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.Question 1: What share of surveyed banks in Latin America collect gender-disaggregated data and use that data in their operational decisions? Question 2: What share of bankers surveyed believes that the market for women-led small businesses is unserved or underserved?
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