Recent Blogs
Blog
Sudan Dispatch: Inclusive Finance in Times of Crisis
Recent fighting in Sudan has turned the economy upside down and displaced thousands. Our latest blog asks what roles financial services are playing in the unfolding crisis, and why? What must happen next for inclusive finance in Sudan?Blog
How Can Data Sharing Support Inclusion?
Data sharing can unlock a number of opportunities for the financial inclusion of poor individuals in EMDEs. To understand how, we must look at the various models of data sharing and how they may result in an inclusive data ecosystem.Blog
How Can Funders Promote Interoperable Payments?
Interoperability can make digital payments more convenient and useful for low-income customers. Find out how funders can support the development of interoperable payments systems.Blog
Comparing India’s UPI and Brazil’s New Instant Payment System, PIX
Many countries are pressing forward with new systems to enable better, faster digital payments. Brazil's instant payment system, PIX, is among the newest and most exciting. How does it compare to India's well-known UPI system?Blog
Beyond Hackathons: Reaching Developers with Your Digital Finance APIs
Hackathons aren't the only way for a digital financial services provider to engage third parties with its open APIs.Blog
API Technology Jargon: What Business Leaders Need to Know
Here are three design principles that financial services providers should keep in mind when making technology decisions related to their open API products.Blog
Customers Want Data Protection: How Can Open API Providers Deliver?
Open APIs can benefit digital financial services providers and low-income customers alike, but they pose data protection and privacy challenges. Here are some tips on how providers can address those challenges.Blog
Digital Finance APIs Come with Risks – Here’s One Way to Manage Them
Digital financial services providers can manage risks associated with open APIs by adopting standardized legal contracts with partners and third parties. Here are six key issues that a contract should clarify, along with a contract template.Blog
How Paystack’s APIs Are Enabling Entrepreneurs in Nigeria
Paystack's open APIs for digital payments are helping thousands of African companies to launch new business models and deepen customer relationships.Blog
Zoona Is Putting APIs at the Core of Its Business: Here’s Why
What began as a side project has become central to Zoona's plans for growth. In this blog post, Zoona executives Brett Magrath and Bridgid Thomson discuss the importance of APIs at the company.Blog
A Vision for Collaborative Customer ID Verification in Africa
Technology has the capacity to improve financial inclusion in Africa, but this value can be unlocked only if African leaders reduce the burden of customer ID checks.Blog
BTPN Wow! Using Open APIs to Bring E-Commerce to Its 250,000 Agents
By connecting its agents to e-commerce platforms, BTPN is giving agents and end-customers in Indonesia more reasons to use its mobile banking service.Blog
4 Keys to a Successful Developer Portal for Digital Finance APIs
Here are some practical tips on how digital financial services providers can build a first-rate developer portal for their APIs.Blog
A New Generation of Government-to-Person Payments Is Emerging
Advances in payment infrastructure are enabling governments to channel payments through multiple providers, giving people greater choice over how to receive payments. This is an important shift with implications for financial services providers, recipients of government payments and financial inclusion.Blog
Should Digital Financial Services Providers Prioritize Open APIs?
Learn about the step-by-step process one provider took to determine whether APIs aligned with its goals and which APIs to prioritize.Blog
You’ve Opened APIs...Now What?
Ready to launch an open API prod-uct? Here are five tips on building a go-to-market strategy and engaging developers from Sila’s Shamir Karkal.Blog
Should Funders Support Switches for Mobile Payment Interoperability?
Mobile payment switches aren’t the only path to interoperable financial systems – and they aren’t always the best path. Here are three questions funders should ask before they commit to building a switch.Blog
Building Open APIs for Digital Finance? Think Sprints, Not Marathon
Digital financial services provides are finding that traditional software development approaches are not ideal for opening APIs. Here’s a better approach.Blog
It’s Time to Deregulate Agent Cash In/Cash Out
Agent regulations often treat agents like extensions of bank branches. But the reality is that many agents conduct a far more limited range of financial activities and should be regulated differently.Blog