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In a world shaped by climate shocks, conflict, fragile livelihoods, and rapid change, how can financial services truly meet the needs of low-income communities when 1.3 billion people globally still don’t have a bank account, let alone access to tools many of us take for granted?
Inclusive Finance Frontiers returns with a new season exploring how people-centered financial services can help vulnerable communities navigate uncertainty, build resilience, and improve their lives.
From Rwanda and Colombia to Sudan and beyond, this season brings you stories from the front lines—featuring global experts, regulators, banks, fintech innovators, humanitarian actors, and, most importantly, the people living with risk every day.
This is Season 3 - Trailer of CGAP's podcast, Inclusive Finance Frontiers.
Transcript
Lamis Daoud: In a world shaped by climate shocks, conflict, fragile livelihoods, and rapid change, how can financial services meet the needs of low-income communities?
Follow Inclusive Finance Frontiers podcast to join me, your host, Lamis Daoud, for a new season where we explore how financial services—when designed with people at the center—can help vulnerable communities overcome challenges and improve their lives.
Grecium Kachingwe: I had a proper storage house before, but it was one that the floods damaged... Right now, I am happy that my stock is safe with the assistance of the recovery loan, enabling me to buy items in bulk for resale.
Gladys Kwalisima: I save with a savings group... We have just started saving three months ago... I am saving so I buy a plot of land and build a house.
Long Nath: For my dream, I still want to open a salon shop... But to expand it into a larger [one]… If I rely only on my earnings, it’s not enough—it’s too little.
Lamis Daoud: What’s keeping people—especially women—on the margins of the formal financial system, and what innovations are actually helping bring them in? How can responsibly used data help banks, fintechs, and policymakers design smarter products and more effective policies? And how can fractured financial systems deliver help to people faster, when time matters most?
This season takes us to Rwanda, Colombia, Sudan, and beyond. Along the way, we hear from global experts, regulators, banks, fintech innovators, humanitarian actors, and—most importantly—the people living with uncertainty every day.
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