RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION
Our mission is to improve the lives of underserved people by building innovative and responsible financial solutions.
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478M
Since Accion’s founding, our work has reached 478 million underserved people globally.
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Accion has helped build 285 financial service providers operating across 77 countries.
46.8M
In 2024 , 46.8 million people were actively using solutions provided by our financial service provider partners.
Financial services are powerful tools to help reduce poverty and create opportunity
We find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach large numbers of underserved people and accelerate their growth by investing capital and providing strategic governance and advice.
We work with partners to create affordable digital solutions that build clients’ financial health and well-being. Accion Advisory leverages expertise in digital technologies to design, test, and deploy new financial products and services.
We conduct in-depth research and share our learnings to advance responsible financial solutions and systems. The Center for Financial Inclusion, an independent think tank housed at Accion, focuses on consumer protection, women’s economic inclusion, data risks and opportunities, and climate change.
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Today, after decades of improvement, global poverty and inequality are on the rise, making our mission more urgent than ever.