The global Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and diminished economic activity that resulted from it had a significant impact on financial institutions around the world in 2020. In order to gauge...
In 2016, South Indian Bank (SIB), a mid-sized private bank (currently third largest in southern India), looked to transform its retail and small and medium enterprise businesses (SMEs). SIB’s transformation...
Disruptive technologies, defined as emerging technologies that result in a step change in the cost or access to products or services or that dramatically change how we gather information, make products...
Tienda Pago is an emerging fintech player that provides working capital solutions specifically targeted at merchants in FMCG supply chains. Launched in 2014, and with ongoing operations in Mexico and Peru...
Nigeria’s Lift Above Poverty Organization (LAPO) and IFC have a long-standing relationship that began in 2012. In the context of this partnership, and to serve unbanked individuals and those with limited...
Bangladesh’s largest mobile financial services provider, bKash, added mobile merchant payments to its service offerings in 2014. Three years later, more than 50,000 establishments throughout the country...