SERIES 5: Women Bankers for Women Entrepreneurs:
A Post 2020 strategy for success - November 19.
A moderated discussion with a focus on Women Bankers for Women Entrepreneurs: A post 2020 strategy for success with attention to different ways to boost financial inclusion in Africa, conducting more gender-segmented research, adapting collateral registries and adoption of mobile money services in Africa.
- The different ways to boost financial inclusion in Africa: Increasing women’s formal financial inclusion will yield knock-on effects for African economies.
- African banks can tailor banking services and products to women in order to address their specific needs
- How banks need to conduct more gender-segmented market research in order to design products that meet women’s needs.
- The role of governments in offering financial literacy training and upscaling digital literacy levels among women
- The adoption of collateral registries, which accept a broader class of assets as security and intangibles: This can help women access credit as they are more likely to own moveable assets.
- Adoption of mobile money services in Africa, and how they meet women’s unique financial needs.