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A Green Future for All: How Financial Services Can Build More Inclusive Carbon Markets

As carbon markets become a vital tool for funding the global transition to a sustainable economy, it is essential that they also serve to create a more equitable and just transition for all. This can only be realized if carbon markets meaningfully include and benefit underserved communities by eliminating barriers to participation and making them more inclusive and impactful. Join us for a discussion on the important role financial services can play in building more inclusive carbon markets.
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Young Women's Financial Inclusion: What Works

CGAP has compiled insights from two decades of industry experience showing how to offer customized financial inclusion strategies for different segments of young women. Join us to learn more about five key components of these strategies – product design, product delivery, financial capability building, social intermediation, and commercial viability – and hear firsthand practitioner perspectives on applying these strategies to reach young women at different stages of financial independence.
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Digitization of Financial Institutions: Due Diligence Guidance for Investors

Learn more about CGAP's digital implementation assessment guidance, and how investors can reduce the risks of failed digital implementations and incentivize financial service providers to adopt digital technology in a way that generates business and customer value.
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The Need for Gender-Disaggregated Data in the Financial Sector

While women-owned MSMEs represent about one-third of all businesses in emerging markets, they continue to face barriers when it comes to accessing capital and other financial services. The growth of Fintechs in developing countries offers a potential...
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Applying Gender-Intentional Credit Scoring

Evidence suggests that women have often demonstrate higher loan repayment rates than men, despite facing greater loan approval barriers, indicating the need for gender-intentional credit scoring. To learn more, a virtual workshop is being offered for lending service providers, credit risk managers, data scientists, and others working on credit scoring techniques and implementation strategies using Excel, R, and Python.
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Unlocking Rural CICO Agent Networks for Financial Inclusion

Digital financial services can help low-income customers withstand individual and climate shocks and improve their well-being. However, expanding Cash-In and Cash-Out (CICO) agent networks to rural areas is challenging. In this webinar, we'll discuss GCAP's research on agent networks, the importance of CICO networks for financial inclusion, and five key actions to expand rural networks at scale.
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Open Finance: Lessons from Brazil

This webinar features insights from CGAP research, as well as a panel discussion with experts from the Brazilian open finance ecosystem.
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Behind the Scenes with Inclusive Fintech Investors

Despite efforts to expand MSE finance, the credit gap remains at US$4.9 trillion. New tech-enabled business models can break down traditional barriers but require funding and access to suitable early-stage funding is scarce. In this webinar, we will discuss the potential role of fintech incubators and accelerators in supporting early-stage fintechs and providing linkages to the investment community and more.
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Incentivizing Gender Outcomes through Innovative Investment Structures

This webinar will highlight innovative models being used by a range of GLI ecosystem actors – a DFI, GLI advisory firm and a manager of catalytic capital - to integrate gender into investment structures, with a focus on the financial inclusion sector. By sharing these examples, this webinar aims to accelerate the uptake of these models.
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Digital Future of Microfinance: A Realistic Path Towards Big Dreams

CGAP has conducted a series of pilots and exercises to demonstrate how microfinance institutions can leverage technology to grow their business, deliver value to customers, and embark on the digital future. A virtual workshop will be held to share the findings from our work and discuss microfinance’s future.