Financial Inclusion: The Role of Agent Banking, Financial Sector Reforms, Rural Credit, SME Finance & Financial Education in Brazil

Overview

This four-day practical and interactive program has been developed exclusively to enable AFI members and guest delegations to exchange their knowledge on financial inclusion with a strong focus on agent banking, rural credit and financial education.

This program will examine the following crucial key learning points:

• The Brazilian financial sector reforms;
• The role and importance of agent banking in Brazil;
• The specific rules and regulations that can significantly impact the growth of agent banking;
• Supervising agent banking in Brazil: Tips and lessons learned;
• Challenges related to agent banking in Brazil;
• Rural credit regulation and supervision;
• SME finance; and
• The impact of financial education in enhancing financial inclusion in Brazil.

Who should attend?

Representatives from AFI member institutions can apply for this program. This program is useful for both policymakers and regulators who are looking at access to rural credit, financial education, and especially for those interested in setting policies, regulating and/or supervising agent banking. 

Key benefits for attending?

• Foster collaboration among AFI members in order to learn from the policymaking experiences of others and share their knowledge of financial inclusion policies that have delivered tangible results;
• Gain knowledge from a successful regulatory body with proven results and experience;
• Identify the lessons learned in providing a framework for financial inclusion in Brazil; and
• Copies of laws, guidelines, regulations, and supervision best practices in overseeing agent banking networks. 

Agenda

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How to register

In order to participate in the Financial Inclusion International Week in Brazil from 2-5 December 2013, kindly fill in the Request for Application (RFA) and budget forms and return them to AFI grant managers before 18 October 2013: grants@afi-global.org.

Click here to download the RFA
Click here to download the budget template