01:23 Starting where insurance stops – the mandate for AXA Emerging Customers

(Find out more about AXA Emerging Customers here)

03:26 How COVID has exposed the vulnerabilities of emerging customers…

04:22 …and forced us all to take a crash course in health management

06:03 What is different about women’s insurance needs and preferences?

(You can read more in the brilliant “She for Shield” study from AXA, IFC and Accenture)

08:45 Debunking myths about women as insurance customers. Myth #1: Women are more loyal

09:50 Myth #2: Women are risk averse

10:29 Myth #3: Women are less fraudulent

10:54 What it means to serve women as decision-makers

14:13 The product changes that make a difference for women

16:19 Putting these lessons into practice to serve women in emerging markets 

19:57 Insurance without a Chinese wall – making insurance work for women at the heads of families and businesses

21:41 How to get gender on the strategic map for a company

24:11 Success as an intrapreneur

00:39 Before we start on the interview, a shoutout to the Homebrewed Feminism podcast. You can find the podcast at homebrewedfeminism.com and listen to their discussion of our interview with Marion Sharples in Episode 6: Equity > Equality.

01:07 The Women's Budget Group report on Migrant Women and the Economy. Read the full report here.

02:31 Immigration in the UK and the "hostile environment"

10:01 How men's and women's pattern of migration vary

13:27 Impacts on the economic position of migrant women

19:59 Challenges in accessing financial services

22:10 The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on migrant women

30:32 And what about when lockdown rules are relaxed?

35:53 The rights of migrants and the Black Lives Matter movement

39:38 The proposals of the Women's Budget Group to improve the economic position of migrants in the UK

46:00 Migrant women have faced the worst of our collective crises in 2020. Here, I also talk about the Women's Budget Group's webinar which brought together many organizations supporting migrant women, including Southhall Black Sisters, the Latin American Women's Rights Service, Women for Refugee Women and Foleshill Women's Training. You can find the webinar here.

You can find out more about Quipu through their website and find updates on their instagram.

And read here about the company's recent recognition in the Visa Everywhere Initiative awards, in which it won third place in Latin America and the Caribbean.

01:15 - The micro-businesses at the centre of local economies

03:11 - How COVID is both challenging and bolstering local economies

05:47 - The history of community currencies and how they can apply in Latin America today

09:08 - How Quipu uses a digital marketplace and community currency in order to build and maintain wealth locally

14:42 - Launching the Quipu platform in Baranquilla, Colombia, in the midst of a pandemic

16:10 - How micro businesses are using the Quipu platform in Baranquilla

19:07 - Co-designing the platform: What does a solidarity economy mean to you?

23:58 - Helping entrepreneurs access credit at fairer rates

28:31 - The importance of creating solidarity economies, and why its moving up the agenda now

32:06 - Next steps for Quipu

33:41 - Are we all in need of an emergency community currency?