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Beyond the Checkbox: Can We Get Truly Meaningful Consent?
As open finance regimes proliferate, consumer experience frameworks must lay the foundation for consumer empowerment and protection.
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From Informal to Investable
Banks and MFIs have long bypassed women nano-entrepreneurs as too expensive to serve profitably. But by meeting these women inside their trusted savings groups with digital tools, financial institutions are unlocking viable models to reach segments that traditional lending has missed.
As Digitalization Grows, Will Indonesia’s Agent Networks Survive?
Agents form a crucial human bridge between the cash and digital economies for local communities.
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This policy brief shares practical lessons from customer research on women’s saving behavior in Uganda, examining how different empowerment indicators perform in capturing women’s financial behaviors, decision‑making, and outcomes.
Financial Inclusion Community in Conversation: Voices from IF25 and SAM 2025
What was the financial inclusion community talking about in 2025? As a media partner for Inclusive Finance 25 (formerly European Microfinance Week), hosted by e-MFP, and African Inclusive Finance Week (SAM), hosted by ADA, FinDev spoke with participants about the challenges they are grappling with and opportunities they see emerging for the sector.
While mobile money usage has skyrocketed in Nigeria, barriers remain around education, identity and digital access. If these obstacles are overcome, mobile money can become a true catalyst for opportunity and resilience.
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FinDev Gateway hosts publications from over 2,000 organizations. Explore the largest collection of resources on microfinance and financial inclusion including over 8,000 papers, case studies, toolkits and more.
From Resilience to Sustainable Recovery
Risk-based Supervision: Integrating the Supervisory Review of Supplementary Documents Into the Risk Matrix
A financial institution's supplementary documents provide supervisors with valuable insights into risk. Understanding how to use these documents effectively is essential to improving risk-based supervisory practices.
Unpacking Impact to Unlock Scale: Pilot Testing the WASH Impact Indicator Framework
This publication presents the results of Phase III of the WASH Action Group’s work to develop and validate a harmonized WASH impact indicator framework, with a strong focus on real-world feasibility.
FinDev Editor's Collections
The FinDev Editor's Collections provide a selection of resources carefully curated by our experienced editors to provide financial inclusion professionals with a guide to the most relevant and up-to-date insights and analysis on key topics and emerging issues.
News & Events
Keep up with the global microfinance and financial inclusion community. Check out the latest news from across the sector, and an extensive calendar of events and trainings hosted by a wide range of organizations.
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FinDev Webinars
FinDev Webinars enable financial inclusion practitioners to share lessons and attend online presentations and discussions delivered by the world’s leading financial inclusion experts.
Reassessing Microfinance as a Development Tool
Is it time to rethink our approach to microfinance? In this webinar, our panelists explored this critical question and discussed what needs to change for microfinance to be effectively leveraged as a development tool.
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