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…

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…

Dear readers, On behalf of the entire Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A) team, we would like to wish you all a happy and prosperous new year 2019. We would like to take this opportunity to…

This blog was originally published on the World Bank Blogs website. Newly assigned to Dakar, Senegal, I must, of course, take steps to have water, electricity, internet and a bank account. For the…

This blog was originally published on the FinDev Gateway website. Some say regulatory issues, others cite fear of mission drift. But all of these can be overcome. Transformations in the…

The global prudential standards issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision represent major efforts to increase the resilience of banking systems around the world and thus reduce the…

This blog was originally published on the World Bank Blogs' website. Ceilings on lending rates remain a widely-used instrument in many EMDEs as well as developed economies. The economic and…