Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI)

We’re excited to bring you the latest issue of the AFI Global Newsletter! 🌍 This edition explores insights and highlights on #financialinclusion from across the AFI network. Discover innovative initiatives, key policy updates, and inspiring success stories that reflect our members’ dedication to expanding financial access worldwide to #LeaveNoOneBehind. #FinancialServices #Fintech #InclusiveGreenfinance #GenderInclusiveFinance

For the last four years, Bank of Ghana Deputy Governor, Elsie Addo Awadzi has chaired AFI’s #Gender Inclusive Finance Committee. As her term comes to an end, she reflects on how the landscape for women’s financial inclusion is changing. ➡Read the full interview: https://lnkd.in/d2Xcf6Mp ➡Link to YouTube video: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dZAW82mg #FinancialInclusion #GenderInclusiveFinance #GenderEquality

AFI, together with the University of Luxembourg, will be hosting a joint-side event at the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP) 29 on “Measuring Inclusive Green Finance.” The event will explore: ✅ Inclusive Green Finance’s impact in achieving progress towards the goals set out in the Paris Agreement ✅How regulators can develop and implement key performance indicators for IGF policies ✅ How the private sector can leverage these KPIs to demonstrate impact. 🔗 https://bit.ly/48FXXJD Stay tuned for more updates! International Development Research Centre (IDRC) AFD - Agence Française de Développement #COP29 #COP29Azerbaijan #InclusiveGreenFinance #GreenFinance #ClimateAction #SDG13

The Bank of Ghana's new Financial Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) Directive is a landmark step towards ensuring equitable access to financial services for #PWDs. This directive requires financial service providers to create #inclusive environments with #accessible products and services. It also sets a framework for policies that break down barriers for PWDs to access and use financial services. During its development, the Directive benefited from peer review by Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Bank of Tanzania, and Banca d'Italia - Eurosistema. 👉Learn more: https://bit.ly/4fcVlW5 #FinancialServices #FinancialInclusion #LeaveNoOneBehind #DisabilityInclusion

With an ambitious goal of including one billion people in the digital economy by 2025, Mastercard's vision extends beyond access—it’s about driving inclusive growth. At the recently held AFI Global Policy Forum, we talked to Ravi Aurora, Senior VP International Government Affairs at Mastercard, who shared insights on the current state of #financialinclusion. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4fgaTaS #DigitalFinance #DFS #LeaveNoOneBehind #Fintech

📢 Request for Proposals: Consultancy Services for Gender-Sensitive Financial Consumer Protection. AFI is hiring consultants to support a project aimed at enhancing #Gender-Sensitive Financial Consumer Protection. The project's objective is to: ➡ Identify current practices and gaps in addressing gender-related risks ➡ Conduct awareness-raising workshops ➡ Develop a comprehensive policy document with practical recommendations. The overall goal of this project is to strengthen the technical capacity of financial regulators within the AFI network to design, implement, and monitor effective gender-sensitive consumer protection policies. 📅Closing date: 5 November 2024 For more details: 👉 https://bit.ly/3NAmKFd #ConsumerProtection #RFP #GenderInclusiveFinance #GenderFinance

A recent webinar hosted by AFI's Digital Financial Services Working Group brought together 106 participants, including high-level officials, to explore the evolving landscape of regulatory #sandboxes. The discussion focused on how sandbox models, management processes, and regulations are adapting to the rapid pace of technological advancements and the changing needs of the #digitalfinance and #fintech ecosystem. To learn more about the insights shared during the webinar, visit link: 🔗 https://bit.ly/48iAdLe. #financialinclusion #DFS #FinancialServices

Inclusive Housing Finance took center stage at a recent masterclass organized by AFI and Habitat for Humanity International in Zanzibar, Tanzania. AFI members from the Central Bank of Egypt, Central Bank of Suriname, and the Bank of Tanzania explored how regulators can expand inclusive housing finance by the banking sector, mortgage companies, savings and loan institutions, and micro-lenders, in safe manner. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4eVGxe8 #HousingFinance #FinancialInclusion #SustainableDevelopment #InclusiveHousingFinance

Why is financial inclusion pivotal to combating illicit finance? “The answer is simple,” said Elisa de Anda Madrazo, President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). “The safest space for money launderers and terrorist financers to hide is in the grey market and the informal sector. The more people are locked out of the formal economy, the bigger the playing field for bad actors to operate in.” Read the full interview where Elisa de Anda Madrazo shares her thoughts on #financialinclusion's critical role in countering money laundering and terrorism financing: 🔗 https://bit.ly/3BPPA1s Link to the YouTube video: https://lnkd.in/dc-hYJpW #Financialintegrity

Achieving true #genderinclusivity means facing up to legal and socio-cultural, in addition to regulatory, barriers. While we have a long way to go, central banks are leading by example, developing policies that support women’s empowerment, and making gender equity an integral part of their mandates. ➡Learn more in my latest column: 🔗 https://bit.ly/3Yd3uSR #Financialinclusion #GenderEquity