- Michelle W Bowman: Welcoming remarks - "Unleashing a financially inclusive future"
Speech · 30 July 2025
Michelle Bowman emphasized the Federal Reserve’s commitment to advancing financial inclusion by supporting innovation, improving access to affordable financial services, and ensuring that regulation…
- Gent Sejko: Role of the banking industry in the future development of Albania - challenges and opportunities
Speech · 3 June 2019
He stresses that, despite solid growth and profitability, banks must be more proactive in lending to support sustainable economic growth, taking advantage of improved legal and NPL frameworks while…
- Michael S Barr: Remarks at the "Banking on Financial Inclusion" conference
Speech · 8 February 2023
Speaking at an HBCU during Black History Month, Barr reflects on 25 years of work with Hope Enterprise, underscoring how CDFIs and the CRA have enabled capital to reach communities long excluded from…
- Moov Africa Burkina Faso Aligns With Government Vision to Accelerate Digital and Financial Inclusion
News · 5 November 2025
The company committed to expanding mobile-money services, improving digital connectivity, and developing tools that help underserved populations access financial services more easily. These efforts…
- FinTech and Digital Financial Services Ecosystem Data for Supervision and Market Intelligence
Report · 1 January 2024
This Guideline Note establishes that understanding the dFS and Fintech ecosystem typology is essential. it introduces a baseline Fintech taxonomy as a representation of the ecosystem within the AFi…
- Global financial leaders to convene for Financial Inclusion Week (FIW) 2025
Event · 6 October 2025
Registration is now open for Financial Inclusion Week 2025, a free virtual forum hosted by the Center for Financial Inclusion from 6–9 October. Now in its 11th year, FIW 2025 will bring together…
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) note reviews technology solutions for central bank digital currency (CBDC) limited connectivity
Report · 7 August 2025
The IMF has published a note exploring CBDC implementation in environments with limited connectivity, emphasising offline solutions to enhance financial inclusion. The report examines scenarios…
- Live Panel: Suptech Inclusiveness and Competition
Video · 25 November 2022
The panel on Suptech inclusiveness and competiton focused on how supervisors in organizations that haven’t undergone digital transformation can compete with other digitally-savvy competitors. Our…
- NBR Financial Inclusion Dashboard
Solution · 19 March 2025
The dashboard provides comprehensive insights into the country's financial access landscape. Updated weekly with data from various financial institutions including banks, microfinance institutions…
- Nigerian Women's Financial Inclusion Dashboard
Solution · 13 November 2024
The Nigerian Women’s Financial Inclusion Dashboard (NWFID) is a data-driven suptech solution that provides real-time, gender-disaggregated insights into the use of financial products and services…
- Financial Technology and the Transmission of Monetary Policy: The Role of Social Networks
Report · 30 March 2022
Financial technology-based (FinTech) lending is expected to ease U.S. mortgage market frictions that have weakened the transmission of monetary policy to households. This paper establishes that…
- Outreach and Efficiency of Inclusive Banking Through Technology in Tamil Nadu
Report · 21 April 2023
Financial inclusion is one of the means for overall economic development of a country. The growth of the retail banking industry fosters financial inclusion by providing financial products and…
- E-Payment Technology and Business Finance: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Mobile Money
Report · 14 November 2019
We conducted a randomized controlled trial with small and medium-sized enterprises in Kenya to estimate the causal impact of an e-payment technology on business finance. Using an encouragement…
- Epidemic Exposure, Financial Technology, and the Digital Divide
29 September 2021
We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage and who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for…
- Islamic Banking Growth, Role of Information Technology in Cost Optimization and Operational Excellence
6 December 2013
The aim of this study is to establish the role of information technology in growth of Islamic banking. The role of information technology in enhancing advancement of several industries has dominated…
- Decentralized Finance: Blockchain Technology and the Quest for an Open Financial System
Report · 12 July 2019
Blockchain technology can reduce transaction costs, facilitate decentralized platforms, and produce distributed trust, creating a foundation for new business models. In the financial industry…
- Impact of Information Technology on Alternative Channel Services and Its Service Quality
30 September 2019
In the present scenario, the information technology has vital role to strengthen the banking network. With the use of information and communication technology, the banking sector created revolution…
- Barter Credit: Warehouses as a Contracting Technology
5 May 2020
large Brazilian agribusiness lender introduces a new contracting technology: grain warehouses. Using runner-up warehouse locations as a control group, I find that lenders' access to these warehouses…
- The Real Impact of FinTech: Evidence from Mobile Payment Technology
13 April 2020
We utilize the introduction of mobile payment technology by the largest bank in Singapore in 2017 to study how mobile payment technology reshapes economic activities and stimulates business creation.…
- Developing an Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired Persons: Ethiopian Currency Identification
Report · 17 January 2024
In this study an innovative assistive technology designed to empower visually-impaired individuals by providing them with the means to independently identify Ethiopian banknotes. Visually-impaired…
- The Nexus between Mobile Money Regulation, Innovative Technology and the Promotion of Financial Inclusion in Zimbabwe
27 August 2021
The advent of mobile money innovations has given people in rural areas, informal settlements and other poor communities an opportunity to participate in Zimbabwe's mainstream financial economy.…
- Finance, Technology and Inequality in Economic Development
21 April 2005
This paper presents an overlapping generations model with technology choice and credit market imperfections, in order to investigate a possible source of underdevelopment. The model shows that a…
- All About the State: Fifty Years of Innovative Technology to Deliver an Inclusive Financial Sector
11 September 2020
This paper documents the long-term nature of technological innovations which have transformed retail finance and addressed financial exclusion. The paper also contributes to the body of literature on…
- The Role of Mobile Technology in Enhancing Financial Inclusion in Sudan: Challenges and Opportunities
Report · 20 June 2025
Financial inclusion remains a significant challenge in Sudan, a vast nation characterized by a predominantly rural and young population with limited access to traditional banking services. This paper…
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