PARTNER HIGHLIGHTS
HAS FINTECH CLOSED THE CREDIT GAP? NOT BY A LONG SHOT
By Gabriel Davel A loan from an agrifinance institution enabled this coffee co-op in Uganda to train its employees...
HOW CAN DIGITAL FINANCE SUPPORT AGRICULTURE? USING ALTERNATIVE DATA SOURCES TO SUPPORT CONSUMER PROTECTION
By Laura Caron Background & Opportunities for Digital Finance in Agriculture. Many rural and peri-urban smallholder farmers and agribusinesses...
REVISITING OUR ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT DIGITAL FINANCIAL INCLUSION: THREE UNEXPECTED FINDINGS FROM BFA’s FIBR PROJECT
By David Porteous BFA is about to conclude our FIBR (Financial Inclusion on Business Runways) Project, an innovative...
WHAT OUR PARTNERS SAY
“The Investor Guidelines are very important for investors who are looking at the digital finance space…to mitigate and manage the risks and investment opportunities.”
Imtiaz Khan Cassia Capital Partners
“We created a financial literacy program…Success will be the continued digital nativeness of the customer.”
Michael Nyaga Equity Bank
“Central to financial inclusion is to promote an enabling environment that protects consumers on the one hand, and fosters innovation and competitive markets on the other.”
David Ashiagbor Making Finance Work for Africa Partnership at the AfDB
“We are still in the Wild West with regards to data privacy, data protection, which data shall be used in a commercial way…this needs a lot of attention.”
Wolfgang Bücker GIZ
Industry Insights
DIGITAL IDENTITIES IN FINANCIAL SERVICES PART 2: RESPONSIBLE DIGITAL IDENTITIES, THE KEY TO CREATING MORE INCLUSIVE ECONOMIES
Financial service providers have an important and ever-increasing role in emerging digital identity ecosystems. The authors investigate the potential...
A2ii: 10 YEARS ON
In the 10 years since the Access to Insurance Initiative (A2ii) was established in 2009, the world has seen...
DISASTER RISK FINANCE – A TOOLKIT
The purpose of this disaster risk toolkit is to provide practical guidance on how to choose which disaster risk...
