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Regulating Banking Agents
This Focus Note reviews global regulation of the use of agents by banks (and where noted, nonbank service providers) and focuses on four questions related to the safe and scalable use of agents.Publication
Agent Management Toolkit
This guide presents practical advice to providers on how to build a viable network of agents, which is a critical component of a branchless banking service.Publication
Microfinance Banana Skins 2011
Now in its third year, the report reflects changing perceptions of risk in a dynamic and fast-moving industry. Microfinance has come of age, and with that, new issues have arisen.Publication
Consumer Protection Laws and Regulations in Deposit and Loan Services
This paper presents the results of a survey on consumer protection regulations in 142 countries. It also compiles comprehensive information on laws and regulations relevant for consumer protection and discusses a number of challenges related to empirical analyses of financial consumer protection to enable crosscountry comparison.Publication
Access to Financial Services and the Financial Inclusion Agenda around the World
CGAP and the World Bank launched the Financial Access project, including a cross-country database on financial inclusion topics and an annual report to inform the policy debate.Publication
Small and Medium Enterprises
This paper introduces a new dataset to fill a gap in the small and medium enterprise data landscape. In addition, it provides the first set of results of analyses with this new dataset, predicting the global small and medium enterprise lending volume to be $10 trillion.Publication
Is There a Business Case for Small Savers? (Brief)
This Brief presents empirical evidence showing that although the savings accounts of small savers are quite costly to provide, there are several important channels through which small savers may be a profitable, or even highly profitable, client segment.Publication
Implementing the Client Protection Principles
This second edition reflects the developments in implementation and practices of the Client Protection Principles into investors’ policies and processes over the past year.Publication
Technology Program Country Note: Brazil
Brazil is seen as a global leader in branchless banking and as an example of how banks have created wide-reaching branchless channels that use cards and point-of-sale (POS) devices at various retail locations.However, challenges remain.Publication