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How Can Regulators Enable Last-Mile Agent Networks?
Extensive and inclusive cash-in/cash-out (CICO) agent networks are key to ensuring DFS access in rural areas. Regulators play an essential role here by enabling DFS providers to innovate agent network models that are sustainable in rural areas.Cash vs. Digital? Unleashing the Power of DFS through Agent Networks
The rise of DFS has sparked debate on cash's future in developing economies. But, despite increasing adoption of DFS, cash prevails in most global economies, emphasizing agent networks' crucial role as enablers rather than disruptors.Women Agents for Financial Inclusion: Exploring the Benefits, Constraints, and Potential Solutions
This working paper explores the benefits of having more women agents, the challenges they face, and potential solutions to promote their participation. It highlights that engaging women agents does not compromise performance and offers collaborative solutions for stakeholders to remove barriers and unlock the full potential of women in the DFS ecosystem.The Setup: Partnerships and Conditions for Offering Financial Services to Gig Workers
Platforms can offer financial services to underserved gig workers through digital channels, but it's essential to have the right environment for payments, regulations, and analysis. In this brief, early lessons share how institutional partnerships can lead to successful market entry.Putting Gig Data to Work: Innovations in Expanding Credit Access
Learn how industry pioneers such as Moove and Karmalife have developed algorithms and products to use work and earnings data to extend credit to gig workers in this new brief.Financial Services for Gig Workers: Lessons on Getting Design and Delivery Right
This brief highlights four examples of successful design and delivery methods employed by industry leaders in providing financial services to gig workers.How Did Bancolombia Create a Successful Rural Agent Network at Scale?
Bancolombia is a great example of a provider that's been successful in developing rural agent business models at scale, therefore playing a critical role in furthering financial inclusion. Here, we look at the factors that explain their success.Can Disruptive Innovation Favor Financial Inclusion in Côte d’Ivoire?
Côte d'Ivoire's mobile money market is an excellent opportunity to reflect on whether market disruptions contribute to financial inclusion, given a recent revamp of mobile money business models in the country.Financial Inclusion-Friendly G2P: Recommendations for Stakeholders
G2P transfer experiments during the COVID-19 pandemic collectively demonstrate the importance of “financial inclusion (FI)-friendly” G2P - intentional architecting and implementation that support active DFS usage beyond an initial payment.Kickstarting CICO Rural Agent Network Innovation: 5 Tips for Funders
Based on pilots in five countries (Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, India, Indonesia, Morocco and Pakistan), we share early insights on how funders can engage with stakeholders in Cash-in Cash-out (CICO) rural agent networks to kickstart innovation.Findex and G2P: Are Transfers Translating to Inclusion at Scale?
Governments are enrolling the unbanked into the formal financial system at scale in EMDEs, primarily to facilitate government-to-person (G2P) payments, but do all these accounts with funds flowing into them amount to financial inclusion? Not yet.Agent Networks at the Last Mile: Implications for Policy Makers
Rural agent networks are critical to “last mile” financial inclusion.
Agent Networks at the Last Mile: Implications for Financial Service Providers
Rural agent networks are critical to “last mile” financial inclusion.
Agent Networks at the Last Mile: Implications for Financial Regulators
Rural agent networks are critical to “last mile” financial inclusion.