This year’s theme "Finance to Empower & Protect" reflects the core of Cerise+SPTF’s new 10-year strategy, focused on building a financial sector that protects, empowers, and supports customers as they navigate evolving challenges.

The partnership is built around three core pillars: technical capacity building, the promotion of financial inclusion and financial literacy, and the development of secure and resilient payment systems.

Cybersecurity and digital fraud are closely intertwined in financial services, as vulnerabilities in digital systems enable both institutional cyber incidents and fraud against users. This paper uses publicly available data to review and examine important trends underlying the growing concern of digital fraud.

The Consumer Finance Risk Monitor 2026 examines trends and challenges affecting financial consumers in 60 jurisdictions, and discusses responses for policymakers, regulators and supervisors.

This step reflects the CBUAE’s proactive supervisory approach and its commitment to keeping pace with rapid developments in digital transformation and smart financial services.

As open finance regimes proliferate, consumer experience frameworks must lay the foundation for consumer empowerment and protection.

This toolkit provides an overview of key trends, evidence, and emerging practices in gender-sensitive consumer protection, drawing on member experiences, surveys, and stakeholder consultations.

Cerise+SPTF and Grameen Foundation collaborated on research to test a survey instrument designed to measure the nature and prevalence of financial abuse.

When a breadwinner dies without a plan, their assets frequently go unclaimed or are taken by unintended parties. Low-income families need to be empowered to safeguard the future for the generations that follow.

This publication offers a comparative analysis of data protection laws across Asia and Africa, identifying enforcement gaps and proposing reforms to foster secure, inclusive, and trust-driven digital ecosystems in emerging economies.