The Covid-19 global pandemic has heightened the strategic importance of integrating digital channels into how financial services providers engage with customers. How can financial services providers respond to the challenge and find opportunities to remain relevant to low-income women, as they navigate the economic consequences of Covid-19? Digital financial services are the new normal, and for good reason. Financial services providers, governments, and civil society see the benefits of digital […]

Inclusive fintech has always had to find a balance between tech and human touch, but the global pandemic is shifting that balance Tech alone hasn’t been a silver bullet for bringing useful financial tools to low-income people and businesses around the world. That’s why Accion Venture Lab released our 2018 report on the “Tech Touch Balance,” which lays out the continued need for a human touch in delivering financial services to the […]

Around the world we are confronted with a universal pandemic that does not discriminate. An unusual picture of global equality is emerging, engendered by the coronavirus’ brutal treatment of all humans no matter who they are. However, while countries across the globe implement similar measures to fight the virus, we must acknowledge the inequality between nations’ resources and abilities to overcome the impact of a pandemic. Social distancing is a […]

The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to reverse the enormous progress off-grid energy companies have made to bring power to 470 million people in the last decade. The new global economic crisis will make it more difficult for existing customers to pay for their energy services. At the same time, slowed supply chains and reduced investment flows are causing energy companies to run out of cash. Facing dwindling liquidity, these energy companies will […]

BlueOrchard, Developing World Markets, Incofin, Microvest, Oikocredit, responsAbility, Triodos IM, Triple Jump and Symbiotics have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for coordination in response to COVID-19. Together, these nine investment originators and fund managers in impact investing have about USD 15 billion of assets under management, invested in more than 80 emerging and frontier markets across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia and Latin America. Measures […]