Closing the Gaps: Finance Pathways for Serving the Missing Middles

By Collaborative For Frontier Finance

SGBs have a diverse range of business models and a diverse range of unmet financing needs. This report identifies five alternative approaches for providing finance that meets the diverse needs of each SGB segment and investor. It also highlights critical actions that ecosystem stakeholders can take to help support these approaches as well as newly emerging ones that together can help fill the financing gaps within each SGB segment.

Read the executive summary here.

Read the full report here. 

Unlocking the Potential of Frontier Finance
By Rachel Bass 

Impact investors are motivated by the potential that emerging and frontier markets posses to create strong growth and a thriving consumer class. This report assesses the frontier finance investment landscape, presents five in-depth case studies featuring different frontier investment vehicles and transactions, and provides recommendations to build the market and overcome common challenges hindering the flow of additional capital into frontier markets. 

Read the full report here.

Inclusión Financiera en Latinoamérica
realizado por ANDE

Los capítulos ANDE CAM y Brasil crearon un informe conjunto que brinda una visión general del sector de inclusión financiera en América Latina con un enfoque en México y Brasil. El informe incluye una infografía del panorama de inclusión financiera en ambos países, utilizando información y cifras presentadas en nuestras reuniones  del Laboratorio de Aprendizaje.

Además, el informe presenta 3 temas relevantes en torno a la inclusión financiera: productos y servicios financieros centrados en el usuario, infraestructura necesaria para acceder a servicios financieros y educación financiera. Cada tema ofrece una introducción de expertos y  casos de estudio de diversos proyectos en América Latina.

 Lee el reporte completo aquí.

Blended Finance in the Least Developed Countries
by UN Capital Development Fund and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

This report, the second in a collaboration between the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), outlines the latest trends in blended finance approaches in LDCs. It lays down a challenge to the actors within the financing for development architecture, calling for blended finance to be much more responsive to LDCs, to the 'last mile', and to smaller transactions in the missing middle.

Read full report here.

Banking in Africa - Delivering on Financial Inclusion, Supporting Financial Stability
by the European Investment Bank (EIB) 

In its fourth edition, this report focuses on recent developments in Africa’s banking sectors and the policy options for all stakeholders. The study of banking sectors across all African sub-regions includes the results of the EIB survey of banking groups operating in Africa. Three thematic chapters address challenges and opportunities for financing investment in Africa: (a) Crowding out of private sector lending by public debt issuance; (b) The state of bank recovery and resolution laws in Africa; and (c) Policy options on how to finance infrastructure development. The report finds that in many African banking markets, the last two years saw a pause in financial deepening. However, a rising share of banking groups report improving market conditions and plan a structural expansion of their operations in Africa and a continued push for new technologies.