Women's World Banking

This year’s Summit will bring together, in-person again, financial service providers, investors, donors, policymakers, and fintech players to explore themes such as gender lens investing, deepening digital engagement, and the importance of leadership & diversity. In addition, Women’s World Banking is hosting its Fourth Fintech Innovation Challenge, designed to identify innovations that target unbanked and […]

Learn more about an open call for applications for civil society-led projects that advance women’s digital financial inclusion in Ethiopia. The deadline to apply is June 22, 2023. Note: The grants are administered by Women’s World Banking with UNCDF operating as a technical advisor for grant selection and monitoring and evaluation. Background   The UN Capital […]

Supporting financial regulators to develop policies that close the gender gap in financial inclusion; Building the women’s leadership pipeline in regulatory organizations. This multi-week global blended learning program, taught by Women’s World Banking and Faculty from Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, brings together senior officials (male/female/nonbinary) from central banks and other regulatory agencies and high-potential […]

One billion women are not actively engaged with formal financial services. ¾ of those women have no access at all. In some countries, it will take over 100 years before we see gender equality in access if we don’t intervene. Over 300 leaders in financial services, investor, philanthropy, policy and technology communities will come together […]

Supporting financial regulators to develop policies that close the gender gap in financial inclusion; Building the women’s leadership pipeline in regulatory organizations. This virtual, 12-week global program, taught by Women’s World Banking and Faculty from Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, implemented together with the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, brings together senior officials (male/female/nonbinary) from central […]

Date: Thursday, March 3, 2022 Time: 9:00 AM – 10:10 AM ET Globally, men make up 80% of executive committees in major financial service providers. Yet, the business case has been evidenced repeatedly that gender-diverse leadership and executive committees afford greater stability, increased innovation, and reduced risk. What is holding back key decision-makers to enact positive change […]

Date: October 12th, 2021 Time: 9:00AM – 12:35PM EDT In its third year, Women’s World Banking’s Fintech Innovation Challenge provides a global stage to highlight Fintech innovations serving unbanked and underserved women in order to build their security and prosperity in the face of global inequalities. Despite years of progress in advancing financial inclusion, nearly […]

Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing financial services. It drives down costs, opens up new data possibilities on which to make decisions, and promises new efficiencies for financial services providers. But how might the industry leverage this technology to pursue inclusion—without repeating or amplifying the mistakes of the past? Join us and a panel of experts as […]

11:30AM – 1:00PM ED Are digital platforms missing out on a new market opportunity? As the future of digital finance rapidly approaches, the most inclusive players will capture new market segments among digitally connected entrepreneurs. Join the webinar as it discusses the ways in which digital literacy, e-commerce, social commerce, and digital marketing might serve […]

9AM Jakarta / Hanoi / Phnom Penh 10AM Singapore / Hong Kong / Manila 10PM EDT New York (Tuesday, June 1) This webinar will cover Women’s World Banking’s latest report, which provides a conceptual framework to move Indonesian women from financial inclusion to empowerment. It will focus on: Analysis of norms governing women’s agency Ability […]

May 12, 2021  3:30 – 4:30 PM IST/6:00 – 7:00 AM EDT The panel will discuss on how FSPs and regulators can effectively support women Jan Dhan customers as the gateway to build households’ economic resilience, role of Public Sector Banks in this journey and need for sex-disaggregated data in designing financial products for women. […]

March 8, 2021 08:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) Women’s World Banking, the World Bank, the Better Than Cash Alliance, and the United Nations Capital Development Fund invite you to join our Call to Action on March 8, International Women’s Day! Today, 247 million women 15+ are living below the extreme poverty line […]

Join Women’s World Banking for the next edition of the Making Finance Work for Women Summit. More than 300 global leaders from the financial services, investor, philanthropy, policy and technology communities will come together to examine key issues and innovations in financial inclusion for women. Plenaries, panels, and debates will feature experts in the field […]

During this one-day event, more than 125 leaders from the financial services, consumer products, and technology industries, investors, philanthropists and government will examine key issues in financial inclusion and advance innovations for low-income women through a variety of panel discussions and workshops. Discussion Topics:  Priorities for women’s financial inclusion. Investing with a gender lens. Financing women in the […]

Women’s World Banking will host biennial Making Finance Work For Women Summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on October 24th and 25th, 2017. The Summit will convene 300 participants in a variety of innovative sessions addressing the most important issues in women’s financial inclusion. Attendees and participants will include leaders from the financial services, consumer […]

It is almost a universal fact: explaining insurance is difficult. For many low-income people, who would never have dreamed of having an insurance policy, understanding the product and benefits that can be derived from using it, is even more difficult. For financial institutions this complexity coupled with low levels of awareness can make uptake and […]