Month: December 2025

Guillermo Herrera Nimmagadda, Ritika Singh, Akshit Saini and Sanika Sayali Talekar

Timely Wages, Trusted Payments: Smart Payments for Urban Livelihoods

This case study documents how MSC’s Smart Payment Solution has can transform urban livelihood programs, such...
Dec 16, 2025

Alvina Zafar, Abdullah Al-Rafi and Zaki Haider

Performance over assets in Bangladesh’s credit reform

Bangladesh's credit reform is shifting to a performance-based system, utilizing multiple credit bureaus, which benefits...
Dec 12, 2025

Samveet Sahoo

Interoperability in Bangladesh: The Stakes, the setbacks, and the way...

When it comes to digital payments, Bangladesh has the regulatory and technical foundations for interoperability....
Dec 11, 2025

Alvina Zafar, Sunil Bhat, Samveet Sahoo and Zaki Haider

How development partners can enable an inclusive multi-bureau future

Bangladesh's multi-bureau system requires three crucial foundations: Regulators and development partners enforce strong oversight, sequence...
Dec 11, 2025

Gregory Ilukwe, Brenda Oyugi and Violet Njeri Kamau

Part 2: Moving climate-displaced persons to financial self-reliance

This second part of our two-part sequel moves from identifying the barriers faced by climate-displaced...
Dec 9, 2025

Gregory Ilukwe, Brenda Oyugi and Violet Njeri Kamau

Part 1: Advancing financial inclusion for climate-displaced persons in Sub-Saharan...

This article opens a two-part sequel on climate-induced displacement and financial inclusion. When disasters strike,...
Dec 9, 2025