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Are E-Payments a Boost or Bane to FI2020?
> Posted by Jamie M. Zimmerman, Director, Global Assets Program, New America Foundation The Financial Inclusion 2020 campaign at the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion is building a movement...
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A Response to “Are E-Payments a Boost or Bane to FI2020?”
> Posted by Jeff Abrams and James Hokans, Bankable Frontier Associates The Financial Inclusion 2020 campaign at the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion is building a movement toward full...
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G2P Electronic Payments Leading to Increased Aid and Inclusion in LAC
> Posted by Solana Cozzo, LAC Prepaid Head, Senior Business Leader, MasterCard Worldwide The Financial Inclusion 2020 project at the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion is building a movement...
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Elections and Interruptions: Financial Inclusion Strategy Pitfalls
> Posted by Sonja E. Kelly, Fellow, CFI I was thrilled when I opened the paper this week to the news of Michelle Bachelet’s victory in Chile. The first female president in Chile, first elected in...
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Global Progress in Electronic Payment Systems
> Posted by Jeffrey Riecke, Communications Assistant, CFI Electronic payment systems are spreading so rapidly they’ve become a challenge to size up. Payment cards have been around in some form since...
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The Mexico Promise: A Better Microfinance Environment
> Posted by Sonja Kelly, Fellow, CFI Last week in Mexico City, tens of thousands of people took to the streets to voice their hope for a better Mexico. In a hotel that overlooked the demonstration,...
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Global Leaders Issue Commitments to Universal Financial Access by 2020
Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group > Posted by Center Staff Among the excitement of the World Bank Spring Meetings last week, key players in financial inclusion declared actionable...
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Financial Inclusion by 2020? It Depends.
> Posted by Sonja Kelly, Fellow, CFI In 2013, Elisabeth Rhyne was asked what she was particularly excited about as she looked forward to the future of financial inclusion. Her response? “A second...
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Calling All Inquiring Minds! Our New Research Fellows Program Is Accepting...
> Posted by Elisabeth Rhyne and Sonja E. Kelly, CFI We are looking for four research fellows to explore some of the most relevant and exciting questions facing the financial inclusion community....
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Announcing… CFI and Accion’s Research Fellows
> Posted by Sonja E. Kelly, CFI A couple months ago we announced a new program coming out of the Center for Financial Inclusion and Accion designed to produce actionable research for the...
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Are Commercial Banks Ready to Serve the Base of the Pyramid?
> Posted by Susy Cheston, Senior Advisor, CFI Of the 700 million new accounts that the Global Findex reports were opened from 2011 to 2014: Banks and other financial institutions accounted for 550...
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Ubiquity, Safety, and Utility: The Trifecta of Success in Financial Inclusion
> Posted by Michael Miebach, President, Middle East and Africa, MasterCard FI2020 Week is a global conversation on the key actions needed to advance financial inclusion, grounded in the findings of...
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Aging and Financial Inclusion: Steal These Ideas!
> Posted by Susy Cheston and Sonja E. Kelly, CFI Aging is an issue that we all hope to face personally, if we haven’t already. As we prepare to participate in European Microfinance Week, we are more...
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Six Recommendations on Financial Capability
> Posted by Susy Cheston, Senior Advisor, CFI A lot of money is being spent on financial education—and we’d like to see it spent more effectively. We still don’t know all that is needed about what...
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G2P and Gender: When Will Pakistani Women Be Able to Withdraw Their Own Money?
> Posted by Guy Stuart, Ph.D., Executive Director, Microfinance Opportunities Can government-to-person (G2P) payments to low-income beneficiaries translate into their financial inclusion? One way...
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New FI2020 E-Magazine: Beyond Access
> Posted by Center Staff Looking Beyond [Universal Financial] Access CFI defines Financial Inclusion as “a state in which everyone who can use them has access to a full suite of quality financial...
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The G2P Silver Bullet? Not So Fast.
> Posted by Elisabeth Rhyne, Managing Director, and Sonja Kelly, Director of Research, CFI The following post was originally published on NextBillion. As we approach the World Bank Annual Meetings...
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10 Things I’ve Learned from the CFI Fellows Program
> Posted by Sonja Kelly, Director of Research, CFI We’ve been running the CFI Fellows Program for almost two years, with generous funding this year from the Rockefeller Foundation. The program has...
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