Global Findex: the number of banked people is growing
Follow on Google News Financial inclusion is a long-standing global concern. Data from the Global Financial Index (Global Findex) project had great repercussions when it showed, at the beginning of the last decade, a huge contingent of unbanked people around the world. The latest survey of this...
Rural credit: new times, new criteria
Follow on Google News The National Rural Credit System (SNCR) was created in 1965 with the aim of guaranteeing funds for the costing and investment of rural activities. This initiative recognized the importance of agriculture to the Brazilian economy and...
Credit fintechs: their impact on financial inclusion
Follow on Google News The term fintech has become popular: it appears in the specialized press, in the vocabulary of regulators and in the daily lives of consumers who are more attentive to market trends. Since the phenomenon emerged, there has been an expectation that it could expand the...
Inflation, interest rates and credit: revisiting the outlook
Follow on Google News We're almost halfway through the year. Since January, a lot has changed, both in the global and domestic economic scenarios. The permanent revision of projections has proved necessary because it's impossible to predict some events that change so...
Do you know about guided credit?
Follow on Google News Access to working capital and investment resources is crucial to keeping a company afloat and enabling it to grow over time. Capital turns a business idea into an operation, generating cash flow and...
New Economy: what about the NoHolders?
Follow on Google News I have had the privilege of participating virtually in international forums on ESG, Sustainable Finance, the New Economy, Climate Protection and other related topics. My reading of ESG is that the United States and Europe have...