Staff Directory

Juan Carlos Izaguirre

Senior Financial Sector Specialist

Juan Carlos Izaguirre currently leads CGAP’s responsible digital credit work and provides regulatory/supervisory expertise to CGAP’s responsible digital finance ecosystems and supply-side gender-disaggregated data work. Previously, he led CGAP’s work on digital finance supervision, market monitoring, and outcomes-focused consumer protection. He has over 20 years of experience in digital financial inclusion, consumer protection, deposit insurance, and prudential regulation and supervision. He has worked with authorities and standard setters, including the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, to develop and adopt responsible financial inclusion policy, regulation, and supervision. He has also led supervision training with Toronto Centre, Digital Frontiers Institute, Financial Stability Institute, and Boulder Institute of Microfinance. 

Before joining CGAP, Juan Carlos co-founded the World Bank’s Global Program on Financial Consumer Protection, where he co-authored Good Practices for Financial Consumer Protection, and led technical assistance for over 20 countries. Previously, he was a prudential and conduct supervisor at Peru's Superintendence of Banking, Insurance, and Private Pensions. 

Juan Carlos holds master’s degrees in international relations and public administration from Syracuse University, and a master’s in finance from Universidad del Pacífico of Peru. He served for ten years on the Board of GLOBE, the World Bank’s resource group for LGBT+ employees and allies.

By Juan Carlos Izaguirre

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Cloud Computing for Financial Inclusion: Lessons from the Philippines

For the first time, the Philippine central bank has allowed a bank to move its core banking operations to the cloud. Its approach, balancing caution with forward thinking, holds lessons for regulators in other countries.
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Regulator’s Friend or Foe? Cloud Computing in Financial Inclusion

When regulated and supervised properly, cloud computing can be a boon to financial institutions trying to reach underserved customers. Here are some tips for regulators and supervisors in emerging markets.
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How Regulators Can Foster More Responsible Digital Credit

Regulators can help ensure digital credit helps, rather than harms, poor customers by taking these steps.
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4 Regulatory Enablers for Digital Finance: A Gender Perspective

Unless policies consider gender, we risk leaving behind the most vulnerable in society, particularly women, limiting our ability to achieve the SDGs. However, if implemented with gender in mind, the basic regulatory enablers of digital finance can increase women's financial inclusion.
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It's Time to Slow Digital Credit's Growth in East Africa

New research from Kenya and Tanzania reveals that digital credit is often used for consumption purposes and that delinquency and default rates are high, suggesting funders of digital credit markets should prioritize consumer protection.