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Get updated on the latest client protection developments in the industry! A lot has happened since the closure of the Smart Campaign in late 2020--in particular, the launch of the CERISE + SPTF Client Protection Pathway. The CP Pathway, the new Client Protection Certification program, and the resources available to support financial service providers will be explained.

The Green Inclusive and Climate-Smart Finance Action Group (GICSF AG) is organizing online trainings on the Green Index 3.0 for FSPs interested to know more about the assessment and management of green inclusive finance performance. The training will include data gathering on FSPs environmental performance.

e-MFP is pleased to announce the launch of the first EMW 2021 Training Days, conducted within the framework of European Microfinance Week 2021. Taking place on the 15th and 16th of November, this is an online training programme, hosted and convened by e-MFP, aiming to bring our members and other financial inclusion actors together to build capacity, reduce knowledge and skills gaps, and learn from some of the world's best training providers in the digital and financial inclusion sector.

C’est avec plaisir que nous vous annonçons la publication de la version française du Financial Inclusion Compass 2021 - le quatrième d'une série visant à recueillir les opinions du secteur sur les tendances émergentes à court, moyen et long terme dans le secteur de l'inclusion financière.

We are pleased to announce that the 7th European Research Conference on Microfinance will take place on 20-22 June 2022 at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, UK. The conference is organised by the Glasgow Caledonian University in collaboration with the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP).

Digitalisation is revolutionising the way financial service providers conduct their business. This new publication explores the answers to a question that many executives are asking: How best to digitalise a financial institution? The case study draws upon management consulting literature to assess digitalisation strategies in a pragmatic way. It also assesses three leading African financial organisations against this framework: Al Barid Bank, Morocco; Equity Bank, Kenya; and Consolidated Bank, Ghana.

Connect with the key players of the sector and discover the insights and innovations that are shaping the future of inclusive finance.

Crecer IFD from Bolivia; Dreamlopments Ltd. from Thailand; and Fonkoze from Haiti announced as finalists

We’re excited for you to join us from wherever you are in the world and connect for three days of knowledge exchange, peer to peer learning and the chance to engage with thought leaders from the financial inclusion sector.

The heads of the Green Inclusive and Climate Smart Finance Action Group are pleased to invite you to our webinar series this Thursday, September 9th, at 4 pm CET. We will be presenting the insights from the Impact-Driven and Action-Based Research project, IMPACT-R, identifying and assessing customers' vulnerabilities in regard to covered basic needs at household level. In particular, we will be sharing about the methods used, the role of digital tools, the experiences in field work, and most importantly, the “why” of this project.

The Heads of the e-MFP's Green Inclusive and Climate-Smart Finance Action Group, Natalia Realpe Carrillo and Davide Forcella, are pleased to invite you to the webinar series this Thursday, September 23, at 16:00 CEST with Christoph Jungfleisch from YAPU Solutions and Ricardo Romero from Fundación Génesis Empresarial.

This webinar introduces ATLAS, a data platform which provides an all-in-one approach to data management in financial inclusion, from data reporting to analytics and benchmarking. Launched in 2020, ATLAS centralizes data from financial service providers on pricing, client protection, social and financial performance, providing a solution that helps make the financial inclusion industry accountable.

Join e-MFP member Yapu and other members of the e-MFP Green Inclusive & Climate Smart Finance Action Group in the launch of the new initiative 'Scale for Resilience' happening on 14th September (in Spanish)

e-MFP's Human Resources (HR) Action Group has published the report 'Human Resource Development practices in the microfinance sector'. This publication, prepared by Cheryl Frankiewicz, is the result of the HR Action Group's research journey to map out the current landscape of Human Resource Development (HRD) practices among microfinance institutions (MFIs), and to shed some light on the relationship between HR practices and MFI performance.

The 23rd MFC Annual Conference – MFC’s first-ever fully virtual networking event – is a perfect opportunity for social finance professionals to network, share ideas, learn from an impressive line-up of guests and lay the groundwork for successful future partnerships.

It is with great sadness that the Board and the Secretariat of the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP) have to inform you that our Board member Sachin Vankalas passed away on 15 July 2021. Sachin had been ill for several weeks due to complications associated with Covid. He was only 38 and leaves a young family. We are all deeply shocked and we are, of course, thinking first and foremost of his family.

The Green Index is the main tool for FSPs’ environmental performance assessment. It was developed in 2014 by the e-MFP Green Inclusive and Climate Smart Finance Action Group (GICSF-AG) and updated to the 2.0 version in 2016. This year the GICSF AG is updating the Green Index to Green Index 3.0 and SPTF, CERISE and e-MFP’s GICSF AG have joined forces to develop the Environmental Management Dimension (i.e. Dim 7) of the Universal Standards for Social Performance Management (USSPM).

Financial Innovations are disrupting the financial services industry bringing tangible benefits to the end users. However, new technologies pose new risks that need to be addressed in order to provide a secure framework so that financial entities and users can interact. FinTech regulation aims to create this framework, more than being a tight set of rules, modern regulation is based on principles such as financial inclusion or the promotion of fair competence.

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On 7 July a webinar hosted by the European Microfinance Platform in partnership with FinDev Gateway explored findings from the survey. The Financial Inclusion Compass 2021 will be published in English, Spanish, and French, and we are pleased to kick off the launch with this English-language webinar.