Panel 3: "Regulation and Supervision for Small Rural CFIs"

This panel focused on opportunities to improve current models of regulation and supervision of cooperative financial institutions (CFIs) in rural areas so that they maximize the protection of members' savings, while increasing financial inclusion in their markets. The discussion considered the challenges supervisors face in monitoring large numbers of small and geographically dispersed financial institutions with limited resources, as well as costs borne by the supervised CFIs themselves to comply with regulatory and supervisory requirements.