Videos Index — Financial Access Initiative

faiVLive Webinar: Digital Financial Services, Inclusion, Exclusion and the Future of Pro-Poor FSPs

faiVLive Webinar: Digital Financial Services, Inclusion, Exclusion and the Future of Pro-Poor FSPs

faiVLive Webinar: The Truth about Training

faiVLive Webinar: Microfinance and COVID-19

faiVLive Webinar: Servicios Financieros Digitales y la inclusión financiera en América Latina

faiVLive Webinar: How Low-Income Households Save-And Can We Help?

faiVLive Webinar: Accounting for the Gender Profit Gap

faiVLive webinar: When is FinTech Pro-Poor?

Building an Inclusive Financial System - faiVLive

faivLive Webinar: From M-Pesa to Dogecoin to the Digital Naira

faivLive Webinar: From M-Pesa to Dogecoin to the Digital Naira (Part 2)

Ideas Exchange with Morgan Hardy

Diarios Financieros de Pequeñas Empresas [Colombia]

Small Firm Diaries: Project overview & early summary statistics

The Small Firm Diaries: Understanding and Addressing Financial Constraints of Small Firms

U.S. Financial Diaries Project Launch

NextBillion Interviews FAI's Timothy Ogden on USFD Project

US Financial Diaries: Informal Finance

#Webinar: A Deep Dive into the Complex Financial Lives of American Families

U S Financial Diaries 2

WAGTalk: Jonathan Morduch, "US Financial Diaries"

US Financial Diaries: Small Dollar Credit

US Financial Diaries: Saving for Sooner: How and Why Short-Term Savings Matter

Aspen EPIC discusses income volatility with Jonathan Morduch

Aspen EPIC discusses income volatility with Timothy Ogden

Aspen EPIC discusses income volatility with Rachel Schneider

What's Behind Door #3? Investment in Migration for the World's Poor

The Financial Diaries with Jonathan Morduch

Up close and personal: Findings from the U.S. Financial Diaries

The Financial Literacy Gap: It's a Trap! (faiVLive webinar)

Microfinance Meets Pandemic: Two Years Later, Two Years From Now

Two years ago we hosted a faiVLive on “the gathering storm” of the pandemic and the crisis it presented for low-income households and the MFI industry. It’s clear now the industry has endured the storm better than many (or at least Tim) expected.

In the next edition of the faiVLive, we’ll look back at the last two years, where predictions and concerns were wrong and right, how the industry has weathered the storm, and what challenges remain. We’ll have an interactive discussion including members of the Sentinel Project team who have been tracking the impact of the pandemic on key MFIs since June 2020. We’ll look at how MFIs have risen to the challenge of the pandemic, but also the big questions about what comes next.

We’ll dig into what MFIs, funders, investors and regulators need to do now to ensure the continued vibrancy and relevance of microfinance.

Featuring:
Tim Ogden, Managing Director, FAI
Dwijaraj Bhattacharya, Research Manager, Dvara Research
Barbara Magnoni, President, EAC Global
Kasia Pawlak, CEO, Microfinance Centre
Dan Rozas, Senior Microfinance Expert, e-MFP, FAI Affiliate

Plunging Into the Digital Economy, but Still Tied to Cash: Lessons from the Small Firm Diaries

Pandemic-Driven MFI Digitization: Building Blocks or Shaky Foundations?

Meet the Firms: Female Entrepreneurs in Colombia (English version)

(Español) Meet the Firms: Empresarias de Colombia

Meet the Firms: Sardine Processors in Vanga, Kenya (4 mins)

Meet the Firms: Furniture Making in Enugu, Nigeria

Assessing the Future of Microfinance as a Development Tool: Continuing the Conversation

Co-hosted by FinDev Gateway and the Financial Access Initiative (FAI) at NYU, this webinar will continue exploring the present and future of microfinance in development policy and practice. Join leaders from all parts of the microfinance sector as they discuss pressing questions for funders, practitioners, policymakers and others, including:

How do we keep microfinance "on the rails" (in contrast to Cambodia for instance) given pressures to minimize subsidy?

What is "smart subsidy" in practice? What does smart subsidy look like from the perspective of practitioners, funders and policymakers?

How should limited subsidy be allocated?

What guidance is needed for regulators trying to chart a course between consumer protection, sustainability of subsidized finance reaching the excluded, and financial system stability and growth?

How will continued digitization influence this conversation over the next 5 years?

How do we balance the cost of technology, the cost-savings of technology, and the risks of technology (surveillance, criminality)?

This is a follow-up to the FinDev webinar, Reassessing Microfinance as a Development Tool, which took place on July 10th, 2024.

Introducing Small Firm Diaries USA: A Study Focusing on Small Businesses in Low-Income Communities

In this webinar, we introduce The Small Firm Diaries USA—a new research initiative examining the daily financial realities, challenges, and resilience strategies of small firm owners and their workers. Through a discussion with expert panelists, we explore how the shifting U.S. business landscape—from policy changes to economic pressures—is affecting the smallest employer firms in low-income areas. Panelists :Chi Mac, Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase Institute Amy Hereford, President & CEO, LiftFund Inc. A. Jay Nwachu, President & CEO, Innovation Works Baltimore. Moderator: Timothy Ogden, Managing Director, Financial Access Initiative