All Articles About Financial Services

Blog: For Financial Services Companies, Women Represent an Enormous (Missed) Opportunity

Chhavi Ghuliani, Manager, Advisory Services

As BSR’s recent report on the topic highlights, the world’s working poor need access to a range of formal financial products and services—including credit, savings, insurance, and remittances—in order to invest in economic opportunities, manage their money more effectively, and reduce risks related to illness or loss of employment. Read more →

Posted: August 9, 2011 | Topics: Economic, Social & Cultural Rights, Financial Services, Women & Sustainability

Report: Financial Inclusion in the Supply Chain

Approximately 2.5 billion of the world’s adults do not use formal financial services to save or borrow money. About 90 percent of them live in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Without access to formal financial institutions, people must rely on their own funds or risky informal services that charge excessive fees to invest in their health and welfare and that of their families. Read more →

Posted: August 2, 2011 | Topics: Economic Development, Economic, Social & Cultural Rights, Financial Services, Strategy & Integration | Download (PDF)

BSR Insight Article: Why Is Living Wage So Complex?

Roger McElrath, Manager, Advisory Services

Ever since the United Nations adopted its new human rights framework, companies have had an added impetus to ensure that the treatment of their employees, workers in supply chain partners, and people in local communities is just and in accordance with international standards. Read more →

Posted: August 2, 2011 | Topics: Consumer Products, Economic, Social & Cultural Rights, Energy, Financial Services, Food, Beverage & Agriculture, Health Care, Mining, Strategy & Integration, Supply Chain, Transportation, Travel & Tourism

Blog: Staff Spotlight: Celine Suarez

Celine Suarez, Manager, Advisory Services

Our staff spotlight on Celine Suarez. Read more →

Posted: June 24, 2011 | Topics: Financial Services, Human Rights, Travel & Tourism

Blog: How to Create Financial Inclusion for Workers in the Supply Chain

Chhavi Ghuliani, Manager, Advisory Services

We recently hosted a virtual roundtable on the topic of financial inclusion in the supply chain. Funded by Citi Foundation and co-hosted by Microfinance Opportunities, a non-profit that focuses on financial education, the two-hour event provided participants with an opportunity to share case studies, ask questions, and discuss challenges on bringing formal savings and remittances, among other vital financial services, to low-income workers in the supply chain. Read more →

Posted: June 24, 2011 | Topics: Financial Services, Supply Chain