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Report: Algorithmic Bias, Financial Inclusion, and Gender: A primer on opening up new credit to women in emerging economies
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are changing financial services offerings to customers across the globe.…
LISTEN NOW: Rapid Innovation: How Fintechs in Africa and Asia are Adapting to COVID-19
The Centre for Financial Inclusion at Accion host the Inclusive Fintech 50 initiative, a yearly…
Global COVID-19 FinTech Market Rapid Assessment Study
Covid-19 has profoundly impacted financial systems across the world, including the provision of digital financial…
Fintech Regulation: How to Achieve a Level Playing Field
How regulation should evolve to encourage fair competition between traditional banks and new fintech and…
Win From Within: How Fintech Startups Can Grow by Building Value for Existing Users
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the realities for inclusive fintech startups and the financially underserved…
Inside the Regulatory Sandbox: Effects on Fintech Funding
The rise of fintechs promises to spur competition in the financial sector. This could lead…
Rapid Innovation: How Fintechs are Adapting Under COVID-19
To understand more about the impact on and the role of these providers, CFI, in…
Leveraging Islamic Fintech to Improve Financial Inclusion
Islamic finance is a fast-booming segment of global finance. Serving a core population of 1.8…
Beyond Credit: 3 Emerging Opportunities for Fintech Startups in the Gig Economy
According to BFA Global’s Catalyst Fund, experts from India and East Africa suggest that fintech…
Impact of Covid-19 on Fintechs
Like other businesses, FinTechs too have been struggling to cope with the Pandemic. The reports…
Inclusive Tech: Overcoming Barriers to Scale in Emerging Markets
Technology undoubtedly has the potential to improve the access, quality and relevance of financial services…
Inclusive FinTechs in Francophone Africa: Benin report
Although in early stages, the upcoming National Financial Inclusion Strategy of Benin will help increase…
FinTech Start-ups in Côte d’Ivoire amid COVID-19: Expectations from the Government and the Regulator
This overview from Microsave gives a unique glimpse of the FinTech ecosystem of Côte d’Ivoire,…
The Global Fintech Index
The Global Fintech Index launched the world’s first real-time ranking of fintech ecosystems and fintech…
Fintech Toolkit: Smart Regulatory and Market Approaches to Financial Technology Innovation
This toolkit presents novel regulatory and market approaches policymakers, regulators, and development professionals can adopt…
Regulating Financial Services in an Era of Technological Disruption
Financial regulators are challenged to respond to the innovation opportunities presented by financial technology (fintech).…
The Global Impact of COVID-19 on Fintech Adoption
This paper draws on mobile application data from 74 countries to document the effects of…
Ghana’s Digital Financial Services Policy
Ghana became the first country to launch a digital financial services (DFS) policy. While the…
Mozambique Annual Fintech Report 2019
This Fintech Report is the first of its kind to be written in Mozambique in…
Golbal Dialogue on Regulatory Approaches for Inclusive FinTech
Financial policymakers and regulators in emerging and developing countries are mindful of the potential that…
Payment Aspects of Financial Inclusion in the Fintech Era
Technological innovation has made major inroads into financial services, especially payments. The pace of innovation…
The Contribution of FinTechs for MSME Development: What can Mozambique Learn from FinTechs in South Africa and Kenya?
This study, the Contribution of Fintechs for MSME Finance was produced by Helder Buvana as…
API Deployments in Inclusive Finance
APIs are often viewed as potential solutions for traditional financial institutions, particularly small and midsize…
Digital Banks: How can they deepen financial inclusion?
New technologies and business models are upending long-established markets across virtually every major sector, including…
Fintech, Regtech and the Role of Compliance Report 2020
The 4th Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence report has been published on fintech, regtech and the…
Fintech Benchmarks Proof-of-Concept Report
Investment capital is flowing into fintech startups, yet it is still challenging to get capital…
The Rise of Challenger Banks – Are the Apps Taking Over?
The banking sector is experiencing a major shift globally, as Challenger Banks are becoming increasingly…
Global Fintech Index 2020 Rankings Report
This is the first index designed to rank fintech activity globally, to understand the scale…
A FinTech Strategy for Ireland
This document aims to set the scene with a definition of FinTech and an overview…
Deciphering the Trillion-valued Unicorn – Ant Financial
World Bank rated Ant Financial as the most valuable fintech company worldwide in their 2019…
Fintech Development and Regulatory Frameworks in Indonesia
This paper from the ABDI Institute showcases the growth as well as the challenging factors…
The Fintech Landscape in Rwanda
This report by UNCDF provides findings and proposed recommendations from an assessment of the fintech…
Designing fintech solutions for inclusion
Part of the mandate of BFA’s Catalyst Fund is to share insights and lessons learned…
Examining the financial regulation of consumer-facing fintech in India
The excitement around fintech in India is palpable. This enthusiasm can be attributed to fintech’s…
The Suptech Generations
Financial authorities’ use of technology has evolved over the years, leading to different generations of…
World FinTech Report 2019
The World FinTech Report 2019 from Capgemini and Efma explores how the future is moving…
The Rise of Digital Money
This paper from IMF marks the launch of a new IMF series, Fintech Notes. Building…
FinTech in Financial Inclusion: Machine Learning Applications in Assessing Credit Risk
Recent advances in digital technology and big data have allowed FinTech (financial technology) lending to…
FinTechs in Sub-Saharan Africa
FinTechs in Europe, North America and Asia have caught the attention of many financial institutions…
Java, Python or Kotlin for Fintech?
There are many different development languages being used by Fintechs. This blog post explores the…
LISTEN NOW: Inclusive Fintech: What we learned from 400 early-stage companies
The Inclusive Fintech 50 initiative, funded by MetLife Foundation and Visa, with support from Accion…
Inclusive Fintech 50: White Paper on findings
Fintech investment is booming. In 2018, a record USD 111.8 billion was invested in fintech,…
FinTech for Financial Inclusion: A Framework for Digital Financial Transformation
The full potential of FinTech for financial inclusion may be realized with a strategic framework…
Fintech founders up close
This series of videos from Accion gives an insight into the mind and experience of…
FinTech: The Experience So Far
The Bali Fintech Agenda (BFA) was approved last year by the IMF and World Bank Group.…
EY Global Fintech Adoption Index 2019
FinTech has evolved in significant ways since the publication of the first global EY FinTech Adoption…
LISTEN NOW: The FinTech Stack
In this exclusive webinar, Ignacio Mas, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Digital Frontiers Institute (DFI), …
Fintechs and Financial Inclusion
Fintechs are innovating at every step of the financial services value chain, often through new…
Microfinance Institutions: Prospects for B2B FinTechs?
This well researched blog post by Mondato summaries the evolution and future for microfinance and the challenges…
The Growth of FinTech
This infographic outlines the growth if FinTech and gives an overview of the FinTech landscape, their…
The ICAEW Economic Update: Quarterly Economic Forecast
ICAEW produce quarterly economic forecasts and insights for global regions for those in the finance…
LISTEN NOW: Smart Banknotes and the Future of Money
Must we pit digital money against hard cash? Must we swear our loyalty to one…
FinTech in Sub-Saharan African Countries : A Game Changer?
FinTech is a major force shaping the structure of the financial industry in sub-Saharan Africa.…
Early Lessons on Regulatory Innovations to Enable Inclusive FinTech
The United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGA) published a report…
Impact of digital finance on financial inclusion and stability
This article provides a discussion on some issues associated with digital finance – an area…
Global Microscope 2018: The Enabling Environment for Financial Inclusion and the Expansion of Digital Financial Services
The 2018 Global Microscope shows countries in Latin America and Asia have the most conducive…
FinTech ecosystem playbook
The FinTech ecosystem playbook gives you a panoramic view of a FinTech ecosystem in emerging…
The future of FinTech and financial services: what’s the next big bet?
As a result of debates and discussion, the insights gathered were placed into the following…
The Tech Touch Balance
This report explores the combination between technology and the human side of customers and their…
Fintech, Inclusive Growth and Cyber Risks: Focus on the MENAP and CCA Regions
Financial technology (fintech) is emerging as an innovative way to achieve financial inclusion and the…
Is our Gender and Digital Financial Services course for you?
As part of our ongoing work to improve financial inclusion across gender lines, Digital Frontiers…
Toward Universal Financial Inclusion in China : Models, Challenges, and Global Lessons
China has achieved remarkable success in financial inclusion. China’s rate of account ownership – a…
LISTEN NOW: Establishing Digital Finance as a Profession.
This webinar, led by Juliet Monroe, Director of Financial Systems, FSDA and Gavin Krugel, DFI,…
Mapping the DFS Ecosystem with a Fintech Stack
The purpose of this paper, Mapping the DFS Ecosystem with a FinTech Stack, is to present…
Beyond Fintech: A Pragmatic Assessment Of Disruptive Potential In Financial Services
For years Fintech has been the hottest topic of discussion in financial services, with incumbents,…
How Financial Institutions and Fintechs Are Partnering for Inclusion: Lessons from the Frontlines
This report examines how partnerships between mainstream financial institutions (e.g., banks, insurers, and payment companies)…
How Fintech is Reaching the Poor in Africa and Asia: A Start-Up Perspective
This note produced by IFC explores the way traditional banks and financial technology companies, or…
From FinTech to TechFin: The Regulatory Challenges of Data-Driven Finance
Financial technology (‘FinTech’) is transforming finance and challenging its regulation at an unprecedented rate. Two…
Blurred lines: How FinTech is shaping Financial Services
It is difficult to imagine a world without the internet or mobile devices. They have…
The World FinTech Report 2017
Backed by a survey of more than 8,000 customers in 15 countries, as well as…
The Rise of FinTech in China Redefining Financial Services
A collaborative report from EY and DBS Bank shares lessons to be learned from the…
Digital Disruption – How Fintech is forcing banking to a tipping point
Investments in financial technology have growth exponentially in the past decade — rising from $1.8…
How money remittance has leapfrogged Africa’s financial industry
Africa presents a minefield of opportunity for fintech companies due to the lack of legacy infrastructure. The formal market…
The Digital Disruption Battlefield
Digital technology has already transformed several industries, not only by digitalising the sales process but,…
Blockchain Trends & Applications
This insights post explores the trends within blockchain and which corporates are investing in blockchain.
Cutting Through the FinTech Noise: Markers of Success, Imperatives For Banks
Banking has historically been one of the business sectors most resistant to disruption by technology.…
The Evolution of Fintech: A New Post-Crisis Paradigm?
“FinTech”, a contraction of “Financial technology”, refers to technology enabled financial solutions. It is often…
Global Standard-Setting Bodies and Financial Inclusion: The Evolving Landscape
The March 2016 GPFI White Paper, builds on the considerable progress in recent years in integrating…