Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) grant snapshots capture the on-the-ground policy development experiences of developing and emerging country policymakers from the AFI membership, as they engage in leading innovative solutions to financial inclusion challenges in their country with the support of long-term or short-term grants from AFI.

This grant snapshot focuses on the experience of Russia and the unique challenges the country faces with financial access, as well as the efforts undertaken by the Russian Ministry for Economic Development, Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank of Russia, and the Russian Microfinance Center to find solutions by expanding agent banking and e-money in the country.