Alliance for Financial Inclusion

On 29 & 30 November, at the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, AFI and the BIS’s Financial Stability Institute (FSI) co-organized a workshop which explored the implications of the growth in digital assets for financial inclusion. 

On 1 December, at the COP28 meeting in Dubai, AFI and the University of Luxembourg hosted a side event highlighting how inclusive green finance is contributing to financial stability and market efficiency, and calling for IGF to be adopted worldwide.

On behalf of AFI, it is an honor to welcome you all to Kuala Lumpur. A special welcome to all who are attending an AFI event for the first time or maybe an AFI Capacity Building event for the first time. I am sure some of you are visiting Kuala Lumpur for the first time.

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.

Hosting refugees is part of Jordan’s DNA. It has the second-highest refugee population per capita in the world. Throughout the country’s history, it has experienced several mass influxes of refugees. Financial inclusion is critical in helping them reconstruct their lives. And...

On 23 November, AFI’s Digital Financial Services Working Group held a webinar exploring the potential of inclusive instant payment systems (IPS) to drive financial inclusion, drawing on the experience of countries around the globe. 

In many countries, forcibly displaced people struggle to access financial products and build a sustainable livelihood, but things are different in Uganda. The country, which hosts the largest number of refugees and asylum seekers in Africa, views forcibly displaced people as an i...

Armenia’s Sustainable Finance Roadmap provides a blueprint of Central Bank expectations and planned actions regarding the incorporation of environmental, climate, social and governance risks into financial market processes.

Recognizing financial inclusion’s vital role in helping people with disabilities (PWDs) to fulfil their potential, on 15 November, 123 attendees from 38 countries took part in an AFI Virtual Webinar on Financial Inclusion for PWDs.

The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) is cognizant of technological transformations and is keen to prepare the Malawi economy for the transition to the adoption and use of digital financial services. In this vein, the RBM, in collaboration with the Ministry of Trade, issued Business L...

Most MSMEs in Africa are engaged in informal activities and, thus, are at a higher risk of losing their livelihood due to economic shocks. To enhance their capacity to withstand financial shocks, the National Bank of Rwanda (“NBR”) embarked on a project to equip local MSMEs w...

Technology has been at the forefront of Africa's financial inclusion success. But, unless used responsibly, technology can also harm more than it helps, says Rogerio Lucas Zandamela, Governor of Banco de Moçambique.