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...
Credit Risk & Scoring
Sep 19, 2013
Mobile Funder is a tablet-based solution that lets “on-the-move” small business finance reps to quickly and securely pre-quality prospects, authorize credit checks and propose multiple financing options.
Non Financial Services
Gender Finance
Apr 11, 2013
Nancy Lee, General Manager of the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, announced plans to produce a comprehensive set of metrics for evaluating countries’ environments for women’s business start-ups and growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. The WEVentureScope, which will be produced...
Credit Risk & Scoring
Jan 29, 2013
The SME Toolkit website offiers software, business forms, training and more to help businesses in emerging markets grow and succeed. The Toolkit focuses on seven core business areas: accounting and finance, business planning, human resources, legal and insurance, marketing and sales, operations and technology. The SME Toolkit is a program of the...
Guarantees
Credit Risk & Scoring
Jan 27, 2013
This research paper provides U.S. government (USG) program designers with a basis of technical understanding of approaches to enable access to financing for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets. This paper includes a Primer, a Diagnostic/Checklist, and a Model Scope of Work.