Supervising Inclusive Financial Sectors

This TC Note brings together principles and practices related to financial sector oversight that are relevant to financial inclusion, including proportionate regulation, risk-based supervision, and consumer empowerment. It emphasizes the need to understand and manage linkages and trade-offs between different policy areas, and cover some cross-cutting issues that supervisors are facing, such as new innovations and sources of competition, gender disparities in financial inclusion, and the role of financial inclusion in crisis responses.