To kick of Financial Inclusion Week 2017, Elisabeth Rhyne, Managing Director of The Center for Financial Inclusion will join Garance Wattez-Richard, Head of AXA Emerging Customers for a digital fireside chat. During the webinar, Rhyne and Wattez-Richard will discuss how new products and partnerships are opening up new potential in the financial inclusion space. They will take a specific look at how AXA is developing new products and partnerships to reach emerging customers.

Digital Fireside Chat: How are New Products and New Partnerships Unlocking Access to Insurance

To kick off Financial Inclusion Week 2018, Tess Johnson, research associate at the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, sat down with CreditMantri co-founder Gowri Mukherjee for a conversation highlighting the fintech perspective on getting inclusion right. CreditMantri is a fintech company based in Chennai, India that aims to reinvent the credit landscape by giving consumers access to responsible and transparent credit. 
Financial Inclusion Week is made possible through the contributions of partner organizations across the globe, and through numerous sponsors and supporters. For more information, please visit financialinclusionweek.org

Getting Inclusion Right Podcast with Gowri Mukherjee

For the second part of our Financial Inclusion Week 2018 podcast series, Tess Johnson, research associate at the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, sat down with Accion in the U.S. CEO Gina Harman for a conversation highlighting the domestic U.S. perspective on getting inclusion right. Accion in the U.S. collaborates with all four Accion U.S.-based lending organizations to reach entrepreneurs on the ground and online with the latest innovations in mission-based small business lending.

Financial Inclusion Week is made possible through the contributions of partner organizations across the globe, and through numerous sponsors and supporters.

Getting Inclusion Right Podcast with Gina Harman

For the final part of our Financial Inclusion Week 2018 podcast series, Tess Johnson, research associate at the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, sat down with former CFI Fellow and Independent Consultant Alexis Beggs Olsen for a conversation highlighting a specific case study on getting inclusion right. This episode, based on our publication Uniting Tech and Touch: Why Centaur Products Are Better for Consumers and Providers – Evidence from Kenya, explores both some remaining obstacles and concrete solutions to getting effective human touch right in Kenya’s digital financial landscape.

Getting Inclusion Right Podcast with Alexis Beggs Olsen

For Financial Inclusion Week 2019, CFI sought out a small group of financial inclusion thought leaders to comment and take a position on this year’s theme, “Financial Inclusion: For What?” CFI Director of Communications Virginia Moore sat down with Bobbi Gray (Grameen Foundation), Till Bruett (DAI), and Shivani Siroya (Tala) to discuss the theme and evaluate our four proposed answers to it: financial health, sustainable development, equity, and the bottom line. They examine ways in which these answers complement or conflict with one another, and assess how the industry should measure its success, among other topics. 

For more information, events, blog posts -- and even a quiz to determine which proposed answer you agree most with -- please visit our Financial Inclusion Week page: https://www.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/financial-inclusion-week-2019

Podcast: Financial Inclusion: For What?

The Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI) is an independent think tank housed at Accion that works to better serve, protect and empower clients. We learn, test and share insights; promote concrete solutions; and advocate for inclusive, responsible finance that helps – not harms – individuals. We collaborate with stakeholders globally to achieve our goal of enabling 3 billion people who are left out of – or poorly served by – the financial sector to improve their lives.