financial inclusion

Past Event

Financial inclusion of SMEs for growth and job creation

How can increased access to finance benefit SMEs? What reforms are needed to encourage SME financial inclusion?

Speakers: Jihad Azour, Bruno Balvanera, Zsolt Darvas, Barbara Marchitto, A Ndoye and Guntram B. Wolff Topic: Global economy and trade Location: Bruegel, Rue de la Charité 33, 1210 Brussels Date: June 21, 2019

Past Event

EU Financial Markets: East Meets West

Banking and financial regulation in the East and the West: links, differences and future.

Speakers: Nicolas Véron and Bruegel Topic: Banking and capital markets Location: Collegium Iuridicum II, Lipowa 4, Hall A3, Warsaw, Poland Date: November 16, 2018

External Publication

Reconciling contradictory forces: financial inclusion of refugees and know-your-customer regulations

The authors contributed to the new issue of the 'Journal of Banking Regulation' with a paper on financial inclusion initiatives and banking regulations necessary to provide access to financial services for asylum seekers and refugees.

By: Zsolt Darvas, Uuriintuya Batsaikhan, Inês Goncalves Raposo and Bruegel Topic: Banking and capital markets Date: October 30, 2018

External Publication

Financial inclusion, rather than size, is the key to tackling income inequality

In this paper we assess empirically whether financial inclusion contributes to reducing income inequalitywhen controlling for other key factors, such as economic development and fiscal policy.

By: Alicia García-Herrero, David Martínez Turégano and Bruegel Topic: Banking and capital markets Date: February 15, 2015