Events

From Hype to Impact: What Stablecoins Mean for Financial Inclusion (Part 1)

This webinar discussed the role of stablecoins in advancing financial inclusion, with a specific focus on cross-border remittances.

Rethinking Finance to Address the Next Frontier in Food Systems Transformation

This webinar launches CGAP's new research on finance-enabled food systems transformation. Our new framework helps DFIs, impact investors, donors, and financial service providers identify and prioritize the financial solutions that best address today...

CGAP's Symposium 2025 - Rethinking Resilience

Our 2025 Symposium brought together around 200 multi-sectoral decision-makers who can drive positive change in a world that is getting more complicated.

Investing with Insight: How Data Is Changing the Game for Inclusive Fintechs

In this webinar, CGAP brought together leading fintech founders, innovative asset managers, and development finance institutions (DFIs) to unpack the complex landscape of financing fintechs that serve Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs).

Gender-Inclusive Carbon Markets: Innovative Solutions for Women's Participation and Benefits

This webinar examined how financial services and standardized approaches to measuring gender outcomes can create more inclusive carbon projects. Leading practitioners from across the carbon market ecosystem shared insights and practical examples of how innovative financing and impact measurement drive greater inclusion while enhancing project value.

Towards ‘Right-Fit’ IMM for Financial Inclusion Investing: What’s Missing and What’s Next?

Explore what’s missing and what’s next for impact measurement and management (IMM) in financial inclusion investing with a sharper focus on outcomes. Join CGAP, IFC, Global Partnerships, and Tyme to discuss key gaps, enablers, and actions needed to move the industry forward.

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.

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.

Digitization of Financial Institutions: Due Diligence Guidance for Investors

This guidance helps funders evaluate investments in digitally enabled businesses, based on CGAP’s five core principles for successful digitization. It aims to minimize the risks of failed implementations and is complemented by a Business Intelligence Module to identify value-creation opportunities through digitization using data analytics.

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...