The Insurance Regulatory Authority of Uganda has granted FINCA Uganda a Bancassurance license. The license marks a milestone in FINCA Uganda’s work to help small entrepreneurs build resilience. FINCA Uganda will offer affordable insurance products specifically designed to meet the needs of low-income customers, creating financial safety nets that have long been out of reach for many.

Clean Cooking Loans In Malawi
FINCA Malawi’s Clean Cooking Initiative helps low-income customers replace traditional cooking methods that can be unhealthy, unsafe and bad for the environment.

Leveraging Generative AI To Tackle Global Poverty
In collaboration with AWS, FINCA is harnessing AI to conduct evidence-based customer research and creating new ways for nonprofits to address the world’s most pressing challenges.

FINCA Uganda Pioneers New Approach to Build Resilience for Customers
The Insurance Regulatory Authority of Uganda has granted FINCA Uganda a Bancassurance license. The license marks a milestone in FINCA Uganda’s work to help small entrepreneurs build resilience. FINCA Uganda will offer affordable insurance products specifically designed to meet the needs of low-income customers, creating financial safety nets that have long been out of reach for many.

The Unfinished Business of Gender Equality
FINCA Global CEO Andrée Simon highlights the urgent need for women’s financial inclusion to drive global economic growth as we head into the 2024 World Bank Annual Meetings.

Champion for Change: A Fresh Approach to Empowering Women
FINCA Uganda’s new champion for change will share her financial success story as she travels the country to inspire Uganda’s women.

Banking in the Comfort Zone
A recent FINCA study suggests that banking agents promote financial inclusion and financial health by offering services in a familiar setting.

How Education Accelerates the Impact of Financial Inclusion
Education is a proven and powerful driver of upward social mobility. FINCA invests in financial education that empowers our customers to use their funds wisely, and supports our customers in providing an education for their own children.

FINCA Impact Finance Appoints Jeff Flowers as New CEO
FINCA Impact Finance announced the appointment of Jeff Flowers as its next Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2024. Jeff is returning to FINCA after five years at other organizations.
“Almost 40 years ago, FINCA’s founders dedicated themselves to fighting poverty through the power of microfinance, promising greater opportunity around the world. Together, we will continue to deliver on that pledge. It is a privilege to rejoin FINCA and to carry forward the work of this great institution.” — Jeff Flowers

Q&A with New FIF CEO Jeff Flowers
In a Q-and-A session with FNCA Global CEO Andrée Simon, incoming FIF CEO Jeff Flowers shares his philosophy toward financial inclusion and his plans for his first weeks and months on the job.

Q & A With a Village Banking Officer
Drew Boshell, Executive Director of FINCA Canada, talks with FINCA Guatemala Village Banking Officer Brenda Elizabeth Chiyal about empowering women in the Southwestern Highlands of Guatemala.