Servicios Financieros Digitales y la inclusión financiera en América Latina

La pandemia ha elevado el perfil de los Servicios Financieros Digitales (SFD), los cuales han permitido una distribución sorprendentemente rápida de los fondos de apoyo social, ofreciendo un camino para brindar servicios financieros de forma segura y a escala. Sin embargo, aún quedan asuntos importantes que considerar en cuanto al despliegue e impacto final de los SFD. ¿Quiénes están siendo excluidos? ¿Cómo podemos asegurarnos de que los nuevos actores y modelos empresariales incorporen las necesidades de las comunidades y los clientes de escasos recursos? Esta edición de faiVLive reúne a profesionales e investigadores expertos para abordar estas preguntas y debatir el camino a seguir para los SFD y la inclusión financiera en América Latina. . . .

Con la participación de: Xavier Faz, Líder de Modelos Empresariales y Líder Regional de CGAP en América Latina y el Caribe, Barbara Magnoni, Presidente de EA Consultants y Co-fundadora de MeXCo Soluciones, Timothy Ogden, Director General de la Iniciativa de Acceso Financiero de NYU, Kiki Del Valle, Vicepresidente Sénior de Alianzas Digitales de Mastercard. . . .

Moderador: Gabriela Zapata, Consultora de Inclusión Financiera y Salud Financiera. . . .

Week of June 26th, 2020 (faiVLive)

This week’s faiV was a faiVLive — a webinar featuring a panel of experts discussing the future of digital financial services and inclusion. . . .

Thanks to everyone who joined our faiVLive webinar about the future of Digital Financial Services on June 26th. If you weren’t able to join us live, you can watch a recording of the webinar through this link. . . .

About the webinar:

The pandemic has raised the profile of digital financial services, which have enabled amazingly rapid distribution of social support funds and may provide a path forward for delivering financial services safely and at scale. But there are important questions left to consider about the roll-out and ultimate impact of DFS. This edition of faiVLive brings together expert practitioners and researchers to address these questions, ranging from the impact of DFS on MFIs to digital security.  . . .

Moderator:

Timothy Ogden, Managing Director of the NYU Financial Access Initiative . . .

Featuring:

• Tamara Cook, CEO, FSDKenya . . .

• Salah Goss, SVP, Government & Development, Mastercard . . .

• Moonmoon Shehrin, Digital Cluster Manager, Microfinance, BRAC . . .

• Gregory Chen, Lead Financial Sector Specialist, CGAP . . .

• Graham Wright, Group Managing Director, MSC . . .

Support:

This faiVLive is supported by the Mastercard Impact fund, and in collaboration with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth . . .

Week of April 10th, 2020 (faiVLive)

This week’s edition of the faiV was a faiVLive — a webinar featuring a panel of experts discussing the impact of Covid-19 on MFI clients and other poor households. . . .

About the Webinar

This edition of faiVLive brings together expert practitioners and researchers to discuss how we should be thinking about the impact of COVID-19 and pandemic control policies on poor households in developing countries, what policy interventions are plausible and possible, what role does microfinance have to play, and what needs to happen to enable the global microfinance industry to be useful now and six months from now. . . .

Featuring

• Shameran Abed, Senior Director of BRAC’s microfinance and ultrapoor graduation schemes . . .

• Greta Bull, CEO of CGAP and a director at the World Bank Group . . .

• Deborah Burand, Professor of Clinical Law at NYU and the Co-Director of the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship . . .

• Neville Crawley, CEO at Kiva . . .

• Jonathan Morduch, Professor of Public Policy and Economics at NYU-Wagner, and a founder and Executive Director of the Financial Access Initiative . . .

• Stuart Rutherford, Leader of the Hrishipara Financial Diaries; founder and Chairman of Bangladeshi financial services co-operative SafeSave . . .

Moderator

Timothy Ogden, Managing Director of the NYU Financial Access Initiative . . .

Support

This faiVLive is part of the Household Financial Security Insight Community, supported by the Mastercard Impact fund, and in collaboration with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth. . . .