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Note from the editor
As the usage of digital solutions increased significantly over the past year, the evolution of digital financial services represents an opportunity to reach previously excluded and underserved populations with more tailored financial services. In this month’s insight, the editorial team selected a few studies and blog to help you better adapt to and take advantage of this fast-paced growth.
The Role of Development Funders in Supporting Inclusive Fintechs
This analysis uses available data to paint a picture of fintech investments by development funders – relative to commercial funders – and understand whether development funders are adding value by supporting markets and companies that do not receive/qualify for commercial funding or that have an opportunity to provide solutions that can enable low-income populations build resilience and capture opportunities
Read MoreLow-cost, cashless loans for smallholder farmers: the case of FarMart in India
The blog introduces a digital leasing and credit platform in India, FarMart. FarMart is a leasing platform that connects farmers looking for agricultural machinery (such as tractors and tillers) with other farmers that own them and are willing to rent. It expands on its original leasing model by adding a digital credit service to its app, specifically aimed at providing low-cost loans for financially underserved smallholders
Read MoreDigital Financial Literacy
This Guideline Note presents key considerations for regulators and policymakers to understand, develop, facilitate policies and design interventions to advance digital financial literacy.
Read MoreAssessment of Long-term Finance Providers for Small and Medium Agribusinesses : Stocktaking, Lessons, and Case Studies
The study introduces a brief discussion of the importance of Long-term (LT) agribusiness SME finance and provides a stocktaking analysis covering commercial and development banks, investment funds, and agribusiness companies. It concludes with a comparative analysis, offering overall observations, policy recommendations and suggestions for future research. In the final section, there are five in-depth case studies of distinct types of LT finance providers along with lessons learned.
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- The case for insurance innovators to consider the cell captive regulatory model
- Impacts of agricultural value chain development in a mountainous region: Evidence from Nepal
- Supervision of Outsourcing of Digital Services by Banks
- Regulatory Approaches to the Interest Earned on E-Money Float Accounts
- Digital Financial Literacy
- The Role of Development Funders in Supporting Inclusive Fintechs
- Assessment of Long-term Finance Providers for Smalland Medium Agribusinesses : Stocktaking, Lessons, and Case Studies
- Climate and Disaster Risk Financing Instruments
- COVID-19 and small business finance: Lessons from the 2008 global financial crisis
- Concentration in Asia’s Cross-Border Banking: Determinants and Impacts

- Applying a Gender Lens to PAYGo Solar
- Women’s Economic Empowerment and Financial Inclusion in Indonesia
- Ethical Finance Summit 2021
- COVID-19 Surveys: Better Understanding the Impact on MFIs and Their Clients to Better Act
- Global Forum on Remittances, Investment and Development (GFRID)
- Inclusive Fintechs in the Arab World: An Opportunity Worth Billions