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Filter PostsMaking Digitization Work for Clients Starts With Client Engagement
As the Smart Campaign winds down, we examine what we’ve learned about developing tools for listening to clients, raising awareness about their rights and responsibilities in financial services, and how to empower vulnerable consumers to avoid threats like fraud. This is the second in a series of blog posts about CFI’s experience working with FSPs, regulators, and investors on consumer protection, and highlighting opportunity areas for each stakeholder group.
FSPs Adopt Client Protection: A Look Back, A Look Ahead
As the Smart Campaign winds down, we examine a decade of financial service provision guided by our consumer protection tools and discuss the evolution of consumer protection in light of disruptive digitization. This is the first in a series of blog posts about CFI’s experience working with FSPs, regulators, and investors on consumer protection, and highlighting opportunity areas for each stakeholder group.
Four Reflections on the COVID e-MFP Compass
The crowd is wise. Priorities may differ. Concerns have been assuaged. Opportunities are abundant. After reviewing and responding, Mayada El-Zoghbi offers her takeaways from this timely survey and analysis.
Microfinance Coalition, MIVs Team Up in Response to COVID-19
Investors answer the call by collaborating with the Microfinance Coalition. Below are tangible benefits of that collaboration.
DFIs, COVID-19 and Financial Inclusion: A Conversation with Richard Greenberg of DFC
This is the first of an occasional series of interviews with professionals from development finance institutions supporting inclusive finance during these difficult times.
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One Billion Accounts in the Pandemic Era: Insights from GSMA’s Mobile Money Report
We recap key takeaways from the report as well as steps that must be taken to leverage the growth of mobile money to help mitigate the impact of the pandemic on both individuals and businesses.
The Digital Payments Push: What 50 Micro-Merchants in India Are Saying
Micro-merchants face challenges adopting digital payment modes, but the trend toward digital payments will continue and perhaps accelerate due to the pandemic. It’s imperative that enablers, service providers and the government resolve critical cash-to-digital barriers.
Are Moratoriums Good for Clients?
Moratoriums are a popular policy remedy during the COVID-19 era, but different client circumstances call for different types of moratoriums -- or even none at all.
Food Security and COVID-19: How Financial Inclusion Can Support Livelihoods
Because of the pandemic, starvation might threaten an additional 250-plus million people in low and middle-income countries. SME financing, cash transfer programs and financial inclusion of women may boost food security for the most vulnerable.
Stress Testing in Crisis: Helping Savings and Credit Cooperatives in Mexico During COVID-19
Portfolio support could help the millions of customers who rely on cooperatives get through the pandemic. This post sets the context, explains a stress testing model developed by BFA Global, and offers insights.
Fintech’s Next Big Ideas Might Be Discovered Remotely
The absence of face-to-face meetings poses yet another challenge for matching fintech startups with investors. Here are some ways the community is adapting.
COVID-19 Reveals the Limits of Individual Action and Market-Based Solutions
To be better equipped to understand the impact of shocks such as COVID-19 on the lives of the BOP, we need to understand critical variables such as income, wealth and safety nets.
Gender Gap Narrowing “Bank Sakhis” Take Crucial G2P Support the Last Mile During COVID-19
Though COVID-19 has presented challenges to their operations, these female banking agents are front line heroes who've also provided a World Bank team with COVID-related, data driven insights.
How Should Investors Coordinate When Time is of the Essence?
With so many cooks in the kitchen, a coordinated COVID-19 response is essential to supporting the needs of base-of-pyramid clients.
Microfinance Coalition: Call to Action for Policymakers
How policymakers can support MFIs and their clients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Microfinance Coalition: Call to Action for Donors
How donors can support MFIs and their clients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stronger Together: Why MIX and the Center for Financial Inclusion are Joining Forces
The CFI-MIX integration is a powerful means to preserve gains both organizations have made for inclusive finance, and to position them to tackle new challenges in a sector going through profound structural change.
Microfinance Coalition: Call to Action for Investors
How investors can support MFIs and their clients during the coronavirus pandemic.