Publications
Report | Aug 17, 2016
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role for employment, job creation, investment, innovation and economic growth around the world. By endorsing the G20 Action Plan on SME Financing in 2015, the G20 agreed, and encouraged non G20 countries to fully develop credit infrastructure for SMEs, improve SME financial capability through targeted learning and support interventions and enable competition through an enabling regulatory environment.
Report | Aug 17, 2016
The updated G20 Financial Inclusion Indicators measure access to digital infrastructure and the quality of regulations, drawing on data provided by the World Bank, IMF, OECD, and Gallup, Inc. These indicators, if considered in conjunction with additional country-specific information, will inform policymakers and enable comprehensive monitoring of financial inclusion developments, both at a national and at a global level.
Report | Aug 17, 2016
The 2016 G20 High-Level Principles for Digital Financial Inclusion build on the success of 2010's G20 Principles for Innovative Financial Inclusion by providing a basis for country action plans reflecting country context and national circumstances to leverage the huge potential offered by digital technologies.
Report | May 16, 2016
This is the 2016 Work Plan for the GPFI SME Finance Subgroup. Consistent with the theme of China’s G20 Presidency in 2016, “Towards the Innovative, Invigorated, Interconnected and Inclusive World Economy”, the GPFI SME Finance Subgroup will work on the implementation of the G20 Financial Inclusion Action Plan.
Report | May 16, 2016
This is the 2016 Work Plan of the GPFI Regulation and Standard-Setting Bodies (SSBs) Subgroup.
The 2016 Work Plan of the GPFI Regulation and SSBs Subgroup is organized around the Objectives (Activities) and Sub-objectives included in the Subgroup’s May 2014 Terms of Reference (see Appendix 1). It takes into consideration also the expected results under the GPFI Financial Inclusion Action Plan (FIAP) (see Appendix 2) and the related indicators in the results framework included in the Subgroup’s Terms of Reference (see Appendix 3). In addition, reference is made throughout to the numbered Recommendations from Part VI of second edition of the GPFI White Paper Global Standard-Setting Bodes and Financial Inclusion – The Evolving Landscape, released as a Consultation Document in November 2015 and expected to be released in its final version in the first days of March 2016.
Report | May 16, 2016
This is the 2016 Work Plan for the GPFI Markets and Payment Systems Subgroup.
The overall goal of the Subgroup is to advance utilisation of payment systems including remittances in the pursuit of increased and sustainable financial inclusion. The Subgroup will focus on emerging technologies and business models and will incorporate strong links to market based approaches through engagement with financial service providers. The Subgroup responds to the call in the G20’s St. Petersburg Development Outlook for the GPFI to explore in 2014 “targeted actions to harness emerging mechanisms such as electronic payments and mobile technology that can significantly improve access”.
Report | May 16, 2016
This is the 2016 Work Plan for the GPFI Financial Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy Subgroup.
The objective of the FCPFL Subgroup for the next five years is to build the capacity of developing and emerging economies to implement audience-appropriate, evidence-based financial consumer protection and financial literacy programs. Additionally, the Subgroup will identify best practices, emanating from the public, private, and NGO sectors, in consumer protection and financial education policies that support use of digital financial products and services. The Subgroup will continue its efforts, consistent with the G20’s 2013 St. Petersburg Development Outlook, to increase incentives, financial education, financial literacy, and consumer protection for the poor, with emphasis on vulnerable groups such as women, youth, and migrants.
Report | May 16, 2016
The Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion 2016 Work Plan presents the key outcomes for the GPFI during 2016. Consistent with the theme of China’s G20 Presidency in 2016, “Towards the Innovative, Invigorated, Interconnected and Inclusive World Economy,” the GPFI will continue to work on former Presidencies’ agenda items and support the implementation of the FIAP with particular focuses on:
Digital Financial Inclusion: Innovation, Regulation and Supervision;
Data and Indicators;
Reaching the Last Mile: Rural Areas, the Poor, the Youth and the Elderly;
Financial Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy;
SME Finance: Diversified Financing Channels.
It includes a timeline of GPFI events as well. The GPFI organizes its work through four Subgroups. You can find their individual Work Plans below:
White paper | Feb 29, 2016
The March 2016 GPFI White Paper, Global Standard-Setting Bodies and Financial Inclusion: The Evolving Landscape, builds on the considerable progress in recent years in integrating financial inclusion into the work of global standard-setting bodies (SSBs) and looks forward, examining new challenges in the changing landscape of the digitization of financial services.
In just the few years since the October 2011 GPFI White Paper, Standard-Setting and Financial Inclusion for the Poor—Toward Proportionate Standards and Guidance, recognition has grown as to the impact of the global financial sector standard-setting bodies (SSBs) on who gets access to what range and quality of formal financial services and at what cost. During this period, the SSBs have acted on most of the observations and recommendations in the first GPFI White Paper. There is still far to go, but the advances are noteworthy. Appreciation has also grown as to the important role that digitization of financial services plays in reaching financially excluded and underserved customers, and the implications of this development for the SSBs.
Report | Jan 29, 2016
This document outlines Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) priorities during China’s G20 Presidency for 2016.
Consistent with the theme of China’s G20 Presidency in 2016, “Towards the Innovative, Invigorated, Interconnected and Inclusive World Economy”, the GPFI will continue to work on former Presidencies’ agenda items and support the implementation of the G20 Financial Inclusion Action Plan with particular focuses on:
Digital Financial Inclusion: Innovation, Supervision and Regulation;
Data and Indicators;
Reaching the Last Mile: Rural Areas, the Poor, the Youth and the Elderly;
Financial Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy;
SME Finance: Diversified Financing Channels.
