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Fintech for Climate Resilience: A Compendium of Startup Innovations Building Resilience in Emerging Markets

This report by the CIFAR Alliance Investors Working Group highlights 11 successful ventures that are building solutions to improve the resilience of communities susceptible to climate change, enabled by fintech.

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Fintech Lending Risk Barometer 2022-2023

This study is part of a market monitoring exercise to understand the range of risks and how they are perceived by multiple stakeholders in the Indian fintech lending sector.

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Insights From the 2022 Inclusive Fintech 50 Applicant Pool

This report examines data from the 250+ eligible fintech applicants from the fourth Inclusive Fintech 50 competition to better understand the state of early-stage fintechs.

Slide Deck

The Promise of Fintech for Micro and Small Enterprises

This reading deck investigates the potential of technology-enabled business models to provide underserved micro and small enterprises with responsible financial services.

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The Winds of Change- Trends Shaping India’s Fintech Sector: Edition II

This report combines research and expertise to deep dive into seven key trends that continue to shape the fintech industry.

Slide Deck

Banking-as-a-Service: How it Can Catalyze Financial Inclusion

This reading deck provides an analysis of the Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) model, a new business model that enables non-banks to offer banking services under their own brand and seamlessly embedded into their digital offering with four case studies of BaaS providers from Europe, US and Mexico.

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The Impact of Digital Technology and Business Regulations on Financial Inclusion and Socio-Economic Development in Low-Income Countries

This study casts a new angle of linking digital technology and business regulations as drivers of financial inclusion and socioeconomic development.

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The SME Access to Digital Finance Study: A Deep Dive into the Latin American Fintech Ecosystem

This publication provides insights into micro, small and medium enterprises’ access to funding through the alternative finance industry in Latin America based on 540 survey responses from MSMEs in the region.

Slide Deck

Low-Income Financial Services Market Sizing and Fintech Assessment: Kenya Country Report

This slide deck presents research findings estimating the size of the medium and small enterprise and low-income credit markets in Kenya, and assesses the potential of fintech firms to meet the needs of those markets.

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Supervisory Implications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

This Note describes some of the uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning by financial institutions; considers the supervisory responses to such uses; and highlights some ways in which supervisory authorities can themselves use AI and ML to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of supervision.