The Global Financial Inclusion Database 2021 (Global Findex) is the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage their household financial risks. Findex data reveals trends in the use of bank accounts, mobile money accounts, credit and debit cards, and the internet to conduct financial transactions. It also captures differences in access and usage of financial products between men and women.
Dorothe Singer is a Senior Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region at the World Bank. Her research interests include access to finance and the role of institutions in international finance. She is part of the team producing the Global Findex database, which measures how adults around the world save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk, and a lead author…
Join us at the launch of the Future of Government report to learn more about how governments and other stakeholders can start discussing how to create a government of the future.
Nadine Chehade is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist and CGAP Representative in the Arab world. She works to deepen CGAP’s engagement in the region, collaborating with regulators, policy-makers, donors, investors, regional associations, and businesses, with the overarching goal of advancing financial inclusion. She has led CGAP’s global work on financial services in humanitarian crises and now…
Kwame Oppong is the Head of FinTech and Innovation at Bank of Ghana. His background spans Technology, Digital Financial Services (DFS) operations, policy development, and regulation. He has consulted for several governments, public sector institutions, international development organizations and private corporations globally. Prior to joining the Bank, Kwame worked with CGAP, Millicom, Hewlett…
Coura Sene is an executive leader with over 20 years of experience in the mobile money, telecom and insurance industries, spanning multiple geographies. She currently serves as Wave Mobile Money’s General Manager (GM) for the WAEMU region. Coura’s stewardship has led to Wave’s explosive growth in Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire and increasingly, rest of Francophone West Africa. As GM for the region, she…
On June 21st, 2022, David Malpass and USAID Administrator Samantha Power will hold a conversation about the impact of the current overlapping global crises on the poorest and most vulnerable.
Ana Maria is currently the Head of the Payment System Department at the Central Bank of Colombia. She previously worked at the Unit of Financial Regulation of the Ministry of Finance, the Securities Self-Regulatory Organization and the Colombian Banking Association. She is a leading economist in Latin America, responsible for financial inclusion of 1 million vulnerable households in 2020 through…
Sucharita is the co-founder and CEO of Kaleidofin, a fintech platform that provides intuitive and tailored financial solutions to underbanked customers. Prior to this, she co-founded the IFMR group and most recently was the group CEO of IFMR Holdings. She conceptualized and founded IFMR Capital, building capital markets access for financial inclusion and IFMR Investments, an alternatives fund…
Samuel Garoni is a Governance Specialist who has been working for over two years at the Global Procurement Unit at the World Bank. His work focuses primarily on procurement reforms and procurement’s impact on the broader socio-economic environment. Before joining the World Bank Group in 2019, Samuel worked for Swisscontact in Cambodia where he implemented projects in private sector development.…