#FinEquity2026 Annual Convening

About FinEquity Annual Convening

Each year, the FinEquity Annual Convening brings together financial service providers, policymakers, regulators, funders, and other practitioners from around the world to exchange lessons and build the collaboration needed to make financial services work better for women. 

This year, the community will gather around a shared and urgent question: how do we keep gender on the agenda when funding is tight? The event will take place over three days, with one global virtual session and two regional in-person events in Mexico City and Nairobi. 

From regions where access is already high to those where basic access gaps persist, sessions will tackle what it truly takes for financial services to reach women and support their economic lives and resilience. As AI reshapes financial services, the convening will also explore how to ensure it works for women rather than against them.

Day 1 | FinEquity Global | 2 June, 2026 – Virtual
Keeping Gender on the Agenda When Funding Is Tight

Day One will bring the full FinEquity community together around a shared challenge: sustaining progress on women's financial inclusion at a time of growing constraints. 

International aid is in historic decline, budgets across the sector are under pressure, and funders are making hard choices about where their support will go furthest. At the same time, AI is reshaping financial services, bringing new opportunities alongside new demands on institutions already stretched thin. In this environment, how can partnerships and collaboration through communities of practice like FinEquity help institutions do more with less, and ensure women aren't left behind?

We will tackle these questions through plenary discussions, interactive networking, and six parallel workshops. Each workshop examines a different lever for advancing women's financial inclusion in practice, from product design and gender data to financial health, social norms, and AI.

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Day 2 | FinEquity ALC | 3 June, 2026 – Mexico City
Beyond Access: What It Takes to Make Financial Services Work for Women

In Latin America and the Caribbean, nearly 70% of adults now hold a financial account. Access alone is no longer the main barrier. The question now is: what does it take to move beyond access, so that financial services deliver financial health, resilience, and economic opportunity for women?

Day Two will convene the FinEquity ALC community in Mexico City, including stakeholders from the public and private sectors, academia, international organizations, and civil society, to work through that question. Centered on Mexico's experience under the National Financial Inclusion Policy (PNIF) 2025–2030, morning panels will explore how data, innovation, financial education, and cross-sector collaboration are shaping women's financial well-being, and where gaps remain.

Afternoon sessions will turn to practice through a series of interactive, hands-on workshops: transforming financial institutions through a gender lens, measuring women's financial health, expanding access to credit through innovation, and designing behavioral and education interventions that respond to women's realities. 

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Day 3 | FinEquity Africa | 25 June, 2026 – Nairobi
Tackling Africa's Persistent Barriers to Women's Financial Inclusion

In Sub-Saharan Africa, women remain 12 percentage points less likely than men to own a financial account, a gap that more than doubled over the past decade, even as the global gender gap in developing economies narrowed. Many barriers persist, from digital access and restrictive norms to products that don't fit women's lives. What can a community of practitioners, funders, and policymakers do that no single institution can to address these barriers?

The FinEquity Africa community will convene for a half day in Nairobi. Drawing on the latest evidence, including the Global Findex 2025, participants will examine what is working, where gaps remain, and how progress can be accelerated. A smaller workshop will dig into the priorities and partnerships needed to address existing barriers.

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