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Building Deep, Inclusive, Resilient
and Efficient Financial Systems
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The Finance for Development (F4D) Umbrella Program is the World Bank’s donor financing, partnership, and knowledge platform aimed to improve the capacity of low- and middle-income countries to develop deep, inclusive, efficient, and resilient financial systems.

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F4D Stories of Impact

Browse through a collection of stories, videos, photos and testimonials from our clients, development partners, beneficiaries and task teams that put faces behind the numbers, and showcase how F4D’s work changes lives.

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NEWS | Finance for Development (F4D) Umbrella Program

NEWS

Finance for Development (F4D) Umbrella Program
Annual Report 2024

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NEWS | Finance for Development (F4D) Umbrella Program

News | Agence Française de Développement Joins F4D

News | Agence Française de Développement Joins F4D

Agence Française de Développement Joins Finance for Development Trust Fund to Support Financial Inclusion

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Impact | Strengthening Financial Consumer Protection in Uzbekistan

Impact | Strengthening Financial Consumer Protection in Uzbekistan

As part of F4D’s comprehensive multi-year program in Uzbekistan, funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the World Bank has been working closely with the Central Bank of Uzbekistan (CBU) to strengthen the country’s financial consumer protection regime.

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Blog | Capital Markets: The New Frontier for SME Financing

Blog | Capital Markets: The New Frontier for SME Financing

Access to alternative financing sources is particularly critical in turbulent times, when bank credit might tighten, leaving SMEs exposed to shocks.

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Publication | Fast Payments and Central Bank Digital Currencies: Rivals or Partners?

Publication | Fast Payments and Central Bank Digital Currencies: Rivals or Partners?

Retail central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and fast payment systems (FPS) share a number of similarities. Both allow for instant transactions for end users, can rely on underlying infrastructures operated by the central bank and can allow for an important role for private payment service providers (PSPs) to offer their services to end users.

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Impact | Strengthening Albania’s Financial Resilience and Inclusion: All Hands On Deck to Maximize Impact

Impact | Strengthening Albania’s Financial Resilience and Inclusion: All Hands On Deck to Maximize Impact

As a small, open economy, Albania is highly exposed to external shocks, such as a recession in the European Union (EU) or further tightening of financing conditions in international capital markets.

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PUBLICATIONS | Advancing Women’s Financial Inclusion in Mexico (English)

PUBLICATIONS | Advancing Women’s Financial Inclusion in Mexico (English)

Mexico has made substantial progress in gender equality, yet remaining finance gaps for women and women-owned businesses are limiting the country's private sector growth and economic development.

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F4D RESULTS | Donor’s Perspective

F4D RESULTS | Donor’s Perspective

An interview with Franziska Spoerri, Head of Macroeconomic Support Division, The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) on F4D’s strengths and what success of the program would look like.

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Impact | F4D Advances Reforms to Support Digital Payments in Peru

Impact | F4D Advances Reforms to Support Digital Payments in Peru

The revolution in fast payments is sweeping across nearly all of Latin America. The number of fast payments per capita in Peru has grown rapidly, from close to zero in 2019 to more than 3 per month.

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News | How F4D’s Results Architecture Aligns with the World Bank Group Scorecard

News | How F4D’s Results Architecture Aligns with the World Bank Group Scorecard

The World Bank Group is doubling down on impact transforming the way teams design and implement programs, generate and share knowledge, and measure results.

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Blog | A fast payments revolution in Latin America

Blog | A fast payments revolution in Latin America

The revolution in fast payments is sweeping across nearly all of Latin America, with huge implications for the affordability, convenience, and customer-centric design of digital financial services.

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PUBLICATIONS | Distressed Asset Management & Divestment Practices by Deposit Guarantee Funds in Serbia and Ukraine

PUBLICATIONS | Distressed Asset Management & Divestment Practices by Deposit Guarantee Funds in Serbia and Ukraine

TThis paper supported by F4D discusses the key features of client countries’ financial systems, takes stock of thereforms undertaken during the last decade, while alsoidentifying and explaining individual and systemic banking crises in the broader ECA region.

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PUBLICATIONS | Boosting SME Finance for Growth: The Case for moreEffective Support Policies

PUBLICATIONS | Boosting SME Finance for Growth: The Case for moreEffective Support Policies

This comprehensive guide supported by F4D offers strategic and actionable insights for policymakers to enhance access to finance for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). It outlines seven strategic recommendations designed to reach underserved sectors and unlock private capital.

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About F4D

Finance for Development Partners

Our work is made possible through the generous contributions of development partners. Each one of our partners brings technical expertise, advocacy, and coordination efforts that help us deliver on the F4D’s ambition, together.

The F4D Umbrella Program is supported by the Agence Française de Développement(AFD), the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), the Gates Foundation (GF), the European Commission (EC), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).

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Agence Française de Développement

The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group funds, supports and accelerates the transition to a fairer and more sustainable world.

https://www.afd.fr
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Federal Ministry Republic of Austria

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government ministry of Austria responsible for diplomatic missions and immigration, the administration of foreign policy, and the maintenance of the country's relations with international organisations, especially the European Union.

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Gates Foundation

We are a nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. We are focused on results. Those that can be measured. And those measured in ways beyond numbers.

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Global Affairs Canada

We define, shape and advance Canada’s interests and values in a complex global environment. We manage diplomatic relations, promote international trade and provide consular assistance. We lead international development, humanitarian, and peace and security assistance efforts. We also contribute to national security and the development of international law.

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European Union

The official website of the European Commission, providing access to information about its political priorities, policies and services.

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Swiss Confederation SECO

SECO is the federal government's centre of expertise for all core issues relating to economic policy. Its aim is to ensure sustainable economic growth by putting in place the necessary regulatory and economic policy conditions.

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2023 F4D Annual Report

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2024 F4D Annual Report

We invite you to read the F4D’s 2024 Annual Report. The interactive e-book showcases how the program is driving transformational change on the ground and leveraging financing for greater impact.

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