What We Do

Building Women's Wealth Worldwide

A robust Women’s Market program can be a major profit driver for financial services providers. Membership in the Financial Alliance for Women helps ensure the success of these programs through access to a unique platform of peer learning and other resources that allow banks to build their capacity to serve women customers. The Alliance also uses our collective voice to advocate for greater awareness of women’s vital economic role as consumers, investors and job-creating entrepreneurs.

Harnessing the Power of the Female Economy

Women are the most powerful force we can use to better economies, but they face a number of barriers to financial inclusion. The Financial Alliance for women – formerly GBA – and our partners work in 135 countries to build innovative, comprehensive programs that provide women and women entrepreneurs with vital access to capital, markets, education and training.

How We Do It

PEER LEARNING

We facilitate peer learning across our membership to accelerate the learning curve and help ensure Women’s Market program success.

RESEARCH & KNOWLEDGE

We conduct innovative research, collate insight from our members and house essential resources that help them stay on the cutting edge.

IMPACT

We leverage our collective voice to advocate for desired policy change. Our impact can be seen in the success of the women customers our members have supported.

2010: BLC Bank of Lebanon begins looking at the Women's Market, quickly recognizing its potential not only as a growth opportunity, but also as a competitive differentiator. The bank becomes an Alliance member and starts its journey to capturing the female economy.

BLC Bank Video We Initiative — 2011: The bank decides to launch a Women's Market program, with the objective of becoming the Bank of Choice for women throughout the Middle East and North Africa. BLC conducts market research, creates a holistic Customer Value Proposition and establishes performance KPIs with the help of the Alliance.

2012: The bank officially launched its Women's Market program, We Initiative at an event with more than 500 attendees. BLC begins participating in women-focused panels at financial conferences around the world, giving the bank international exposure.

2013: The bank's Brilliant Lebanese Awards becomes a major event broadcast across the country, raising the honorees’ profiles and creating role models for women entrepreneurs throughout Lebanon.

2014: Just 2 years after launch, BLC’s We Initiative generates significant business returns, representing more than 18% of the bank’s profits. Double-digit growth is projected for the next 3 years.

What Members Say

Being part of the Alliance network gave us access to a wealth of knowledge. Peer-to-peer learning and the availability of research and data through the Alliance has proven invaluable in our journey.

Through the Alliance we have been able to support members in their efforts to serve their female economies and learned much along the way that we have used in our efforts to support women financially in Australia.

The Alliance facilitates us achieving our women banking goals by providing a climate to learn from each other and share experiences to create world-class best practices.