Inclusive & Digital Finance Track

Access to finance for all communities and suitable financial products can present important opportunities, though sound risk management will be key. Digital technologies can play a key role in expanding financial inclusion and overcoming many of the constraints in local regulation and financial market infrastructure

The Digital & Inclusive Finance Track aims to explore the undisputable link between technological innovations and financial inclusion. The digital finance approach is the most promising way to advance financial inclusion since it offers benefits to both providers and customers. The main themes that will be addressed revolve around Digital Finance and Financial Inclusion as overall topics, some of the more specific subjects include Digital Transformation, Digital Finance Ecosystem, Key Technologies and Trends, Financial Inclusion Policymaking, the Potential of Digital Financial Inclusion and the link between Financial Inclusion and Climate Change.

Registrations for the 2024 Summer Academy are now open. 

Spaces for the programme are limited! Register today to book your place.

The agenda is packed full of interactive sessions with seasoned industry experts, networking sessions as well as entertainment and external site visits.*

Site Visit

On the afternoon of Wednesday 10 July, participants will get the chance to visit a German instituion for an external site visit. The site visit offers a more practical perspective on some of the industry's most pressing challenges.

Trend Elective

The trend elective opens up the whole Summer Academy for all participants. Network and engage with participants from other tracks while taking a deeper diver into further topics that matter to you, outside of your selected track. This year, we will explore:

- Robo Investing

- Refugee Financing 

- Impactful Innovation

- Climate Risk Management

- Adaptation Planning

*Agenda is subject to change and confirmation

The inclusive & digital finance track will have the following objectives:

• Understanding of digital transformation process and the impact on financial institutions

• Ability to understand the business impact of disruptive technologies and how they can be applied to innovate business models and processes

• Get an overview of digital finance ecosystem, key trends and challenges and understand the key stakeholders and their dynamics

• Get a comprehensive glimpse of the global financial inclusion landscape and discuss the main challenges that the goal of effective financial inclusion faces, focusing on critical policy areas, both from the practitioners and the policymakers’ perspective. As a new topic, the track will address the link between financial inclusion and climate change and its implications.

• Discuss the key elements behind the digital financial inclusion ecosystem and recognize the approaches required in an enabling regulatory framework.

• Explore the innovative features of the Malaysia's Financial Inclusion Framework 2023 – 2026.

The Summer Academy will cater to a wide range of finance professionals from commercial banks, microfinance institutions, central banks and regulatory/government institutions, development organisations, and donor agencies.

This track in particular will prove highly valuable for practitioners such as financial service providers, both banks and non-banks such as microfinance institutions, including fintechs and other financial sector innovators. The track will also be helpful for financial regulators involved in the drafting of prudential and digital financial inclusion regulations, and other policymakers currently implementing inclusive and digital finance initiatives and programs. International development agencies and organisations may also find the track useful for advancing institutional goals.