Nov 25, 2019
Over the past decade, regulations in emerging financial markets have undergone many changes that have raised both optimism and concern within the financial inclusion community. The good news first:…
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Nov 11, 2019
In his second blog (first blog here) for Making Finance Work for Africa, Stephan Wolf, CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) discusses how the LEI can create added value for…
Sep 30, 2019
Plugging the gap from above
Africa is uniquely placed to trade with growing markets in the East, established markets in the West, and domestic markets on her own continent. In order to benefit from…
Sep 10, 2019
In the first blog for Making Finance Work for Africa, Stephan Wolf, CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) discusses how African economies could benefit from adopting the…
Jul 25, 2019
This blog was originally published on the CGAP website.
In 2008, two years after M-Pesa was launched in Kenya, mobile money was introduced in Côte d’Ivoire. Since then, all three of the country’s…
Jun 26, 2019
This blog was originally published on the CGAP website.
CGAP’s research in two fast-growing digital credit markets, Kenya and Tanzania, reveals that digital credit is not yet living up to its…
May 08, 2019
The trend towards digital financial products combined with digital customer interactions increases the financial sector’s exposure to cyber risks. According to PwC, 46 percent of bank customers…