June 23rd, 2018
Financial inclusion of Forcibly Displaced Persons (FDPs): What is the role of FinTech?
Community empowerment, blockchain and financial inclusion: The Rohingya Project approach
By Muhammad Noor, Managing Director & Founder, The Rohingya Project
The Rohingya are a stateless people. Being stateless means lacking the basic elements of identity. These include a passport to travel, or a national identity card to open a bank account…
June 22nd, 2018
Advancing the financial inclusion of refugees through an inclusive market system approach
Improving livelihoods through economic and financial inclusion is a key component of achieving protection and long-term solutions for the refugee situation. Economic inclusion contributes to the self-reliance and resilience of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons, empowering them to meet their needs in a safe, sustainable and dignified manner,…
June 20th, 2018
To mark World Refugee Day on 20 June, AFI members shed light on their efforts in innovating responsibility sharing, partnerships, and policy actions to advance the financial inclusion of FDPs. These proactive policy approaches being implemented by emerging economy financial regulators show what is possible even within the context of compliance with global standards and other constraints such as an underdeveloped financial infrastructure. …
June 19th, 2018
AFI member stories - Asia: Best practices in financial inclusion of FDPs
To mark World Refugee Day on 20 June, AFI members shed light on their efforts in innovating responsibility sharing, partnerships, and policy actions to advance the financial inclusion of FDPs. These proactive policy approaches being implemented by emerging economy financial regulators show what is possible even within the context of compliance with global standards…
To mark World Refugee Day on 20 June, AFI members shed light on their efforts in innovating responsibility sharing, partnerships, and policy actions to advance the financial inclusion of FDPs. These proactive policy approaches being implemented by emerging economy financial regulators show what is possible even within the context of compliance with global standards…
June 18th, 2018
Why financial regulators are vital in the global forced displacement crisis
Last year on World Refugee Day, we highlighted that an important aspect of forced displacement is the challenge of providing fast, efficient, and sustainable delivery of financial services and products to Forcibly Displaced Persons (FDPs) who include refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and asylum seekers. One year later, this still holds true as the scale…
May 30th, 2018
To mark AFI's 10-year celebration, we sat down with Executive Director, Dr. Alfred Hannig for a walk down memory lane to reflect on AFI's early years and its decade of impact on financial inclusion.
#AFITurns10: Celebrating 10 years of financial inclusionOver 10 years ago, a team gathered for a retreat in Seattle, United States to map out a single shared dream on a drawing board. The Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) had humble…
May 23rd, 2018
Expert views: First Deputy Governor Dr. Seeku Jaabi shares perspective on joining AFI, role of digital finance & cutting the gender gap
AFI welcomed Central Bank of The Gambia (CBG) into its network in December 2017. We had the pleasure of meeting the First Deputy Governor Dr. Seeku Jaabi, who oversees financial sector stability in the country, during the two-day training on challenges and risks that come with large-scale changes in…
May 8th, 2018
Expert views: Deputy Governor Elsie Addo Awadzi discusses sustainable SME finance in Ghana
During a one-week High-Level Joint Learning Programme, co-hosted by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and AFI in Kuala Lumpur last month, we sat down with Elsie Addo Awadzi, Deputy Governor of Bank of Ghana (BoG) to gain her perspective on financial inclusion and the pillars of sustainable SME finance.
AFI: In your opinion, what is the best way to…
May 2nd, 2018
FinTech for Financial Inclusion: The time to act is now
We live in a hashtag generation! There is a constant urge to stay connected with pervasive access to digital technology.
There are now more than 4 billion internet users around the world. A quarter of a billion users came online for the first time in 2017. Africa has seen the fastest growth rates. There are 5.135 billion mobile phone users across the globe with a total of 8.48…
April 30th, 2018
Propelling financial inclusion in the Arab Region
Today we celebrate the Arab Day of Financial Inclusion!
Adopted by Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) and the Council of Arab Central Banks on 27 April 2016, the overall purpose of Arab Day of Financial Inclusion Day to advocate financial inclusion, and its role in driving the development of policies, strategies and programs to promote access to financial services, and improve financial…