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Archive

• 2019
  • Jun
    • Announcing the release of Financial Inclusion Insights survey datasets including anonymized latitude and longitude coordinates
  • May
    • InterMedia announces the release of the latest data and reports from the 6th Annual Bangladesh Financial Inclusion Insights surveys
  • Apr
    • Explore the FII Data Fiinder’s newest features, including the customer journey segmentation
  • Jan
    • Financial Inclusion sets a record high in Tanzania in 2018
• 2018
  • Dec
    • Pakistan achieved significant gains in financial inclusion in 2017, but growth is limited by the exclusion of women.
    • Financial inclusion in Uganda accelerated in 2017. New government policies should help private firms bring more excluded individuals into the financial inclusion fold
  • Nov
    • InterMedia's Webinar for Accion's Financial Inclusion Week 2018
  • Sep
    • Deepening Financial Inclusion in East Africa: Opportunities & Threats
  • Jun
    • In the Face of Economic Headwinds, Financial Inclusion is Declining in Nigeria
    • The rural poor clinch more financial accounts in Bangladesh
    • Mobile money is powering financial inclusion and the uptake of advanced digital financial services in Kenya
  • May
    • Announcing the Upcoming Release of the 5th Annual Financial Inclusion Insights Data and Reports
• 2017
  • Dec
    • Financial Inclusion in Bangladesh Receives a Mobile Money Boost: Insights from the 2016 FII Data
  • Nov
    • Financial Inclusion in India: Lessons from the 2016 FII Data
    • Financial Inclusion in Uganda: Highlights from the FII 2016 Data
    • One year later: What was the impact of demonetization on financial inclusion in India?
    • Financial Inclusion in Kenya: Highlights from the FII 2016 Data
  • Oct
    • Financial Inclusion in Indonesia: Lessons from the 2016 FII Data
    • Why is Nigeria’s Financial Inclusion Lagging Compared to its African Peers?
    • The Impact of a Decrease in Phone Access on Financial Inclusion in Tanzania – Lessons from the 2016 FII Data
  • Sep
    • How to Accelerate Financial Inclusion in Pakistan -- Lessons from the 2016 FII Survey Data
  • Jul
    • Announcing Release of the 4th Annual Financial Inclusion Insights Data and Reports
    • Announcing the New FII 2016 Datasets: Wave IV
  • Apr
    • Request for Proposals: FII Wave V Africa Surveys
• 2016
  • Dec
    • Financial Inclusion in India: A Demand Side Approach
  • Oct
    • DFS Readiness and Interest: Critical Components for Market Uptake in Benin
  • Sep
    • The Case for Wage Digitization in Bangladesh’s Garment Factories
    • Pakistan's Gender Gap in Financial Inclusion
    • Global Conversations: Fostering Financial Inclusion across Africa
    • Re-Evaluating FI Metrics for India
  • Jul
    • African Financial Inclusion Insights in an Instant
    • Using Big Data to Extend Loans to the Unbanked
  • Jun
    • InterMedia & BRAC Present FII Findings
    • Mobile Wallets: A way to bring transparency to ROSCAs?
    • Watch the 2016 FII Conference
    • Anatomy of an Indicator: Defining Financial Inclusion
    • Cross-Country Comparison: Financial Services in Developing Markets
    • Providing Perspective: Closing The Gender Gap
    • Identifying A Need, Inciting Action
    • Tanzania: A Digital Ecosystem Takes Shape
    • Converting Mobile Money Awareness to Use
    • What's Driving Financial Inclusion in South Asia?
    • India Wave Report Released
    • Kenya Wave Report Released
• 2015
  • Nov
    • How do we accelerate advanced mobile money usage in Tanzania?
  • Oct
    • The Journey to Entrenching New Financial Habits
    • Making Mobile Money Accessible in Pakistan
    • Have branchless banking pilots and well-defined regulations paved the way to greater inclusion in Indonesia?
    • Pakistan: Is Mobile Money a Viable Alternative to Banking?
  • Aug
    • Financial Literacy in Indonesia
  • Jul
    • G2P Needs to Work for Consumers
  • Jun
    • Indonesian women in agriculture. What are their financial stories?
    • 2014 Financial Inclusion Insights in Indonesia: Women farmers in Indonesia a valuable target group for building to inclusion
  • May
    • ROSCAs and Mobile Wallet Adoption in Pakistan
    • Financial Access and the Developing World Highlights from the Conference
  • Apr
    • What’s Behind these Numbers?
    • The Best of Both Worlds
  • Feb
    • Keeping Financial Inclusion Customer Centric
  • Jan
    • Indonesia FII Data Shows Mixed Picture on Digital Financial Access
• 2014
  • Dec
    • Six Things You Need to Know About Mobile Money Usage in Bangladesh
    • An Evidence-Based Path to Financial Inclusion in India
    • India Livelihoods-Based Study Wins FII Data Challenge Grand Prize
  • Nov
    • Connected Women: What’s holding back digital financial services uptake among women in India?
  • Oct
    • A Demand for Secure Savings Exists Among Tanzanians; M-Pawa may Prove to be a Viable Savings Option – Especially for Those in Rural Areas
  • Sep
    • Is a Lack of Consumer Information Keeping Indonesians Financially Excluded?
    • Mobile Money Interoperability and Mobile Money Users: Who Stands to Benefit?
  • Aug
    • Mobile Money Adoption in Nigeria: Is there Low-Hanging Fruit?
  • Jul
    • Barriers to Mobile Money Adoption in Nigeria
    • Moving Beyond the First Step to Financial Inclusion in India (Part 2 of 2)
    • Moving Beyond the First Step to Financial Inclusion (Part 1 of 2)
  • May
    • Pakistan: Mobile Money Uptake, Awareness and Trust
  • Apr
    • M-Shwari in Kenya: How is it Really Being used?
    • The Human Factor in Digital Financial Inclusion
  • Mar
    • Same Village, Different Women – Nuances emerge as poor, rural women discuss mobile phones and DFS
  • Feb
    • Let Me Keep My Cash: Digitizing Wages in the Garment Sector of Bangladesh
  • Jan
    • A Mixed Bag in Kenya: Safaricom’s products have moved far beyond M-PESA – but are they reaching the poor?