Camilo Tellez-Merchan

Addressing Big Development Challenges with Financial Innovation

Financial innovation has great potential to help solve big development challenges in access to energy, water, education, health and agriculture.

Mobile Payments in Brazil: Ready, Set, Go?

The Central Bank of Brazil has issued the much awaited medida provisoria (MP) for mobile payments.This bill establishes the regulatory framework to allow non-bank eMoney issuance, paving the way for a number of commercial partnerships to go to the market.

The Emerging Global Data Architecture of Branchless Banking

This first post in this series lays out a conceptual map of the data landscape and takes a closer look at the supply-side data gathering efforts worldwide. It is important to note that while various initiatives have begun to look at the wider financial inclusion data architecture from the supply and demand-side, branchless banking and mobile money data is still missing from many datasets or is poorly represented.

What Is the Role of Start-Ups in Financial Inclusion?

This post explores the role of start-ups in financial inclusion by highlighting some of the themes from the recent Finovate event.

We Have Moved...

Yesterday, we announced the launch of the new CGAP.org site and with it the migration to our new blog. This new consolidated platform will make it easier for our readers to find out what’s happening in the world of financial inclusion taking advantage of an improved integration with our social media channels, including LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. Curious about responsible finance or how to drive customer adoption of branchless banking? You can now find everything you need to know about financial inclusion in one place.