Alliance for Financial Inclusion

The world’s leading organization on financial inclusion policy and regulation. A member-owned network, we empower policymakers to increase access and usage of quality financial services for the underserved through the formulation, implementation and global advocacy of sustainable and inclusive policies.
634
million people
financially included
920
policy and
regulatory changes
101
member
institutions
89
countries

Making financial services more accessible to the world’s unbanked.

Guidance Implementation Agenda Setting
1 July 2022 | Speech
AfPI Leaders’ Roundtable – Opening remarks by AFI Executive Director, Dr. Alfred Hannig
1 July 2022
AfPI Leaders’ Roundtable – Opening remarks by AFI Executive Director, Dr. Alfred Hannig
AFI members in Africa have reported over 150 policy changes between 2019 and 2021. The top three thematic areas of the policy changes reported in 2021 by AFI member institutions in Africa included DFS, NFIS and SME finance.
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30 June 2022 | Speech
Inaugural speech delivered by Dr. Mwigulu Lameck Nchemba (MP), Minister of Finance and Planning of the Republic of Tanzania, on the 10th African Financial Inclusion Policy Initiative (AfPI) Leaders’ Roundtable
30 June 2022
Inaugural speech delivered by Dr. Mwigulu Lameck Nchemba (MP), Minister of Finance and Planning of the Republic of Tanzania, on the 10th African Financial Inclusion Policy Initiative (AfPI) Leaders’ Roundtable
Inaugural speech delivered by Dr. Mwigulu Lameck Nchemba (MP), Minister of Finance and Planning of the Republic of Tanzania, on the 10th African Financial Inclusion Policy Initiative (AfPI) Leaders’ Roundtable
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27 June 2022 | News
Seychelles takes over as AfPI Chair, Ghana elected as Vice Chair
27 June 2022
Seychelles takes over as AfPI Chair, Ghana elected as Vice Chair
This is the first time AFI Africa leaders met in person, following two years of virtual work. Leaders discussed inclusive digital finance and policies that promote financial inclusion for vulnerable groups such as women, the youth, forcibly displaced persons, and rural and remote...
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22 June 2022 | News
2022 AfPI meetings and Leaders’ Roundtable take place in Arusha, Tanzania
22 June 2022
2022 AfPI meetings and Leaders’ Roundtable take place in Arusha, Tanzania
Governors and deputy governors will share policy solutions that drive digital financial inclusion and remove barriers faced by the region’s vulnerable groups such as women, youth, micro, small and medium size enterprises (MSMEs) and other disproportionately excluded communities...
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21 June 2022 | Blog
Why green credit risk guarantee schemes are important for MSMEs
21 June 2022
Why green credit risk guarantee schemes are important for MSMEs
The combination of financial inclusion approaches with sustainability objectives, is quickly gaining traction across AFI member jurisdictions. Several AFI members have successfully implemented micro-, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) credit risk guarantee schemes (CGSs) in var...
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17 June 2022 | News
Critical need for communicating women’s financial inclusion
17 June 2022
Critical need for communicating women’s financial inclusion
Developing a coordinated approach to communicating women’s financial inclusion between policy specialists and communications experts within AFI member institutions is critical in raising awareness, educating and informing stakeholders on how to provide women access and usage of...
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15 June 2022 | Blog
Advancing inclusive green finance for women in Ecuador
15 June 2022
Advancing inclusive green finance for women in Ecuador
Guaman runs a farm located in the countryside of Ecuador. Thanks to a financing arrangement  with the Cooperative de Ahorro y Credito Mujeres Unidas (CACMU), she grows aromatic plants and raises pigs, ducks, chickens and guinea pigs. Her prized crop, however, is babaco, also kno...
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15 June 2022 | News
CEFI, the online training for financial inclusion by AFI and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
15 June 2022
CEFI, the online training for financial inclusion by AFI and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Registration for the next intake of CEFI, the online training for financial inclusion by AFI and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, opens on 1 June 2022 on the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management website.
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7 June 2022 | Blog
Transformative policies for a greener future
7 June 2022
Transformative policies for a greener future
In conjunction with World Environment Day 2022, we caught up with the leadership of the IGFWG to get their take on important trends in inclusive green finance and insights on the direction AFI members are taking in this work area.
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24 May 2022 | News
Working groups in Costa Rica discuss consumer protection, data and proportionality
24 May 2022
Working groups in Costa Rica discuss consumer protection, data and proportionality
The three working groups are taking stock of different developments, deliberating the important recovery policies and synergies after the pandemic and the different angles many jurisdictions have adopted.
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23 May 2022 | Speech
25th FIDWG, 23rd CEMCWG & 16th GSPWG meetings - Opening Remarks by SUGEF Superintendent General, Rocio Aguilar
23 May 2022
25th FIDWG, 23rd CEMCWG & 16th GSPWG meetings - Opening Remarks by SUGEF Superintendent General, Rocio Aguilar
Today we are honored to be able to serve as co-hosts in one of these first face-to-face meetings after almost two years of exclusive virtuality.
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23 May 2022 | Speech
25th FIDWG, 23rd CEMCWG and 16th GSPWG Meetings - Opening Remarks by AFI Policy Programs & Implementation Director Eliki Boletawa
23 May 2022
25th FIDWG, 23rd CEMCWG and 16th GSPWG Meetings - Opening Remarks by AFI Policy Programs & Implementation Director Eliki Boletawa
We are grateful for the commitment, collaboration, and flexibility of AFI member institutions such as SUGEF Costa Rica, which have willingly moved the needle in terms of financial inclusion policymaking.
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Publications

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AFI publishes financial inclusion regulatory and policy guidance based on peer learning, cooperation and a bottom-up approach. Explore Library

Policy and Regulatory Reforms in the AFI Network 2021
This report presents the policy and regulatory reforms that members of the AFI network were developing and implementing in 2021.
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Green Credit Guarantee Schemes for MSMEs
This report elaborates on policy considerations for the implementation of credit guarantee schemes that can be used to support green lending to MSMEs.
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Gender in the Banking Sector 2021
Superintendencia de Bancos de la República Dominicana prepared this report to take on an institutional commitment in order to generate knowledge products that can contribute to the development of public policies that promote gender equity in the country.
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Towards an Inclusive Green Future: An Analysis of the Intersection Between Inclusive Green Finance and Gender Inclusive Finance
The purpose of this special report is to examine the intersection between inclusive green finance and gender inclusive finance.
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Member Series: Nepal’s Financial Inclusion Journey Towards Access to Finance, Financial Literacy and Financial Consumer Protection
This member series report highlights important breakthroughs including the current status, activities, challenges and future outlook of Nepal's financial inclusion journey.
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Consent, Convergence and Data Protection: Cornerstones for the Success of Inclusive Open Finance
This workshop report summarizes the key takeaways and talking points of the Global Fintech Dialogue on Open Finance – Innovations and Inclusion.
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