CGAP Launches Financial Inclusion Regulation Center

CGAP has launched the Financial Inclusion Regulation Center, which is aimed at microfinance industry members who are seeking to understand different regulatory approaches to greater financial inclusion. The Center provides a broad, timely collection of the key laws and regulations that are most relevant to financial inclusion.

An extensive research effort enabled the Center’s team of lawyers and law students to put together detailed profiles on India, Egypt, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Ghana, the Kyrgyz Republic and 22 other countries. The country profiles provide an overview of the financial inclusion regulatory environment, and summaries and legal texts of selected laws and regulations related to microfinance and banking, branchless banking and consumer protection. Links to government regulatory bodies and recommended reading materials related to financial inclusion are also included.

The topics covered in the laws and regulations include: banking, microfinance, cooperatives and credit unions, prudential regulations, anti-money laundering, use of agents, E-money and consumer protection, among many others.

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