Fintech

Responsible Digitization of Women Merchants in Rural India for COVID-19 Recovery

10 recommendations from civil society to unlock the impact of fintech in merchant digitization and further India’s progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

India Digital Payments Learning Exchange Series

Better Than Cash Alliance organized a peer exchange learning series to highlight the central and state government initiatives and facilitate peer learning to accelerate service delivery and digital financial inclusion.

L’Afrique de l’Ouest lance un nouvel agenda de numérisation des paiements

Communiqué de presse de Better Than Cash Alliance, la Banque mondiale et l’Agence Nationale des Statistiques du Sénégal (ANSD)

West Africa launches new payments digitization agenda

Media release from the Better Than Cash Alliance, the World Bank and the National Agency of Statistics and Demography of Senegal (ANSD)

Fintechs challenged by PHL attachment to cash

Sa Majesté La Reine Máxima du Royaume des Pays-Bas effectue une visite virtuelle au Sénégal pour promouvoir l’inclusion financière les 19 et 21 janvier 2021

India and UN-Based Better Than Cash Alliance organized a joint Peer learning exchange on fintech solutions for responsible digital payments at the last mile

Igniting SDG Progress Through Digital Financial Inclusion

We invite you to use this compendium to make digital financial inclusion a priority.

Ghana Launches New Policies to Speed Up Financial Inclusion and Digital Payments to Transform the Economy

Public and Private Sector Collaboration is Critical for Success

From conditional cash transfers to fintech adoption

This paper looks at the impact of introducing debit cards for conditional cash transfers in urban areas of Mexico.

New insights into inclusion-focused fintech 

The recently launched Inclusive Fintech 50 whitepaper looks at how early-stage fintechs are working on financial inclusion. Findings reveal that “funding is concentrated in several notable ways, innovation is not limited to technology and common standards are needed to bring clarity to the field.”

Fostering digital payments and fintech development 

This ADBI working paper discusses measures to foster digital financial innovation in Indonesia.

Closing gender gap through fintech

This ADBI brief discusses policy interventions that can help governments in the Asia Pacific region leverage fintech to close the gender gap in financial inclusion. It calls for ensuring tailored services that promote ease of use, flexible regulation to promote access and active coordination among relevant government ministries to enhance financial education. 

Strategies for fintechs in the Pacific 

New IMF paper outlines policy strategies to help promote financial inclusion through fintechs in the Pacific Island countries. It calls on governments to close regulatory gaps and enhance digital and financial literacy while urging fintechs to take a regional approach to overcome scalability constraints.

Early Lessons on Regulatory Innovation to Enable Inclusive FinTech

Read the University of Cambridge and UNSGSA report on how regulators are innovating to better respond to financial innovation….

How fintech is driving financial health

At a panel discussion during the recently concluded GSMA M360 Africa, Flourish’s Ameya Upadhyay presented on how to harness the power of new technologies to drive access and transparency. Check out his presentation.

Fintech notes: Rise of digital money

This IMF brief takes a first stab at tackling the questions surrounding the rise of new forms of digital money.

Distributed Ledger Technology: What Is It and Why Do We Care?

Blockchain Series: Blog 1…

DLT: Keep Calm and Let the Evidence Speak

Blockchain Series: Blog 3…

Paying Across Borders: Can Distributed Ledgers Bring Us Closer Together?

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