From Diamond Future to Cool Teens to SWAG: Designing Financial Products for Young People
Adaeze Ume of Nigeria’s Diamond Bank talks about how and why Diamond Bank works with young clients, and shares insights on banking youth throughout their lifecycle.
More Than Just a House: Building Sustainable Homes for Rural Communities in Mexico
Interview with European Microfinance Award winner, Cooperativa de Ahorro y Préstamo Tosepantomin, about their sustainable housing program for rural indigenous communities.
How Can We Improve Education with DFS+?
Proposing digital payment solutions to help keep teachers in classrooms in Niger
Getting Inclusion Right: What Will It Take?
To kick off Financial Inclusion Week 2018, we sat down with Beth Rhyne, Managing Director of the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion (CFI), to hear her thoughts on this year's theme, Getting Inclusion Right, and CFI's 10th anniversary.
Getting It Right: Learning About Savings
Five key questions we have (partially) answered so far at the Savings Learning Lab
Gateway Guide to Blockchain
These days, it seems like everyone is talking about the revolutionary potential of blockchain. But do such proclamations sometimes have you scratching your head, wishing you understood what blockchain actually is? In this Gateway Guide we start with the ABCs: What is blockchain and why should I care?
Could Blockchain Help Emerging Markets Leapfrog Traditional Technologies?
Leveraging distributed ledger technology to promote financial inclusion and sustainable development
Closing the “Blockchain for Development” Evidence Gap
Have we formed unrealistic expectations for this new technology?
Making the Gender Gap Visible
Parsing through mountains of financial inclusion data to find meaningful patterns to advance women’s financial inclusion is overwhelming. CGAP’s Women’s Financial Inclusion Community of Practice guides you through the data.
Women’s Empowerment Indicators
Unlike other data sources, FII data has a dedicated gender module measuring women’s economic empowerment, which aims to assess whether women's access to finance results in empowerment.