The financial sector can contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals in five key activities that can be discussed under two broad categories. First, proactively promoting sustainable development that can be done by financial inclusion, enhancing social and environmental impacts, and financing infrastructure development. The second category is defensive whereby the financial sector can help protect against negative shocks. This can be done by enhancing financial and economic stability at the macro-level and reducing vulnerability and risks of firms and households at the micro-level.