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By María Jaramillo, Microfinance Opportunities (MFO) and Andrea Stiles, AVAL Consulting

Eduardo, a loan officer for Banco Solidario in Ecuador, has difficulty talking to potential clients about the microinsurance products that insurance companies offer to bank clients through the loan process. He is brief in his explanations as he fears clients could ask questions he would not know how to answer.

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In September, we at the Inter-American Development Bank had the opportunity to host the annual summit of the Global Banking Alliance for Women. GBA is a path-breaking consortium of more than 30 banks interested in serving women clients. While moderating a panel on gaps in data about the women’s market, I briefed the audience of about 200 on the gender-related results of a 2013 survey by FELABAN, the Latin American bankers’ association. The survey posed two questions to regional bankers regarding use of data broken down by gender and how banks serve their women clients.

Regular e innovar parecen verbos incompatibles a primera vista. En algunos mercados, como el financiero, determinados actores solamente pueden realizar las actividades que la ley autoriza. ¿Cómo entonces se podrían crear nuevas soluciones o introducir nuevos productos?

¿Cuál es el impacto de compartir conocimiento? En el FOMIN nos hicimos esa pregunta y por esa razón hace poco más de un año lanzamos el Diario de Aprendizaje con nuestras Agencias Ejecutores en microseguros en América Latina y el Caribe.