FinEquity and DSG Hub collaboration on Digitization of Savings Groups
FinEquity shares details of its collaboration with DSG Hub, to support the digitization of savings groups, a key priority for FinEquity stakeholders, in particular in Africa.
Saving to Build Resilience: At Odds With Saving for Future Goals?
New research takes a look at how formal savings accounts can help people manage financial risks as well as accumulate savings for the future.
How Can Small Scale Savings Be Offered Sustainably?
After six years of implementation, Scale2Save shares a number of lessons learned around the key drivers they identified for viable business models and the institutional factors that affect an FSP’s ability to offer low-balance savings products.
Guide to Inclusive Savings
In honor of World Savings Day, 31 October, this resource guide provides a curated list of recent work on inclusive savings solutions for low-income customers.
Digital Transformation: Who Is in the Driver's Seat?
The role of executive leadership is key for microfinance institutions to move successfully towards the digital future.
How Do Savings Contribute to Financial Health?
A meta-review leads to two mental shifts in approaches to savings research.
Digital Innovation: Three Key Lessons to Improve the Resilience of African MFIs and Their Clients
Takeaways from the African Microfinance Week (SAM) on overcoming the challenges and risks associated with digital transformation
How an Ethiopian MFI Has Kept Its Focus on Savings in the Face of Great Challenges
Teshome Dayesso, co-founder and CEO of Buusaa Gonofaa, discusses his MFI's savings journey and the challenges they have faced over the past year due to the pandemic and political uncertainty.
What the Pandemic Taught Us About Savings
Muktinath Bikas Bank offers eight different savings products, specially designed for rural and low-income people in Nepal. The 2020 European Microfinance Award winner shares their experience with savings from before and during the pandemic.
After the Storm: How Microfinance Can Adapt and Thrive
There has been a need for traditional microfinance to face the challenge presented by digital technology for some time, COVID has simply accelerated this process.