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    Blog
    04 August 2014

    bKash Bangladesh: What Explains its Fast Start?

    bKash is the fastest growing provider of mobile financial services in Bangladesh, having registered 11 million accounts in just 30 months. Several factors have combined to help bKash be an early success in a relatively new market.
    Publication
    29 July 2014

    bKash Bangladesh: A Fast Start for Mobile Financial Services

    bKash launched in the second half of 2011, grew to 2 million accounts by the end of 2012, and shot up to 11 million registered accounts by the end of 2013.
    Blog
    12 November 2013

    Can MFIs Leverage Mobile Banking to Serve Customers Better?

    When given the choice of using a mobile payment platform - bKash - or a traditional bank branch, 42% of business borrowers in a BRAC pilot chose to use both options for making payments.
    Blog
    29 August 2016

    Daily Diaries Reveal Bangladesh’s Shifting Financial Landscape

    In Bangladesh, 50 respondents are providing full daily details of all transactions in an ongoing financial diaries project. This project aims to provide insights into the money management behavior of low-income rural Bangladeshis. What have the diaries revealed so far?
    Blog
    24 July 2018

    2017 Global Findex: Behind the Numbers on Bangladesh

    Bangladesh has made great strides toward financial inclusion, but many challenges remain -- including one of the largest gender gaps in the world.
    Blog
    26 October 2015

    How Hard Is It to Use Mobile Money as a Rural Bangladeshi Woman?

    Women in Bangladesh have one of the lowest rates of mobile money usage in the world. Does the dearth of usage indicate a lack of appropriate products and services? Just how hard is it to use mobile money if you are a rural Bangladeshi woman?
    Blog
    14 June 2018

    Bank-Led Digital Finance: Who’s Really Leading?

    In countries where regulators favor “bank-led” digital finance models, nonbanks are playing important – even dominant – roles in digital finance.
    Blog
    12 March 2015

    Telenor’s Shared Agents: Digital Finance Catalyst for Bangladesh?

    New business models for agent networks, such as shared agent networks, are emerging and may offer more sustainable, competitive and efficient mobile financial services.
    Blog
    10 September 2012

    The Growth of Mobile Financial Services in Bangladesh

    In early 2010, we blogged about the steps identified for mobile financial services to take off in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has moved partly down this path. A newly released overview report on Mobile Financial Services by Bangladesh’s Central Bank highlights the progress achieved two years on.
    Blog
    06 June 2013

    Comparing Branchless Banking in Bangladesh and Pakistan

    What can be learned from benchmarking Bangladesh to the regional leader Pakistan which had begun two years earlier in 2009? Both have similar populations, mobile penetration and income levels making the comparison even more interesting.
    Blog
    06 November 2013

    FI2020: Scarcity, Tunneling and Financial Inclusion

    The pressure and distraction of living in scarcity - constantly having too little and constantly worrying about making day-to-day ends meet - ultimately affects poor people's decision-making abilities. Evidence suggests that this "scarcity" framework has serious implications for financial inclusion, especially regarding the uptake of new products and services.
    Blog
    03 February 2015

    Digital Finance in Bangladesh: Where are all the Women?

    Bangladesh has long been a success story for women’s financial inclusion, but in terms of digital finance, the story is very different.
    Publication
    13 February 2015

    Promoting Competition in Mobile Payments: The Role of USSD

    Unstructured supplementary service data (USSD), a communications service controlled by mobile network operators, is a critical piece of infrastructure used to provide mobile financial services on most phones, at low cost, and without requiring access to the user’s SIM card.
    Blog
    04 November 2014

    The Seismic Implications of Digital Financial Inclusion

    Policy makers, regulators, and supervisors in countries where digital financial inclusion is expanding exponentially see the financial inclusion promise clearly. Yet, they are grappling with the fast-changing risk picture.
    Blog
    17 February 2015

    What is USSD & Why Does it Matter for Mobile Financial Services?

    USSD - unstructured supplementary service data - is currently the best available communications technology to deliver mobile financial services to low-income customers.
    Blog
    10 March 2015

    What is Digital Financial Inclusion and Why Does it Matter?

    A new Brief from CGAP aims to provide national and global policy makers with a clear picture of the rapid development of digital financial services for the poor and the need for their attention and informed understanding.
    Blog
    26 March 2013

    Financial Inclusion In 2012: South Asian Highlights

    Recent trends in South Asia reveal measured growth for microfinance, and a steady increase in branchless banking networks, across the region.
    Blog
    18 December 2015

    Six Takeaways from Rwanda’s Financial Inclusion Insights Survey

    Even though Rwanda has low rates of technical literacy and handset usage, digital financial services have reached the same levels of active usage as Ghana, which has a much more "mobile-ready" population.
    Blog
    30 October 2017

    What Should We Realistically Expect from Regulatory Sandboxes?

    Just how far could regulatory sandboxes go toward spurring financial innovations in low-income countries?
    Blog
    08 December 2015

    Technology Must Solve Real Problems for Low-Income Customers

    We are just scratching the surface of what digital technology can do for low-income consumers. Mobile has been a game changer, but what's next? There are even more powerful digital tools in the pipeline.

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