Tag: Digitalization

Empowering Inclusion: 7 Social Innovation Cases

Across Europe, seven forward-thinking organizations (Filbo — Romania, Adie — France, Microlab — Italy, 3Bank — Serbia, Coopfin — Italy, FAER — Romania

Read the latest case study and learn how Confeserfidi empower green entrepreneurs in Sicily

In Sicily, where microentrepreneurs often struggle with financial, social, and digital barriers—especially women, migrants, and youth—Confeserfidi is paving

How to help small businesses go green? Hermina, FILBO’s AI Sustainability Assistant, knows the answer

Why Hermina? Client surveys conducted by OMRO revealed a consistent theme: entrepreneurs were open to sustainable practice

EmpowerHer: check how to strengthen the women entrepreneurs digitally

Meet Microlab and their project developed under the Transform Together Fund! Over the past 15 months, Microlab has been working hands-on to design, test and implement a solution

Transform Together Fund

Social innovations for fair green and digital transition. Project descriptionIt is observed that key target groups of social economy are left behind green and digital transit

Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Systems: A Microfinance Perspective

This Working Paper is the first paper resulting from a research project on "Strengthening Financial Inclusion through Digitalization: (SFIDE). The project aims to investigate the p

Igniting SDG Progress Through Digital Financial Inclusion (2023 edition)

Digital financial services offer real hope to help the world get back on track from the severe negative impacts from COVID-19.Building on the success of the 2018 edition, this new

The Promise of Fintech for Micro and Small Enterprises

Nearly 500 million micro and small enterprises (MSEs) are estimated to be operating around the world. Access to credit and other financial services is critical to the growth and su

Webinar: Products and services for SMEs

Date: September 16th, 2022The webinar present the solutions for micro and small businesses, offered by Mastercard in partnership with financial institutions. MFIs, in search for re

Join the SIFTA Webinar: Preparing micro-businesses for the digital future.  

IntroductionDoing business by microfinance clients is becoming more challenging every day as expenses continue to rise and it has never been more important to save resources and op

Join MFC Webinar: Decoding Pact for Skills for MFIs 

20 October 2022

INTRODUCTION Learn about opportunities for upskilling and reskilling of staff in MFIs. Digital literacy and other key skills of today’s workforce are in focus o

Explore Funding Opportunities – Erasmus Plus for MFIs Webinar Series

21 and 27 September 2022

INTRODUCTION Surprisingly to many, Erasmus+ project might be a great opportunity for Microfinance Institutions, to finance practical training or exchange of exper

Digital Era: A fresh perspective on change 

7 September 2022

INTRODUCTIONWhat does it need to become a digital leader in the microfinance space? Apart from introducing the technical infrastructure and effective processes and operations, mind

Policy Paper – How to Support Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and their Clients to Digitalize in the Post-COVID-19 Environment

This policy paper is intended as a guide that explaining what financial and non-financial support is available for the microfinance sector in Europe to adapt their business models

Join the EaSI Technical Assistance Webinar: Digital identity and opportunities for MFIs.  

23 June 2022

IntroductionPandemic boosted development of digital services in finance ecosystem. MCPs try to keep up with the growing offer of commercial banks but they don’t have as much reso

Welcome a new Member of MFC – ASPEKT from Macedonia

We are delighted to welcome ASPEKT as a new member of the Microfinance Network. Their expertise will prove an essential contribution to the membership’s efforts towards digitaliz

Microfinance Business Models

The paper identifies the key building blocks of a microfinance business model and reviews their relevance in view of the recent pandemic crisis. The changes to the business models

Meet the leaders in digitalisation

Read the brief case studies, summarizing leading MFIs efforts in digitalisation. Each case focuses on differet aspect: digital marketing, digital loan process, digtal payments, and

Benchmarking Microfinance in Romania (2019-2020)

This is the fifth comparative evaluation study of the microfinance sector in Romania and it aims to achieve several objectives:To determine the trends of the evolution of the micro

Small Goes Digital

How digitalization can bring about productive growth for micro and small enterprises The report deals with an urgent knowledge gap concerning micro and small enterprises (MSEs),