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> Posted by Camilla Nestor, Vice President of Microfinance Programs at Grameen Foundation
This post is part of the Center for Financial Inclusion’s Expert Exchange: Building A Movement Toward Financial Inclusion by 2020, cultivating conversation around the goal of reaching full financial inclusion by 2020. For questions about this series, write to , Fellow, Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International.
In five years, how will the poor be accessing financial services? If we could step back in time to 2006 with the microfinance sector scaling rapidly across the globe, it would have been hard to imagine that today mobile money users would outstrip all banked individuals in some countries, or that in other countries commercial banks would have overtaken microfinance institution (MFI) outreach to the poor in just a few years.
CGAP reports that 2.7 billion people globally remain unbanked around the world, a gap that requires a depth and breadth of financial services to truly address. We’ve learned that scale alone is not the answer; it must be accompanied by approaches that keep client well-being at the center. However, we still have not found an approach that meets this challenge in a way that addresses both scale and client needs at the same time. There are a number of intriguing scenarios for how the poor could be accessing appropriate financial products and services in the future, all of which draw on players beyond the traditional microfinance space. Here are three potential scenarios: Read the rest of this entry »
> Posted by Bob Kennedy, Executive Director of WDI and Tom Lantos Professor of Business Administration, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
This post is part of the Center for Financial Inclusion’s Expert Exchange: Building A Movement Toward Financial Inclusion by 2020, cultivating conversation around the goal of reaching full financial inclusion by 2020. For further questions about this series, write to , Fellow, Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International.
Last month, Citi Foundation hosted a very interesting day-long roundtable that focused on the Center for Financial Inclusion’s (CFI) report on “Opportunities and Obstacles to Financial Inclusion.” Citi Foundation’s Graham MacMillan posted on the report when it was issued in July.
This is an important report because it raises significant issues for the microfinance sector, and I strongly recommend that anyone interested in microfinance, poverty reduction, or “development through enterprise” read through it (download free pdf version here). Co-authors Elisabeth Rhyne, managing director of CFI, and Anita Gardeva, CFI senior analyst, conducted a comprehensive survey of industry participants to get their views on “how to make full financial participation a reality.” Read the rest of this entry »
> Posted by Lisa Hall, President & CEO of Calvert Foundation
This post is part of the Center for Financial Inclusion’s Expert Exchange: Building A Movement Toward Financial Inclusion by 2020, cultivating conversation around the goal of reaching full financial inclusion by 2020. For further questions about this series, write to , Fellow, Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International.
In September, I had the opportunity to participate in a dialogue with more than 45 other participants as part of a roundtable hosted by ACCION’s Center for Financial Inclusion. The purpose of this new blog is to continue the conversation we started that day – and I am honored to be the first to post here.
At Calvert Foundation, we often talk about impact investing as a virtuous circle, one that creates empowerment, opportunity, and engagement by connecting investors, underprivileged individuals, and communities. This connection – to me – is the ultimate goal of financial inclusion. It’s about a connected circle of people, with mutual benefit for all the stakeholders involved, and with clients at the center. Read the rest of this entry »
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