Tools
Financial Inclusion
Feb 11, 2025
About the Impact Pathfinder Welcome to the Impact Pathfinder, an evidence platform designed to shed light on the impact of financial inclusion on development. By leveraging existing research, this platform outlines pathways that show how financial services and products can contribute to key development outcomes, such as building resilience,...
Digital Financial Services
Payments
Feb 23, 2022
What exactly is a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)? A CBDC is virtual money backed and issued by a central bank. As cryptocurrencies and stablecoins have become more popular, the world’s central banks have realized that they need to provide an alternative—or let the future of money pass them by. There are a lot of reasons to explore virtual...
Financial Education
Supply & Value Chain Finance
Policy & Regulation
Nov 21, 2018
Tips and tools are revealed on how SMEs should approach seeking finance along with strategies to improve their success with gaining finance. Utilizing online resources and guides can help SMEs learn more about alternative finance options. “Industry associations such as the Federation of Small Businesses and Enterprise Nation, as well as local...
Financial Education
Non Financial Services
Policy & Regulation
Aug 23, 2018
A special report, Fintech for Social Good, has been released as a follow-up to the Financial Inclusion in the Developing World 2018 Q2 report by Deep Knowledge Analytics. The report is focusesd on the following key elements as it relates to non-commercial activities: The work being done by non-profits, governmental organizations, NGOs and...
Digital Transformation
Aug 22, 2017
MEDICI is FinTech’s premier global knowledge database with 7,400+ FinTech company profiles, 200+ research items, 5,000+ insights from Let’s Talk Payments, and direct engagement. MEDICI is created, designed, and curated by a team of global FinTech experts who understand SME Finance Forums members’ need for global, contextual FinTech knowledge...
Rural & Agriculture Finance
Mar 04, 2015
In this section, you will find many practical tools to help a bank manage agricultural lending operations in a sound and effective manner, starting with the basics of credit analysis. We have also included editable forms that can help banks create and maintain a good system of documentation, e.g., for collateral, and to support proper loan...
Rural & Agriculture Finance
Mar 04, 2015
In this section, we share tools that can help guide interested bankers to better design loan products for the agricultural sector. The downloadable tools below include product sheets and materials on a range of agricultural commodities.
Rural & Agriculture Finance
Mar 04, 2015
The tools in this section can be used by banks to conduct market studies and develop a deeper understanding of value chain arrangements including the relationship among value chain actors from production to final retail sales. These materials also cover financing opportunities at different stages of value chains and loan products relevant for...
Rural & Agriculture Finance
Mar 04, 2015
This category of AgriFin tools offers a wide range of editable forms and worksheets that you can use to analyze agricultural clients. The downloadable tools below include credit risk assessment of agricultural SMEs, credit scoring tools, and technical cards on a wide range of agricultural commodities.
Rural & Agriculture Finance
Dec 05, 2013
The Lending to the Agriculture Sector Toolkit is a suite of resources designed to support financial institutions (FIs) in: (i) making a determination whether or not to get into or ramp up agricultural sector lending; (ii) and if so, to rapidly set-up an agricultural lending unit. It was originally designed by the U.S. Agency for International...