FINANCE, DATA, AND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS FOR AN EQUITABLE WORLD

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Accelerating Fintech Startups

Between 2016 and 2019, Catalyst Fund accelerated 25 fintech startups that went on to raise US$49.2 million in follow-on funding. Over the next three years, Catalyst Fund will accelerate 30 startups operating in our key markets: India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and South Africa.

BFA Global Goes Local

BFA Global Associate, Jacob Rosen, is to speak at UCI Law's event on AI and Fraud Detection on February 24, 2020. Charles P. Rettig, the 49th Commissioner of the IRS, is the keynote speaker. Click to register or find out more.

What is SupTech?

What is SupTech - and what could it mean for financial regulation? A recent paper explores the supervisory technology ambitions of 38 institutions and the implications for financial inclusion.

Thought Leadership

Our Founder and Chair, David Porteous, reflects on the implications of superplatforms on financial inclusion in a new FIBR briefing report - "Revisiting superplatforms and their implications".

Services

We provide an innovative mix of research, insight, and services across a broad range of topics important to our clients, using finance and technology to craft digital solutions at the frontier that empower individuals, organizations, and communities to improve lives and create a more sustainable and equitable world.

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From Our Portfolio

We leverage the opportunities created by a rapidly digitizing global economy, deploying our unique multi-disciplinary, nimble, client-centric approach to execute a range of projects combining financial tools, user-centered design, information, policy, and technology to characterize their challenges and design responses.

Project: Catalyst Fund

Catalyst Fund is a global accelerator program supporting early-stage startups inclusive fintech startups with grant capital, hands-on venture building support and connections to investors.

FIBR: Inclusive Digital Ecosystems

In this Note, we wish to update the evidence base in the light of this new learning in order to return to the core question: how can the emerging forms of work intermediated through digital platforms best offer a path to good work in the developing world?

Report: Future-Proofing Financial Institutions for Inclusion

How financial institutions innovate to improve financial health.

The Gig is Up FIBR Podcast Series

The Gig is Up is a three-part podcast series discussing the global gig economy covering everything from the disruption of Uber and Bolt to the challenges of Jumia in Africa and the ubiquity of Amazon.

VIDEO: Introducing FinnSalud Mexico

The FinnSalud Project will develop a set of standards together with a measurement tool that will help better align consumer financial health with provider ROI, ensuring that financial products and channels are designed in a way that enhances the financial health of both customers and financial actors.

VOICES: Can fintech bridge the digital divide in India?

Forecasters predict that Indians will conduct more than US$1 trillion in digital transactions by 2025. Eighty percent of Indians already own a bank account, 54% of Indians use broadband mobile connections, and data services and mobile devices are more affordable everyday.

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We help build innovative fintech solutions

for the world’s 3 billion underserved

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From the Blog

Voices

David del Ser | 18.12.2018

Don’t be THAT CEO

Management styles that hold you and your team back from product-market fit When it comes to venture-building, we can all agree that one of the first steps founders have...
From the field

Sebas Barerra | 07.03.2018

Harnessing UX to Test-Drive New Products

“A user-centric design process makes it easier to resolve ambiguity and keeps the process focused. If there’s a doubt about features that have to be implemented or what should...
Voices

Akansha Kasera | 28.10.2019

Re-envisioning fintech innovation in Kenya

“… technology to shape the future…rather than simply allowing the future to shape us.” – Alderman Peter Estlin, 691st Lord Mayor of the City of London Last...
From the field

David del Ser | 22.09.2017

The AI-Driven Bank in Emerging Markets

Co-authored by Alexandre Lazarow If you think artificial intelligence is a thing of the future, ask yourself why your Amazon homepage looks different from ours or how Google translates...

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