Bansal, the <a href="https://www.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/about/what-we-do/the-smart-campaign">Smart Campaign</a>'s Senior Director in South and Southeast Asia, notes that the problem over-indebtedness is more severe in the island country than elsewhere.

She also points out that the government's decision to write off business loans of up to 100,000 rupees falls short.

"One-off measures will not do, says Ms Bansal: Sri Lanka needs properly enforced rules that prevent over-indebtedness and ensure fair treatment of borrowers."

Read the <a href="https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/08/15/microfinance-is-driving-many-sri-lankan-borrowers-to-despair">full article</a> (soft paywall).

In The Economist: Hema Bansal on Over-Indebtedness in Sri Lanka

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Barres's questions that Libra's developers should consider when innovating for the new cryptocurrency are:
<ul>
 	<li>What would data privacy agreements look like if we wanted them to be understandable, fair and with an option to opt out?</li>
 	<li>How would algorithms that did not discriminate be set up?</li>
 	<li>How might fully transparent, low-cost and high-quality products and services that truly solve problems be brought to bear?</li>
</ul>
Read the <a href="https://www.euromoney.com/article/b1g0hvpnhqmyg0/cryptocurrency-facebook39s-libra-is-this-how-we-get-to-responsible-fintech">full article in Euromoney</a>.

In Euromoney: Smart Campaign's Isabelle Barres Poses Questions About Libra

Appropriate Product Design and Delivery

Responsible Digital Finance

The <a href="https://www.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/about/what-we-do/the-smart-campaign/">Smart Campaign</a>'s senior director discussed the motivation behind the survey and forthcoming report with <a href="https://www.newtimes.co.rw/">The New Times</a>, a leading Rwandan news provider.

“We want all stakeholders to understand the actual experiences and concerns of the clients they are serving, protecting or advocating for, because there hasn't been a comprehensive survey underpinning the conduct of this digital financial service before,” <a href="https://content.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/people/alexandra-rizzi/">Rizzi</a> said.

Fraud was a "major problem" for about 40 percent of respondents (with 10 percent falling victim themselves), and while nearly 90 percent trust mobile money services, that trust extends to specific services, namely person-to-person (P2P) transfers. There are approximately 11 million mobile money users in Rwanda.

The report will be available for download on this site in the coming weeks. The results were discussed at a workshop of regulators in the Rwandan capital Kigali in March and will be discussed at the <a href="https://sptf.info/annual-meetings/2019-summit-inclusive-digital-future">Inclusive Digital Future Summit</a> in Nairobi in June 2019.

Read the<a href="https://www.newtimes.co.rw/business/mobile-money-services-enjoy-public-confidence-fraud-remains-threat-survey-reveals"> full article</a> and learn more about the <a href="http://smartcampaign.org/tools-a-resources/1075">Client Voices Project</a>.

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In The New Times: Smart Campaign's Alex Rizzi Interviewed About Client Voices Project Survey in Rwanda

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This <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-273615244/frt-episode-28-digital-customer-journey">episode</a> of the "FRT" podcast focuses on how digital customer journeys are enabling financial institutions to reach underserved segments in a sustainable manner. IIF’s Conan French host Rhyne and Amin Khairy to discuss the upcoming CFI-IIF paper “Charting the Customer Journey in the Digital Age.”

Rhyne discusses the persistent challenges for digital inclusion and the importance of having a “tech-touch” balance at certain stages of the customer journey.

They also discuss the potential gain in operational efficiencies for financial institutions and the positive impact digitization has on unbanked customers and provide real-life examples of digital customer journeys in various stages: pre-onboarding, onboarding and continued use.

"We're finding that the countries that are making it easy to onboard are those with a good national ID program," Rhyne said. "Having a very clear and simple to use national ID that's easily connected electronically is probably the most important thing."

Rhyne also notes that understanding the unique financial lives of lower income segments is crucial to digitization and different from transitioning banked populations from analog to digital.

Browse more <a href="https://www.iif.com/Innovation/FRT-Podcast">FRT podcast episodes</a>.

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IIF Podcast Features Elisabeth Rhyne Discussing the Digital Customer Journey

Human Centered Design

In the March 14 <a href="https://www.raconteur.net/finance/financial-inclusion-banked">piece</a>, Rhyne’s insights are part of a broad survey of the global financial inclusion landscape -- from barriers to financial inclusion in the developing world, to its benefits and the tools that are helping to integrate marginalized populations into the “financial mainstream.”
“In the developing world there is an issue of absolute low incomes,” Rhyne said in the feature, which appeared in the <a href="https://www.raconteur.net/future-money-2019">Future of Money</a>, a 20-page insert published in <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk">The Times (UK)</a> in association with <a href="https://europe.money2020.com/">Money 20/20</a>. “In regards to how much in deposits people would be providing, how large a credit they might want, these are below the threshold of feasibility for banks using traditional branch-based, teller-based models. So you couldn’t put a branch out in a rural area and expect it to be profitable.”
Rhyne uses the example of hyperinflation in Latin America to illustrate why potential customers don't have bank accounts, and concludes the article by noting that digital payments “are going to be essential” over the next decade.

<a href="https://www.raconteur.net/">Raconteur</a> is a publisher of “special-interest content and research” whose special reports are inserted into the printed version of The Times (UK). Read the full article <a href="https://www.raconteur.net/finance/financial-inclusion-banked">here</a>.

Raconteur Features Elisabeth Rhyne in “Challenges in Banking the Unbanked”

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Extensive coverage of the "You Deserve to Know" (#YouDeserveToKnow) campaign in the national Ghanian media features quotes from <a href="https://www.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/bio/alexandra-rizzi">Alex Rizzi</a>, Director of the Smart Campaign.

"This series aims to equip clients with the knowledge they deserve to know to make the best financial decisions for themselves,” Rizzi stated in a <a href="https://www.pulse.com.gh/lifestyle/events/consumer-protection-global-consumer-advocate-launches-you-deserve-to-know-campaign/72tlsjv">Pulse</a> article. Coverage of the campaign also appeared in <a href="https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/financial-literacy-campaign-launched.html">Graphic Online</a> and <a href="https://citinewsroom.com/2019/02/26/global-consumer-advocate-launches-youdeservetoknow-campaign/">Citi Newsroom</a>.

The campaign focuses on improving the financial enabling environment by educating the public in two topic areas, transparency and fraud.

Listeners in Ghana can tune in to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/adom106.3/">Adom 106.3 FM</a> on Thursdays, 5:30 pm local time, to hear the programs. The episodes include drama and expert interviews on the topics. <a href="https://radio.modernghana.com/station/adom1063fm">Live streaming</a> of Adom 106.3 FM is also available.

The "You Deserve to Know" campaign is in collaboration with <a href="http://www.fiforumafrica.org/">Financial Inclusion Forum Africa</a>.

This Smart Campaign video below provides an introduction.

Smart Campaign's "You Deserve to Know" Radio Campaign Featured in Ghanaian Media

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In this 20-minute episode, Traynor and Anton-Diaz discuss the sobering findings of "Digital Finance and Data Security," and what happens when the systems that are focused on expanding financial inclusion are poorly designed and executed. They also talk through what new companies need to take into account as they break into the market.

Listen and read Hathaway's accompanying post on the <a href="https://www.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/good-intentions-bad-security-podcast-episode-delves-into-cfi-research-on-data-security-in-digital-finance">CFI Blog</a>.  Below, download the CFI research that inspired this episode.

Podcast Focuses on CFI Data Security Report

The organizations' digital client research collaboration was announced in December, 2018, on the heels of a client protection research assessment conducted on the firm’s operations in Kenya. Tala is the leading consumer lending app in emerging markets.

The Smart Campaign’s goal following research with <a href="https://tala.co/">Tala</a> and other providers is industry standards for digital lenders, set to be released in 2019.

“Partnering with providers is crucial for establishing standards for digital credit that are sustainable for the industry while ensuring that the most vulnerable clients are protected. Tala has demonstrated a commitment to the client protection principles by engaging in an in-depth examination of their practices,” said Barres, who is also a CFI Vice President.

For more information, read the Smart Campaign’s <a href="http://smartcampaign.org/news-a-highlights/whats-happening/70-2014/1190-tala-and-the-smart-campaign-partner-on-digital-client-protection">press release</a> on the partnership.

<a href="https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/">Crowdfund Insider</a> is a digital media outlet which provides crowdfunding, Blockchain and fintech news and information.

Read the full article <a href="https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2018/12/142859-tala-partners-with-smart-campaign-for-digital-client-protection/">here</a>.

Smart Campaign-Tala Partnership for Digital Client Protection featured in Crowdfund Insider

Isabelle Barres, Global Director of the <a href="http://smartcampaign.org/">Smart Campaign</a> and a CFI Vice President, was interviewed for the <a href="https://fi.11fs.com/444">Dec. 21 edition of the FinTech Insider "Insights" podcast</a>, which gives listeners an overview of financial inclusion, financial health and financial literacy.

The goal of financial inclusion is not only providing access to financial products and services, but also ensuring their usage improves financial health, she said.

"An individual is financially healthy when a number of conditions are met," Barres noted. These include being able to balance income and expense streams, build and maintain financial reserves, plan for the future, manage existing debts, as well as the ability to plan for the future and plan for financial shocks along the way.

Barres also discussed CFI's efforts to these ends. "What we focus on is mostly global issues related to financial inclusion and the extent to which we can foster a better ecosystem to encourage financial inclusion."

Director of Smart Campaign Featured in Podcast on Financial Inclusion and Health

Financial Inclusion 101

Financial Health

In November 2018, <a href="/bio/deborah-drake">Deborah Drake</a> spoke at the MIT Legatum Leadership Forum – Zambezi Week 2018, a leadership boot camp for African entrepreneurs excelling in inclusive innovations, sharing her experience in impact investing and financial service provider governance capacity building across the continent.

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Deborah Drake Speaks at Leadership Boot Camp for African Entrepreneurs at MIT

Money is a crucial ingredient for starting and growing companies. Debt is by far the dominant form of outside funding. "We hear a lot about the gap in venture capital funding for women, but the vast majority of women who need capital are not forming hyper-growth startups. They are starting small businesses to pursue economic freedom, flexibility, and independence. The financial system is not serving them well, and we're very much failing women of color in particular," said Catherine Berman, CEO and co-founder of CNote, an impact investing platform whose mission is to close the wealth gap in the US. CNote is part of Mastercard Start Path, a program that supports high-potential startups around the world.

How Mastercard Helps Women Entrpreneuers Get the Loans They Need

For the financial services industry, Facebook’s new crypto currency, Libra, is yet another warning that digital technology is chipping away at the foundation of traditional business models.
Given the proposition that crypto currencies can supplant sovereign money, bankers and consumer fintech companies are backed into a corner. Regulated institutions, at least, are incentivized to side with central banks who supply credit and liquidity, and with regulators who grant their operating licenses.

Cryptocurrency: Facebook's Libra - is this how we get to responsible fintech?

South African digital lender <a href="https://www.lulalend.co.za/">Lulalend</a> has raised a $6.5 million Series A round co-led by IFC and Quona Capital.
The Cape Town based startup uses an online application process and internal credit metrics to provide short-term loans to small and medium sized businesses that are often unable to obtain working capital.

Lulalend will use the round to build its tech and data team and improve its ability to reach more <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smallandmidsizeenterprises.asp">SMEs</a> in South Africa, according CEO Trevor Gosling—who co-founded the startup in 2014 with Neil Welman.

“The biggest thing is strengthening our balance sheet so we can access traditional debt funding to grow our loan book,” Gosling told TechCrunch on a call.

South African SME finance startup Lulalend raises $6.5M Series A

South African startup Lulalend, an online automated provider of short-term funding for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has raised Series A funding of US$6.5 million to help it scale.

Founded in 2014 by Trevor Gosling and Neil Welman, <a href="https://www.lulalend.co.za/">Lulalend</a> utilises proprietary credit scoring technology to enable it to provide quick decisions, fast funding, and transparent pricing to SMEs.

The startup <a href="http://disrupt-africa.com/2016/10/sas-lulalend-raises-fresh-funding-round/">last raised funding in 2016</a>, and has now taken on US$6.5 million in investment in a round co-led by <a href="http://www.ifc.org/">IFC</a>and <a href="http://www.quona.com/">Quona Capital</a>, with participation from existing investors Accion Venture Lab and Newid Capital. The new funding will help Lulalend scale in response to South Africa’s significant funding gap for small businesses.

“69 per cent of small and medium-sized businesses in South Africa say that access to working capital would help their businesses grow,” said Trevor Gosling, co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Lulalend.

SA fintech startup Lulalend raises $6.5m Series A funding round

South African startup Lulalend, an online automated provider of short-term funding for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has raised Series A funding of US$6.5 million to help it scale.

Founded in 2014 by Trevor Gosling and Neil Welman, <a href="https://www.lulalend.co.za/">Lulalend</a> utilises proprietary credit scoring technology to enable it to provide quick decisions, fast funding, and transparent pricing to SMEs.

The startup <a href="http://disrupt-africa.com/2016/10/sas-lulalend-raises-fresh-funding-round/">last raised funding in 2016</a>, and has now taken on US$6.5 million in investment in a round co-led by <a href="http://www.ifc.org/">IFC</a> and <a href="http://www.quona.com/">Quona Capital</a>, with participation from existing investors Accion Venture Lab and Newid Capital. The new funding will help Lulalend scale in response to South Africa’s significant funding gap for small businesses.

Cape Town based fintech startup <a href="https://www.lulalend.co.za/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lulalend</a> has closed a $6.5-million (R92-million) Series-A round led by the World Bank’s <a href="https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/corp_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">IFC</a> and <a href="https://quona.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Quona Capital</a>.

The startup, which was founded in 2014 by CTO Neil Welman and CEO Trevor Gosling (pictured above, left and right, respectively), provides short-term loans to small businesses via an online platform (it typically lends out R150 000 over a six-month term period).

In a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/26/south-african-sme-finance-startup-lulalend-raises-6-5m-series-a/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">report</a> today, TechCrunch said Lulalend will use the investment to develop its tech and data team and improve its ability to reach more small businesses to finance.

SA fintech LulaLend raises $6.5m from the IFC, Quona Capital

African fintech has taken center stage for the <a href="https://catalyst-fund.org/">Catalyst Fund</a>, a JP Morgan Chase and Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation-backed accelerator that provides mentorship and non-equity funding to emerging markets startups.
The organization announced its 2019 startup cohort and three out of the four finance ventures — <a href="https://chippercash.com/">Chipper Cash</a>, <a href="https://www.salutat.io/">Salutat</a> and <a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/turaco">Turaco</a> — have an Africa focus (Brazil-based venture Diin, was the fourth).

Catalyst Fund, which is managed by <a href="https://bfaglobal.com/about-us/">global tech consulting firm BFA</a>,  also released its <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/564afbe2e4b07f8c73636439/t/5d07cf84c4dd210001d832aa/1560793715283/Evaluation+Report.pdf">latest evaluation report</a>, which showed 60% of the organization’s portfolio startups are located in Africa.

African fintech dominates Catalyst Fund’s 2019 startup cohort

MetLife Foundation and Visa, Accion and IFC have announced the winners of the Inclusive Fintech 50, a competition launched in February to help early-stage fintech companies attract capital and resources to benefit the world’s 3 billion financially underserved people.

The 50 winners demonstrate the power of financial technology to expand access, usage, and quality of financial services in advanced and emerging markets.

Approximately 30 percent of the winners provide credit products to underserved segments including MSMEs, and approximately 25 percent offer infrastructure solutions like biometrics software that enable financial institutions to expand access to previously excluded groups.

Here are the African startups declared winners of the Inclusive Fintech 50 Global Competition

Sub-Sahara Africa is the favoured region for top fintech companies aimed at improving financial inclusion to operate in, if the names of those listed as part of the <a href="https://www.inclusivefintech50.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Inclusive Fintech 50</a> initiative is anything to go by.

The initiative — run by <a href="http://www.metlife.org/">MetLife Foundation</a>, <a href="https://usa.visa.com/visa-everywhere/blog.html">Visa</a>, non-profit <a href="https://www.accion.org/venturelab">Accion</a> and World Bank member <a href="http://www.ifc.org/">IFC</a>— aims to recognise the top early-stage fintechs that contribute to financial inclusion around the world.

Fintechs focused on sub-Saharan Africa account for 16, or a third of the 50 companies selected for the list, followed by 20% who say South Asia is their exclusive market.

Sub-Sahara Africa is top market for those that made Inclusive Fintech 50 list

Twenty startups operating in Africa have been named in the Inclusive Fintech 50, a global competition to elevate early-stage fintechs driving financial inclusion.

The <a href="http://www.inclusivefintech50.com/winners">competition</a> was run by MetLife Foundation and Visa, in partnership with global non-profit Accion and IFC, with the goal of helping early-stage fintech companies attract capital and resources.

The 50 winners were selected from 400 eligible applicants and demonstrate the power of financial technology to expand access, usage, and quality of financial services in advanced and emerging markets.

Around 30 per cent of the winners provide credit products to underserved segments including MSMEs, and approximately 25 per cent offer infrastructure solutions. Fintech startups offering insurance, payments and remittances services, and savings and personal financial management tools each made up approximately 15 percent of the winners.

20 Africa-focused startups named in Inclusive Fintech 50

<a href="https://www.accion.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Accion</a>, a non-profit that seeks to boost financial inclusion aroundn the world, has announced the “Inclusive Fintech 50” list recognizing Fintechs that are helping to accomplish the goal of inclusion. The project has been completed in partnership with the MetLife Foundation, Visa, and the IFC.

Accion states that the winners reach a combined 8 million customers with approximately 30% of the winners provide credit products to underserved segments including MSMEs, and approximately 25% percent offer infrastructure solutions like biometrics software that enable financial institutions to expand access to previously excluded groups.

Fintech is frequently touted as providing advanced financial services to the underbanked – or the non-banked – segments of society. Increasingly, everyone in the world has a smartphone. These mini-personal computers are capable of being the platform to a wide array of financial services previously unattainable for the masses. Accion says there are about 3 billion financially underserved people globally.

Inclusive Fintech 50 List Announced

CREDITENABLE, an analytics solution for small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) lenders and borrowers, has won a place in the Visa-backed Inclusive Fintech 50 competition.

The firm, which has offices in London and Mumbai, provides global analytics tools that enable lenders to assess SME borrowers more quickly and effectively. It uses numerous proprietary AI technologies to address what it sees as one of the world’s “most dysfunctional credit gaps”.

Inclusive Fintech 50 is a competition funded by MetLife Foundation and Visa, with support from Accion and IFC. It is designed to recognise early-stage fintechs driving financial inclusion in both emerging and advanced markets around the world, especially those helping innovate for underserved customer groups in credit, insurance, payments and remittances, infrastructure and personal finance.

SME analytics firm CreditEnable wins place in financial inclusion competition

Fintech is one of the most attractive tech sectors for investment in Africa — and Nigeria, together with South Africa and Kenya, is leading the way on the continent when it comes to the number of hot fintech investments.

A <a href="https://partechpartners.com/documents/6/2019.03.22_-_Africa_Tech_Startups_raises_1.163B_in_2018_Partech-Report_nQIOkE7.pdf">report </a>(opens as a PDF) released in March by French venture capital (VC) firm Partech Africa found that at least 33% of total funding raised by African tech startups last year was in the fintech sector, with a total of 42 deals accounting for $379-million.

When it comes to disclosed 2018 deals of over $5-million, five Nigerian startups fintech startups — <a href="http://www.mines.io/">Mines</a>, <a href="https://flutterwave.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Flutterwave</a>, <a href="https://www.mypaga.com/">Paga</a>, <a href="https://paystack.com/">Paystack</a> and <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Mwwl2HsWWM5t4mnRgty188l3mx4eCgo33wV_Gf2hYVnMaABxJ84TJvyWh-0iEaJLc25Ez1N6RqvcvDgeNHrT5oR7IaaRN4fqJedpzXyGmIDbKjWBdyCsOs5JNS4kLKPm3Mh7lm2A6CnB1SNXJw5B7h7SNEG_Uf7WGINZKAa5TvA=&amp;c=kRpZ68xQgIfva-6unkhN7SmiOVQy8tyBRIAkK1oP7F8Vmmur4w6j9w==&amp;ch=TrCOKV0bZ95CP-vnxuevomkSXxRBs0fM7nnrLPgRRYTCPTHmOs3Hxg==">Lidya</a> — raised close to $50-million, against South Africa’s Jumo and Yoco collective over $80-million last year.

Six Nigerian fintech startups to keep an eye on

Landing funding for any entrepreneur can make or break your business. These ten entrepreneurs successfully landed funding and grew their businesses into well-known profitable companies.

But it isn’t just that investors funded them, it’s how they grew their businesses into something investors would support and how they sealed the deal.

10 South African Entrepreneurs Who Landed Funding – And How They Did It

Fintech is one of the most attractive tech sectors for investment in Africa — and Nigeria, together with South Africa and Kenya, is leading the way on the continent when it comes to the number of hot fintech investments.

A report (opens as a PDF) released in March by French venture capital (VC) firm Partech Africa found that at least 33% of total funding raised by African tech startups last year was in the fintech sector, with a total of 42 deals accounting for $379-million.

When it comes to disclosed 2018 deals of over $5-million, five Nigerian startups fintech startups — Mines, Flutterwave, Paga, Paystack and Lidya — raised close to $50-million, against South Africa’s Jumo and Yoco collective over $80-million last year.

Welcome back to the third episode of this brand new show, Fintech Insider USA! In this episode, we are extremely excited to bring you a brilliant interview with Michael Schlein, CEO and president at Accion!

Sam and Michael sit down to talk about the importance of financial inclusion and what Accion is doing to achieve that goal globally. Accion is a global non profit organsation dedicated to create a truly digitally inclusive world. What needs to be done to achieve this goal and what tools are used to reach the over 3 billion people who would otherwise be excluded from the financial system?

Next up, Sam and Michael talk about what the satellite and GPS industry can do for insurtech solutions such as bike insurance and single family farmers and explains why India is extremely exciting right now! Michael tells us his thoughts on what is the biggest global hold up is at the moment and what areas need improvement. Also, can you say that financial inclusion is only 1% finished?

Fintech Insider USA: Michael Schlein, Accion

In a new edition of Fintech Radar, Mexico regains its leadership as the largest Fintech ecosystem in Latin America with 394 Fintech startups, slightly ahead of Brazil, the region's second Fintech ecosystem with 380 startups, according to the latest available edition of the Fintech report in Latin America 2018: growth and consolidation published in November 2018 by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Finnovista.

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How Mastercard Helps Women Entrpreneuers Get the Loans They Need

Cryptocurrency: Facebook's Libra - is this how we get to responsible fintech?

South African SME finance startup Lulalend raises $6.5M Series A

SA fintech startup Lulalend raises $6.5m Series A funding round

SA fintech startup Lulalend raises $6.5m Series A funding round

SA fintech LulaLend raises $6.5m from the IFC, Quona Capital

From the Center for Financial Inclusion

In The Economist: Hema Bansal on Over-Indebtedness in Sri Lanka

In Euromoney: Smart Campaign's Isabelle Barres Poses Questions About Libra

In The New Times: Smart Campaign's Alex Rizzi Interviewed About Client Voices Project Survey in Rwanda

IIF Podcast Features Elisabeth Rhyne Discussing the Digital Customer Journey

Raconteur Features Elisabeth Rhyne in “Challenges in Banking the Unbanked”

Smart Campaign's "You Deserve to Know" Radio Campaign Featured in Ghanaian Media

Podcast Focuses on CFI Data Security Report

Smart Campaign-Tala Partnership for Digital Client Protection featured in Crowdfund Insider

Director of Smart Campaign Featured in Podcast on Financial Inclusion and Health

Deborah Drake Speaks at Leadership Boot Camp for African Entrepreneurs at MIT

African fintech dominates Catalyst Fund’s 2019 startup cohort

African fintech dominates Catalyst Fund’s 2019 startup cohort

Here are the African startups declared winners of the Inclusive Fintech 50 Global Competition

Sub-Sahara Africa is top market for those that made Inclusive Fintech 50 list

20 Africa-focused startups named in Inclusive Fintech 50

Inclusive Fintech 50 List Announced

SME analytics firm CreditEnable wins place in financial inclusion competition

Six Nigerian fintech startups to keep an eye on

10 South African Entrepreneurs Who Landed Funding – And How They Did It

Six Nigerian fintech startups to keep an eye on

Fintech Insider USA: Michael Schlein, Accion

The Mexican Fintech ecosystem regains leadership in Latin America and approaches the barrier of the 400 startups