The Mastercard Newsroom spoke to Franco to learn how the Inclusive Growth Score has evolved, how the new report can help leaders better understand the factors that drive equity and what’s next.
Diversity & Inclusion
| The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth
After many years of little progress, we’re finally narrowing the gender gap in financial account ownership. According to the most recent Findex, the gap narrowed from 9 percent to 6 percent across developing economies as more women gained access to financial tools.
Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment
| The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth
At the Clinton Global Initiative 2022 meeting, Center President Shamina Singh outlined Mastercard's four key assets for strengthening the financial resilience of small businesses: network, technology, data analytics and access to capital.
Diversity & Inclusion
| The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth
More than 50 countries have implemented national financial inclusion strategies—it’s time for the U.S. to put financial inclusion on its list of economic priorities.
Diversity & Inclusion
| The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth
Marlita Tenorio Gonzales runs a sportswear business with support from CARE’s Ignite program, a partnership with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.
Innovation & Technology
| The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth
Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach discusses how the private sector can help bring the innovation and expertise needed to support financial health and prosperity at The World Bank 2022 Spring Meetings.
Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment
| The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth
An initiative called Project Kirana, launched by Mastercard and its partners, helped Renu adopt digital payments, creating the formal transaction history that would show her business was booming.
The COVID-19 pandemic dealt a heavy blow to small businesses, but a silver lining emerged amidst the shuttering of storefronts: a clearer understanding of the types of support small businesses need to survive, grow and compete in today’s digital economy.
The Mastercard Newsroom spoke to Franco to learn how the Inclusive Growth Score has evolved, how the new report can help leaders better understand the factors that drive equity and what’s next.
After many years of little progress, we’re finally narrowing the gender gap in financial account ownership. According to the most recent Findex, the gap narrowed from 9 percent to 6 percent across developing economies as more women gained access to financial tools.
About 2,700 policymakers, finance and tech leaders, celebrities, journalists, academics and activists gathered at Davos to debate topics such as deglobalization, decarbonization, distrust and digitization under the theme of “Cooperation in a Fragmented World.”
Through CARE’s Ignite Program – a partnership with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth – Thao was able to obtain affordable financing through the programme’s access to essential digital tools and training, which helped her expand her business to online sales.
My company, like many others, believes that there’s great promise in blockchain technology to build more efficient financial instruments and payments systems. But none of it is possible without trust first.