FinancialAccess
Increasingly powerful AI tools are enabling malicious actors to target financial services systems and institutions the world over. Recently the IMF found cyber-enabled fraud has nearly tripled with...
NOTE: Because of the preliminary nature of this data, the number of firms included in each figure varies from 30 to 70 firms. We have included as many months of data, and as many firms as possible,...
In this webinar, we introduce The Small Firm Diaries USA—a new research initiative examining the daily financial realities, challenges, and resilience strategies of small firm owners and their work...
Co-hosted by the Financial Access Initiative (FAI) at NYU and FinDev Gateway, this faiVLive webinar will continue exploring the present and future of microfinance in development policy and practice...
In this webinar we share some data and key findings from the Small Firm Diaries. We talk about related research and initiatives from around the world. And we discuss the implications for what’s nex...
Las mujeres que fueron incluidas en los Small Firm Diaries ya han sobrepasado una gran parte de la brecha de género que existe para convertirse en propietario de una empresa con 2 a 20 empleados. E...
The women included in the Small Firm Diaries study had already overcome many gender gaps to become business owners. We found, contrary to what national and global data would predict, that they were...
Charles and Charity Nwobodo own one of the 161 firms who participated in the Small Firm Diaries in Nigeria. They run a furniture-making business in Enugu, a regional capital in the southeast of Nig...
Rehema is one of the 155 Kenyan small firm owners we got to know during our year-long study to understand barriers facing small business owners.
Rehema is a stability entrepreneur. She wants to g...
Rehema is one of the 155 Kenyan small firm owners we got to know during our year-long study to understand barriers facing small business owners.
Rehema is a stability entrepreneur. She wants to g...
The 2021 Global Findex found that Covid has driven growth in the use of digital payments worldwide, including a bump in digital payments to merchants. The Small Firm Diaries is studying the financi...
As Covid lockdowns took hold, microfinance institutions around the world rushed to digitize. MFIs in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua faced added challenges: these are small markets ...
A quick introduction to the Small Firm Diaries, a global research initiative to understand the financial lives of small firms.
Two years ago we hosted a faiVLive on “the gathering storm” of the pandemic and the crisis it presented for low-income households and the MFI industry. It’s clear now the industry has endured the s...
There’s no question that there are big gaps in financial literacy between the rich and poor, and between those included and excluded at every income level and in every country. As digital finance b...
A global research initiative providing insight into the financial lives of small firms.
Back by popular demand, Tim and Jesse will continue their conversation, and take lots of questions with a particular focus on applications of digital currency to advance financial inclusion, cybers...
The Role of Digital Money in Financial Inclusion.
After the success of M-Pesa in Kenya, mobile money leapt to the forefront of development conversations about financial access and inclusion. In t...