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Dear RFILC members,
We have come to the end of a very productive year and we would like to thank you for following and supporting the RFILC during this evolution period. We hope you enjoy our new monthly Rural Finance and Investment Insights. We would be also pleased to receive your suggestions and comments at the RFILC email address info@ruralfinanceandinvestment.org.
This month, we are delighted to present the GIZ discussion paper on “Responsible Mobile Insurance” which assesses new initiative in the field of mobile insurance through the lens of responsible finance to determine the risk and potential responsible practices. Responsible finance has recently developed as a coordinated approach aimed at driving responsible practices in financial inclusion based on public and private sector interventions that encourage and assist financial services providers and their clients in improving their understanding and practices to create more transparent, inclusive, and equitable financial markets balanced in favour of all income groups. Mobile insurance has huge potential due to the high mobile penetration and the growing mobile money industry and is driven by a number of factors and stakeholders.
Besides, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) working paper titled “An Overview of Islamic Finance” tends to provide an overview of key policy issues and challenges facing practitioners and policy makers. It provides an overview of Islamic finance, discusses key macroeconomic implications from its expansion across the globe, and gives a broad perspective on key elements of Islamic finance and banking. Instead of exploring deeply a few controversial issues or introducing new solutions to current challenges in Islamic finance, it tries to provide a general overview of the Islamic finance industry which, as a relatively new branch of finance, is often difficult to understand and prone to being misunderstood.
Finally, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management has designed an exclusive international e-learning programmes tailored to insurance, microfinance, bank practitioners, mid-level managers and loan officers world-wide. The 6-month certification part time online courses on Microfinance and Microinsurance, SME Finance, Risk Management and Climate and Renewable Energy Finance deliver contents that help participants to immediately improve their daily job performance as well as the performance of their institution. For more information and early bird discount, click here.
Wishing you all the warmth and happiness that this beautiful holiday season always brings.
With best regards,
The RFILC editorial team

- Programa Boulder MFT en Español
- 18th Microcredit Summit: “Frontier Innovations in Financial Inclusion”
- 16th Annual Cards and Payments Africa 2016
- Microinsurance Summit 2016
- Fostering Investments in African Agricultural Value Chains
- Mobile technology applications in agricultural finance: global trends and innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa


- Financing facility for remittances publications webpage
- Acceso a finanzas para pequeños productores rurales
- Microseguros agropecuarios y gestión integral de riesgos en Centroamérica y la República Dominicana
- Retos del sector agropecuario en Colombia: sostenibilidad para la competitividad
- Generación de ingresos y finanzas rurales mediante grupos de la comunidad Colombia
- Sistema nacional de crédito agropecuario: Colombia
- Responsible Mobile Insurance
- Islamic Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Status and Prospects
- An Overview of Islamic Finance
- Can Islamic Banking Increase Financial Inclusion?
- Landscape of Microinsurance in Ghana 2015: supply and demand side report
- Islamic Finance: Opportunities, Challenges and Policy Options
- The MasterCard Foundation: Rural and Agricultural Finance Strategy
- Agricultural Finance Policy Coordination in Africa
- Designing and Delivering Agriculture Finance Products
- Serving Smallholder Farmers: Recent Developments in Digital Finance
- Le warrantage paysan, un outil de protection des ressources
- Manuel de formation sur le warrantage au Niger
- Etude de cas du warrantage au Niger
- Premières informations tirées des agendas financiers des ménages de petits exploitants agricoles

- Gobierno profundiza inclusión financiera
- Presión tributaria en entidades afiliadas a Asofin llegará a 62%
- Lanzan programa de microseguros para microempresarios
- UN agency launches country-wide rural development program in Afghanistan
- Weak agriculture finance feeds malnutrition in Zimbabwe
- La réponse innovante du Crédit Rural de Guinée à l’épidémie d’Ebola
- Lauréats du Prix Seed Foundation
- Un fonds d’investissement en gestation pour préserver les terres agricoles