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In Conversation with Wema Bank’s Adekunle Alarapon: In a Digitally Dominant Era, Physical Touchpoints Remain Essential for Financial Inclusion

Adekunle Alarapon (ACIB, CDEF) is Head of Retail Segments for Wema Bank Plc, where he holds responsibilities for Agent Banking & Financial Inclusion, Gaming & Entertainment Business, Workplace Banking and Female Gender (Sara) Propositions. Mr. Alarapon has more than 20 years of banking experience in operations, control, commercial, retail and

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June 27, 2023

Explore Insights

Women’s World Banking Blog Driving Women’s Financial Inclusion at All Levels Explore the latest global and regional insights from Women’s World Banking’s work in policy, leadership, women’s entrepreneurship, gender lens investing, and more. Latest Posts Categories Client Stories Event Gender Lens Investing General Leadership & Diversity Pioneers of Financial Inclusion

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February 24, 2023

The Savings Mobilization Replication Toolkit

Few financial products and services are developed with the needs of the low-income woman customer in mind or account for the challenges that a low-income woman might face. Many financial products are not set up to sustain the continued interaction required to create the trust that the low-income woman needs

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January 30, 2023

Agenda

24-25 May | Mumbai, India 2023 Making Finance Work for Women Summit Join financial inclusion leaders from around the globe to accelerate her economy. Register Now Why Attend Agenda Speakers Exploring Mumbai Sponsorship Register What to Expect Powering Growth in Uncertain Times This year’s Summit will bring together, in-person again,

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January 6, 2023

South Asia

Where We Work South Asia Learn how our efforts have benefitted women and banking institutions in this region. Primary Problem We’ve Set Out to Address Usage and Engagement for Underbanked In 2018, we saw that India had opened millions of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) accounts, but the majority

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December 8, 2022

Relevant Products

What We Do Relevant Products Women’s World Banking designs and deploys in-market relevant financial products and services to engage low-income women. There are no gender neutral products The financial services industry is still not gender intentional in the way it designs products and services for customers. A focus on women

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December 8, 2022
Research & Perspectives

Check Your Bias: Gender Bias Scorecard for Lenders

Globally, there is a $1.7 trillion credit gap between for women MSMEs. At all points in the lending process–from customer acquisition to retention–there are opportunities to serve women customers better. Women’s World Banking has worked with dozens of financial institutions on their lending processes, successfully increasing representation of women applicants,

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November 30, 2022
Research & Perspectives

Climate change has a disproportionate impact on low-income women. Here’s how financial institutions can change that.

By Nithya Sharma (Women’s World Banking); Carolanne Boughton, and Sasha Polikarpova (Baringa) The impact of climate change is reverberating around the world, with increasing frequency and severity of weather events, rising temperatures, and loss of biodiversity. While multilateral governance bodies including the United Nations emphasize that the world’s wealthiest countries,

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October 18, 2022
Research & Perspectives

Global Findex 2021: Women’s World Banking Response

Six Insights from the 2021 World Bank Global Findex Data  By Sonja Kelly, Director of Research & Advocacy For those of us in the financial inclusion world, the release of the Global Findex is a pivotal moment. The data are typically compiled every three years – this time, due to Covid,

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June 29, 2022
Products & Solutions

Deepening Women’s Financial Inclusion through G2P Programs: Building Savings Behavior among PKH Beneficiaries in Indonesia

By Angela Ang, Andi Setianto, Whitney Mapes, and Elwyn Panggabean As COVID-19 has exposed economic fault lines around the world, governments have responded by extending economic lifelines to the most vulnerable populations. According to the World Bank, at least 200 countries and territories have offered some kind of COVID-19-related financial

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April 1, 2021

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