With Finance Forward, Cenfri takes a wide-angle view of the forces shaping inclusive financial services in Africa.  In this environmental scanning document, we present a snapshot of important ideas emerging in the business, economic, social, technological, physical and political spheres during the second quarter of 2010. 

Drawn from a robust stream of periodicals, Finance Forward encourages a broad awareness of the systemic and overlapping background forces shaping the future of inclusive financial services.  Finance Forward identifies four major themes and follows them through several interconnected environments and issues.