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Digital Financial Services Digital Inclusion Digital Transformation Digitization Benefits
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Digital Financial Services Digital Inclusion Digital Transformation Digitization Benefits

What the 2025 Findex Means for Savings Groups and Digitization

By Maria Liu,
August 29, 2025

What the 2025 Findex Means for Savings Groups and Digitization

The release of the Global Findex 2025 offers a new snapshot of how people are connecting to financial services worldwide, and our team at DSG Hub is going to unpack what it means for digital savings groups and financial inclusion. For those of us working at the intersection of savings, credit, and digital innovation, several […]
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Consumer Protection Digital Financial Services Digital Inclusion Digitization Benefits
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Consumer Protection Digital Financial Services Digital Inclusion Digitization Benefits

Savings-led Digital Finance: The Dawn of a New Era?

By Philip Acton & Finn Tiedemann
August 31, 2022

Savings-led Digital Finance: The Dawn of a New Era?

This blog explores “savings-led” digital finance apps, such as DreamSave, that use clients' savings capacity as a proxy for the ability to repay a loan, opening up a potential new era for digital finance.
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Change Management Digital Financial Services Digital Transformation Digitization Planning
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Digital Incrementalism and Savings Groups: Lessons from the History of Digital Microfinance

By David Panetta,
July 29, 2022

Digital Incrementalism and Savings Groups: Lessons from the History of Digital Microfinance

In the social sector, much ink is spilled on disruptive change. The social, economic, and environmental challenges of our world are indeed substantial and often daunting, so the search for – and allure of – disruptive solutions is understandable. But the reality is that most sustainable progress is incremental. Incremental Innovation As opposed to disruptive […]