Top Five Resources of 2013 on Financial Inclusion of Women
> Posted by Amanda Lotz, Financial Inclusion 2020 Consultant, CFI Tomorrow, people around the world will celebrate International Women’s Day. In honor of the day, and the tremendous impact that...
View ArticleWith 72 Percent of Population with Access, Rwanda Looks Toward 2020 for Next...
> Posted by Jeffrey Riecke, Communications Associate, CFI Rwanda has a lot to celebrate in terms of financial inclusion these days. Last week in Kigali the National Bank of Rwanda (NBR) hosted a...
View ArticleFinancial Inclusion and the World Economic Forum at Davos
> Posted by Jeffrey Riecke, Communications Associate, CFI #461957662 / gettyimages.com Last week global leaders across industries gathered in the tiny mountain town of Davos, Switzerland for the...
View ArticleEffective Regulators Talk to the Private Sector
> Posted by Susy Cheston, Senior Advisor, CFI There was good news from the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) yesterday: the announcement of a partnership with MasterCard Worldwide to build...
View ArticleAre Commercial Banks Ready to Serve the Base of the Pyramid?
> Posted by Susy Cheston, Senior Advisor, CFI Of the 700 million new accounts that the Global Findex reports were opened from 2011 to 2014: Banks and other financial institutions accounted for 550...
View ArticleWhy Does Consumer Protection Lag in Africa?
> Posted by Elisabeth Rhyne, Managing Director, CFI Sub-Saharan African countries may be leading the world in mobile money and growth in access to accounts, but the state of financial consumer...
View ArticleInclusive Policy, Smartphone Financing, Mobile Money and Ebola – The Latest...
> Posted by Center Staff The latest edition of the Financial Inclusion 2020 News Feed, our weekly online magazine sharing the big news in banking the unbanked, is now available. Among the stories in...
View ArticleHappy International Women’s Day!
> Posted by Center Staff Today, around the world individuals, governments, and organizations are celebrating women and calling for increased action towards gender parity, including in the financial...
View ArticleWhat Does Responsible Online and Digital Credit Look Like?
In the following post, John Owens offers an overview of his research project with the CFI Fellows Program. Background & Research Questions More and more online credit providers have started to...
View ArticleFinding a Bhutanese Path to Financial Inclusion
> Posted by Elisabeth Rhyne, Managing Director, CFI Path to Bhutan’s top government offices In 2014, the Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan (RMA), the country’s central bank, made a commitment under...
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