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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.

Case Study

The Role Regulators Play in Closing the Financial Inclusion Gender Gap: A Case Study of Costa Rica

This case study explores the steps being taken in Costa Rica to increase women's 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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Gender Policy and Practice: Self-Assessments of Microfinance and Enterprise Development Organizations in Latin America

Examining MFI's commitment to gender equity and women's empowerment
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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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Housing Microfinance: Policy Recommendations for Sida's Programs

This paper discusses the lessons learnt from Sida's global experience in housing microfinance
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Agricultural Credit Card Innovation: the Case of Financiera Trisan

Can a credit card used for agricultural input suppliers and rural producers be replicated?
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Imperfect Information, Social Capital and The Poor's Access to Credit

Microfinance institutions gained success through the trust and mutual support of their field workers