The Business of Doing Good: A Chat with Anton Simanowitz
> Posted by Center Staff Larry Reed, director of the Microcredit Summit Campaign, recently sat down with Susy Cheston, senior advisor to FI2020, and Anton Simanowitz, co-author of the new book The...
View ArticleAddressing the Financial Needs of the Most Excluded
> Posted by Larry Reed, Director, the Microcredit Summit Campaign, and Jesse Marsden, Research and Operations Manager, the Microcredit Summit Campaign In collaboration with the CFI’s process to...
View ArticleRating Progress toward Financial Inclusion on a Scale of 1 to 10
> Posted by Elisabeth Rhyne, Managing Director, CFI Today the Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI) is proud to launch the Financial Inclusion 2020 Progress Report, an interactive website that...
View ArticleClient Centricity: Views from the Top
> Posted by Nadia van de Walle, Lead, Africa Partnerships and Programs, the Smart Campaign Organizational change doesn’t always start from the top, but if it originates elsewhere, and the change is...
View ArticleKeeping Your Eyes on the Road: Strategy in a World of Exponential Growth
> Posted by Philip Brown, CFI Advisory Council Member and Managing Director Risk, Citi Inclusive Finance As new opportunities for inclusive financial services continue to grow, they are accompanied...
View ArticleFinancial Inclusion Week Roundup E-Magazine: Keeping Clients First in a...
> Posted by Center Staff In its second year, Financial Inclusion Week expanded its reach and once again displayed how the financial inclusion community is engaged and working for better services for...
View Article3 More Great Books on Financial Inclusion and How the Poor Use Money
> Posted by Center Staff Editor’s Note: A previous version of this post has been one of the CFI blog’s all-time most popular posts. We thought we’d update it with a few more books, and put it front...
View ArticleTiny Loans, Big Questions: Client Protection in Mobile Consumer Credit
We discuss emerging consumer risks posed by nano-loans through the frame of the Client Protection Principles. > Posted by Alex Rizzi, Senior Director, The Smart Campaign As champions for financial...
View ArticleNigeria Needs to Include Consumer Protection in Its Ambitious Financial...
> Posted by Carmen Paraison, Senior Program Associate, Africa, the Smart Campaign Nigeria has an ambitious target of including 70 percent of its population in the formal financial services fold by...
View ArticleFinancial Inclusion from a Consumer Perspective
> Posted by Elisabeth Rhyne, Managing Director, CFI Client of Akiba Bank in Tanzania Around the world today, financial service providers, technology entrepreneurs and policy makers are engaged in...
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