05 March 2010: The first Reporte de Inclusión Financiera  (State of financial inclusion report) from Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores de Mexico (CNBV) provides an outstanding example of a financial regulator in a developing country taking the lead to require commercial banks to provide detailed data that allow the regulator to measure and monitor financial inclusion goals.

The report, which was produced with support from an AFI grant, presents supply-side data and drawing on multiple sources to give a picture of financial inclusion of all the states and municipalities in the country. It is available to public and private sector players and future issues will publish new demand-side data from household and individual surveys.

The report is one part and the dissemination tool of a larger CNBV strategy for measuring financial inclusion. The report is available here (in Spanish). AFI is now looking into possibilities for translation of key elements of the document into other languages, to allow for wider knowledge sharing.