Financial Inclusion Unlocked

About Financial Inclusion Unlocked

The podcast meeting innovators and sector leaders who are unlocking the potential of financial inclusion as an enabler of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through a mix of in-depth conversations and documentary-style storytelling, the podcast highlights the people and projects driving meaningful change, while also exploring the big questions the sector needs to confront to move forward. Produced by SIJ Media

Publisher

SIJ Media

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Mar 2025

Latest episode

10 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

24 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Aug 2026

   S3 EP1 - What's The True Cost of Digital Finance with Willie Blackmon (IPA) and Francis Annan (UC Berkeley)

   Digital financial services have been one of the most significant development stories of the last two decades. Across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond, DFS has extended financial access to hundreds of millions of people, enabling remittances, savings, small business payments, and emergency transfers in ways that were simply impossible before. But scale brings scrutiny. As adoption deepens and DFS reaches communities with lower digital literacy, less price awareness, and fewer alternatives, the qu...

2. 

   3 Aug 2026

   S2 EP10 - Human Wildlife Conflict Insurance and Closing the Protection Gap in Africa

   The global insurance industry has spent centuries developing tools to manage risk, yet the people most exposed to climate shocks, from smallholder farmers to displaced communities, have historically been the least able to access them. Humanity Insured is an industry backed charity working to close that gap, with an ambition to make £2 billion in insurance coverage accessible to 30 million people by 2030, helping them build resilient futures and stay out of poverty. In this episode, Jack is j...

3. 

   9 Apr 2026

   S2 EP9 - Navigating Consumer Rights in the Mobile Money Era with Kennedy Kipkemboi, GSMA

   Consumer protection is fast becoming one of the defining challenges of the mobile money era. From fraud and impersonation scams to opaque fees and inadequate recourse, the risks facing digital financial services users are growing, and as mobile money scales across Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and other emerging markets, so do the vulnerabilities it creates. This episode takes a hard look at the full arc of consumer protection in mobile money: what the challenge looks like today, where the ...

Who has been a guest on Financial Inclusion Unlocked

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Radiant Yacu
• Luke Forau
• Lilian Nassanga Musoke
• Maren Hald Bjørgum
• Garance Wattez-Richard

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 25 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

38

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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