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Latest publications on Financial education

Mexico | Financial Product Ownership and Access to Basic Financial Courses in 2024

24 March 2025

On March 13, 2025, the results of the 2024 National Financial Inclusion Survey were presented. This information is used to construct several indicators related to financial product ownership and participation in basic financial courses for different groups.

Mexico | Considerations to invest in financial products

19 March 2024

This press article provides advice on some general considerations that must be taken into account when investing in financial assets.

Mexico | What do finances have to do with obesity and being overweight?

3 March 2023

Considering that March 4 is the World Obesity Day, this press article analyzes not only the problems associated with obesity and overweight, but also the possible effects that could have on family spending.

Financial Regulation: Weekly Update. January 13, 2023

13 January 2023

In this publication you will find, on a weekly basis, our selection of the most relevant news regarding financial regulation.

Mexico | ENAFIN 2021: Advances in digitization and challenges in access to financing

12 September 2022

On August 29, 2022, the results of the National Survey on Business Financing (ENAFIN) 2021 were presented. This report aims to analyze the progress and challenges regarding the financial inclusion of companies, reviewing issues of financing and digital payment methods.

Mexico | ENIF 2021: Financial inclusion declines and gender gap reaches 13.8pp

23 May 2022

On May 11, 2022, the results and databases of the National Survey of Financial Inclusion 2021 were published. This report has the objective of analyzing the advances or setbacks in some indicators of the financial inclusion of the population in Mexico between 2018 and 2021.

Mexico | Inflation 2021, how it affects and what can be done

10 February 2022

As is known, Mexico is at a time of high inflation, the National Consumer Price Index (INPC) stood at 7.36% at the end of 2021 and hasn’t had that level since more than twenty years. How does this fact affect personal finances and financial decisions for 2022?

Spain | Looking at financial vulnerability beyond income

23 August 2021

A year and a half after the pandemic began, the COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of households having the financial resilience to tackle the economic consequences of a scenario of high uncertainty.

Mexico | Wasting money polluting or saving it to contribute to climate change?

3 August 2021

Press release. One of the pillars in financial education syllabi is saving. If this is combined with awareness to contribute to the mitigation of climate change, there is a formula in which not only one-person wins, but also society as a whole.

Mexico | Perspectives for financial inclusion and education in 2020

10 November 2020

Regarding the National Financial Education Week, we recover the main advances, setbacks and changes that Mexico has had in financial inclusion and education. We present the most notable aspects of the National Policy for Financial Inclusion 2020, along with the latest figures of the country in financial inclusion.

Mexico | Physical and financial health in the face of Covid-19

11 September 2020

With Covid-19, it is not only necessary to take care of physical health, but also financial health, mainly because we are exposed to negative variations in income. The note presents recommendations in case of being under these variations.

At almost 50 years from the first of the Christmas bonus mandatory in Mexico

2 December 2019

At almost 50 years from the first of the Christmas bonus mandatory in Mexico, the note gives recommendations for using it, and safety and self-control tips for the financial health of workers in Mexico who receives this bonus.

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