Financial Inclusion Week 2026
Registration for FIW 2026 Now Open!
Registration is now open for the 12th annual Financial Inclusion Week, hosted by the Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI). FIW is a free, fully virtual global event that convenes thousands of practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and innovators from around the world. Join this important global conversation and engage with the ideas, innovations, and perspectives shaping the future of inclusive finance.
About Financial Inclusion Week 2026
Convened by the Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI), the 12th annual FIW virtual global forum will take place October 5-8, 2026.
Financial Inclusion Week (FIW) features four days of live and on-demand content featuring 300+ expert speakers. Thousands of active participants gather to exchange ideas, research, and perspectives on how to advance the future of inclusive finance.
Financial Inclusion Week is fully virtual and free to attend. The agenda is curated from session proposals submitted from across the sector. FIW features:
- 4 days of live sessions covering topics including climate, technology-led innovation, women’s financial inclusion, financial well-being, financial education, savings and insurance, and more
- An extensive on-demand content library including presentations, provider postcards, and panel discussions
- 300+ expert speakers
- AI-powered translation in 60+ languages for live and on-demand content
- Regional live sessions from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East in local time zones for each respective region
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FIW 2026 Theme
Inclusive Innovation: Building Financial Systems that Work for Everyone
Today’s emerging technologies hold the promise of delivering exciting gains for the work of the financial inclusion sector, but without an intentional and responsible approach to adoption, we risk leaving out of this promise those who remain most vulnerable. Many of today’s rapidly evolving technologies and innovations come with risks for consumers as well as challenges for those seeking to test solutions.
We are at a moment of learning, experimenting, and implementing as a sector. The 12th annual Financial Inclusion Week will convene on October 5-8, 2026, bringing together the financial inclusion community to explore how innovation and inclusion go hand in hand. FIW will also examine how being customer centric and responsible in adopting innovative solutions can enable financial health and build systems that ensure no one is left behind.
2026 Regional Partners
In 2025, CFI expanded the reach and impact of FIW with the introduction of FIW +, featuring regional partnerships across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This led to dedicated regional plenaries and in-person engagements to drive collaboration and relationship building in these regions. This year, regional partners will help drive regional participation in FIW by helping shape the regional agenda and hosting in-person FIW gatherings in their respective regions.
FAQs
FIW 2026 will take place October 5-8, 2026.
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FIW is a virtual event and is free to attend. Sign up for email updates to receive the latest information of registration and event details.
The open call for Financial Inclusion Week (FIW) 2026 session proposals has now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted proposals and contributed ideas to help shape this year’s conversations. Selected FIW sessions will be announced soon. Stay tuned for registration details and further updates on Financial Inclusion Week 2026.
CFI invites organizations to support FIW and help drive forward the critical conversations to advance inclusive finance. Sponsors help maintain FIW as a free event for our global community and benefit from visibility on their contributions to inclusive finance. Contact center@accion.org for more information.
Session organizers may use this FIW logo in accordance with branding guidelines only for the design of their session banners. All other uses of the logo need to be pre-approved by CFI. Please contact FIW2026-ext@accion.org with your request.
Please send any inquiries about FIW to center@accion.org.
Yes. Session organizers, FIW speakers, and regional partners will receive a media toolkit to support and enhance their promotional efforts for FIW. For any questions regarding branding or logo usage, you may email fiw2026-ext@accion.org.
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Thanks to the generous support of our event sponsors, Financial Inclusion Week is free to attend. Sponsors support the critical conversations that take place each year and help inform the agenda.
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