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September 11, 2018, 12:54:30 PM |
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The Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, is a global effort to unite financial leaders around the common goal of keeping clients as the driving force of the industry. In her role as vice president of The Smart Campaign, Isabelle leads worldwide efforts to keep clients prioritized first in financial inclusion, ensuring lenders commit to best-practice conduct. Within the Smart Campaign, Isabelle and her team have developed a number of Client Protection Principles such as: the prevention of over indebtedness, responsible pricing, and transparency and privacy of client data — all of which are aligned with the LendLedger ethos.
Isabelle’s Insights
Isabelle has extensive experience analyzing, helping to fund, and advocating for, best practice microfinance operations around the world. Her deep knowledge of microfinance institutions, SME lenders, small banks and fintech players will be very valuable in helping LendLedger develop a network that serves these organizations and their clients.
As leader of the Smart Campaign, Isabelle is at the forefront of understanding how next-generation digital lenders operate, and identifying responsible lending practices that can become a standard for the industry. LendLedger is proud to be a partner of the Smart Campaign, and Isabelle’s networks and leadership will be valuable inputs to ensure responsible lending is built-in to the LendLedger protocol.
About Isabelle
Isabelle came to The Smart Campaign with over 20 years of experience in microfinance and the formal banking sector. From 2007 to 2010, she managed Kiva’s early microfinance operations and developed its global strategy to maximize social impact. She helped to create the Microfinance Information eXchange (the MIX) in 2002, and led its strategic initiatives until 2007. (LendLedger’s co-founder Gautam Ivatury worked closely with Isabelle when he was at CGAP, a key funder for the MIX).
Isabelle has been a key contributor to best-practice publications on standards and financial performance monitoring, and is a founding member of Women Advancing Microfinance, the only organization for women professionals in microfinance.
Isabelle is deeply committed to reducing inequality and improving the lives of vulnerable people. She has devoted her career to spearheading innovative solutions that increase access to quality financial services and contribute to enhancing people’s lives.
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