Events

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.

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.

Global Landscape: Data Trails of Digitally Included Poor (DIP) People

In this webinar, the authors will present the main findings from research on the growing availability of data trails and shed light on the gender gaps and other trends identified in the data trails of DIP people.

Slicing the Small Business Pie: Opportunities and Challenges in Segmenting MSEs

CGAP’s Focus Note highlights the importance of segmentation of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) for designing relevant financial services and targeted support mechanisms, and identifies five salient dimensions of segmentation. Participants discussed the opportunities and challenges in effective segmentation.

Combining Open Finance and Data Protection for Low-Income Consumers

In this webinar, the authors of a new CGAP Technical Note on open finance discussed how to address data protection concerns in an open finance world so that wary, low-income consumers in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs) can take advantage of what open finance has to offer.

The Promise and Risk of Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) for Micro and Small Enterprises

This session explored different Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) models, the benefits of these models to MSEs, as well as the challenges and opportunities to scale these offerings in a sustainable manner. It also explored consumer protection challenges that are becoming more relevant as the BNPL market grows.

Rural Stars: Making Rural Agents Viable for Cocoa Farmers in Indonesia

IDEO Last Mile Money designers presented key findings in the rural-agent model, business viability, and the importance of women agents. A panel of experts also discussed the opportunities and challenges they have faced in delivering digital payments and services to rural customers.

Significance of Informal Finance for MSEs

Speakers presented findings from CGAP's demand-driven market sizing study of MSEs in Kenya, Nigeria, India and Peru.

Digitizing Micro & Small Enterprises for Financial Inclusion: Opportunities & Challenges

In this webinar, experts discussed opportunities and challenges MSEs face in embracing digitization and how stakeholders in the financial inclusion community can support efforts to build trust in fintech providers.

Financial Services for Platform Workers: Fulfilling the Demand

Speakers highlighted key findings from a CGAP publication on the demand for and supply of financial services for platform workers/sellers, based on detailed qualitative research in five countries.