This strategy will guide CFI’s work through 2024 and focuses on four thematic areas. All of them, to significant degrees, have either been exacerbated by...

Women's Financial Inclusion

Apr 22, 2021

Leveraging Digital Financial Capability to Drive Women’s Financial Inclusion

Informed and empowered men and women make fewer risky financial decisions than those with less knowledge. And for a low-income...

Mar 29, 2021

What Does It Take for a Woman to Become Financially Capable?

Jan 28, 2021

The Case for a Gender-Intelligent Approach: An Opportunity for Inclusive Fintechs

Feb 4, 2021

Revisiting Building Financial Capability with a Gender Lens

Data Risks and Opportunities

May 25, 2021

Reducing Bias in Algorithmic Decisions Cannot Rely on “Blind” Approaches

When Goldman Sachs came under fire for offering women lower lines of credit than men on the now infamous Apple...

Mar 4, 2021

Rethinking Financial Inclusion at the Data Margins

Mar 31, 2021

The Stories Algorithms Tell: Bias and Financial Inclusion at the Data Margins

Apr 1, 2021

Regulatory Headwinds on the Horizon for Chinese Fintechs: Where Do Consumers Fit In?

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Weathering the Storm II

Case studies about microfinance institutions emerging from crises

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HBS-Accion Program on Strategic Leadership in Inclusive Finance

Shaping the next generation of inclusive finance leaders

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Board Leardership for Impact

Board effectiveness executive education for social enterprise leaders

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Financial Inclusion Equity Council

A forum for financial inclusion equity investors

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COVID-19 and MSMEs: Data and Analysis to Understand Impact

What is the scale of impact of COVID-19 on MSMEs, and how are they coping?

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Policy Responses to COVID-19 and Their Impacts on Low-Income Customers

A series of policy briefs on efforts by national governments around the world to mitigate the economic impacts of COVID-19...

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Reflecting on the Smart Campaign: Lessons Learned

Looking back on a decade of consumer protection work

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Global Microscope

The enabling environment for financial inclusion

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Data Protection and Financial Inclusion: Why It Matters

Delving into consent, alternative data, localization, and regulatory capacity and fragmentation

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Keeping Clients First

Keeping focus on who matters most in financial inclusion

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Financial Inclusion 101

What is financial inclusion? Microfinance? Financial capability? Get smart about basic common concepts and core reading.

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COVID-19 & MSMEs: Data and Analysis to Understand Impact

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CFI's Strategy

Guiding our Work Through 2024

Crisis and Opportunity: Reimagining Inclusive Finance After the Pandemic

Women's Financial Inclusion

Leveraging Digital Financial Capability to Drive Women’s Financial Inclusion

What Does It Take for a Woman to Become Financially Capable?

The Case for a Gender-Intelligent Approach: An Opportunity for Inclusive Fintechs

Revisiting Building Financial Capability with a Gender Lens

Data Risks and Opportunities

Reducing Bias in Algorithmic Decisions Cannot Rely on “Blind” Approaches

Rethinking Financial Inclusion at the Data Margins

The Stories Algorithms Tell: Bias and Financial Inclusion at the Data Margins

Regulatory Headwinds on the Horizon for Chinese Fintechs: Where Do Consumers Fit In?

Financial Inclusion Week

Weathering the Storm II

Programs

HBS-Accion Program on Strategic Leadership in Inclusive Finance

Board Leardership for Impact

Financial Inclusion Equity Council

View all programs

Our Partners

Series

COVID-19 and MSMEs: Data and Analysis to Understand Impact

Policy Responses to COVID-19 and Their Impacts on Low-Income Customers

Reflecting on the Smart Campaign: Lessons Learned

Global Microscope

Data Protection and Financial Inclusion: Why It Matters

Keeping Clients First

Financial Inclusion 101

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