Kate Lauer

Kate Lauer is a lawyer and a policy advisory consultant to CGAP with more than 25 years of experience in international finance and microfinance. She works on identifying and developing solutions to the regulatory and policy barriers to financial inclusion, both at the national and global levels. Globally, Kate works with global standard-setting bodies on regulation and supervision of institutions engaged in financial inclusion, including the Basel Consultative Group’s Financial Inclusion Workstream.

Kate began her career at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, & Hamilton and then served as in-house counsel for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Later she served as vice president and assistant general counsel at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Kate has a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a bachelor's degree in economics from Dartmouth College. She is proficient in French and has a basic knowledge of Spanish and Hebrew.

By Kate Lauer

Research

A Guide to Regulation and Supervision of Microfinance

This Guide updates CGAP’s 2003 Guiding Principles on Regulation and Supervision of Microfinance. The revisions reflect continuing developments in the global state of financial access for poor and low-income customers.
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Supervising Nonbank E-Money Issuers

This Brief addresses the supervision of e-money issuing activities of nonbank e-money issuers.
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Bank Agents: Risk Management, Mitigation, and Supervision

This Focus Note discusses the activities (and related risks) in which bank agents may engage, management and mitigation of agent-related risks, approaches to licensing and supervision of bank agent businesses, and possible corrective measures supervisors may take.
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Cross-border Funding of Microfinance

This Focus Note draws on data from CGAP’s annual surveys on cross-border funding (2009, 2010) to provide an overview of the microfinance funding landscape and trends in cross-border funding.
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NGO MFI Transformations: Ownership Issues

This brief reviews seven areas in which those embarking on a transformation should research and seek legal counsel’s advice.