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Sowing Sustainable Finance: Making Rural Inclusion a Priority
> Posted by Adrian Merryman, CEO, Small Enterprise Development Agency This post is part of the Center for Financial Inclusion’s Expert Exchange: Building A Movement Toward Financial Inclusion by...
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Financial Engineering for Low-Income Households
> Posted by Bindu Ananth and Amit Shah, President of IFMR Trust and Head of Business Intelligence at IFMR Rural Finance Bindu and Amit co-edited the recently published book Financial Engineering for...
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Microfinance in Azerbaijan: Who is Not Invited to the Party?
> Posted by Bob Bragar, Principal, Strategies for Impact Investors The Investing in Inclusive Finance program at the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion explores the practices of investors in...
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The PISCES Project – Helping Small Enterprises Swim Upstream
> Posted by Elisabeth Rhyne, Managing Director, CFI The following post was originally published on USAID’s microlinks. Elisabeth Rhyne joined USAID shortly after the seminal PISCES (Program of...
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Urbanization, the Informal Economy, and Microfinance
> Posted by Joshua Goldstein, Principal Director for Economic Citizenship & Disability Inclusion, CFI It has always been my unexamined belief that as economies mature the so called “informal...
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Savings Groups, Mobile Phones, and a New Solution for Rural Women
> Posted by Lisa Kienzle, Director, Mobile Financial Services, Grameen Foundation The following post was originally published on the ImpactX blog of the Huffington Post. Women participating in paper...
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China’s Microfinance Landscape: Nonprofits, Microcredit Companies, Rural...
> Posted by Jeffrey Riecke, Communications Associate, CFI #113909912 / gettyimages.com Albeit a relative newcomer to microfinance, China’s market has grown rapidly in recent years. In 2012 the...
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Asia’s Top Country on Financial Inclusion Policy, the Philippines,...
> Posted by Jeffrey Riecke, Communications Associate, CFI #109419838 / gettyimages.com Last week the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) announced substantial increases throughout the country’s...
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Guatemala Rolls Toward Disability Inclusion
> Posted by Jeffrey Riecke, Communications Associate, CFI If you are in a wheelchair in Guatemala, lots of nice people will be willing to carry you up the stairs… But that’s not the point. A recent...
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Banking Services Extended to 300,000 Colombian Coffee Growers
> Posted by Center Staff Yesterday a digital finance event in Bogota hosted by the Colombian government and the Better Than Cash Alliance celebrated a pioneering business-to-business electronic...
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Rural Finance in China, Climate Risk Reduction, Meeting Consumer Expectations...
> Posted by Center Staff Good afternoon! Freshly published is this week’s Financial Inclusion 2020 News Feed, sharing the big news in banking the unbanked. Among its stories are a new partnership...
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Improving Access and Usage of Financial Products and Services in China
> Posted by Julia Arnold, Financial Inclusion Consultant and Sarah Willis, MetLife Foundation MetLife Foundation’s goal is to improve financial inclusion across its footprint, which includes...
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Letter from Mindanao, Part 2: Rural Banking and the Promise of Cacao
> Posted by Bruce MacDonald, Vice President, Communications and Operations, CFI The following post was originally published on NextBillion. In part one of this post, Bruce discussed the potential...
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