learned from the Savings at the Frontier program on providing funding and technical assistance to financial service providers.

This meta-study explores findings from the savings literature that relate to the key elements used to define financial health, and explores whether they indicate that savings contribute to financial health.

This paper showcases a range of services Savings at the Frontier partner financial service providers have developed, and presents reasons why informal savings mechanisms and their members might find them valuable.

This knowledge review focuses on successes and challenges in building up climate resilience, across three dimensions: disaster preparedness, response, and adaptation to climate change.

Learning from the Savings at the Frontier program

Lessons and best practices from the European Microfinance Award 2020

Impact of VSLAs on women, their families and communities