Can Digital Savings Groups Bridge the Digital Divide?
By Innocent Ephraim (FSDT), Daniel Mhina (FSDT), Juliet Kiluwa (FSDT), Daryl Collins (BFA) Technology is an inevitability, it is...
GOING BEYOND REGULATORY SANDBOXES TO ENABLE FINTECH INNOVATION IN EMERGING MARKETS
Although technological solutions promise access to cheaper and safer financial services, creating regulation that enables innovation in the fintech...
Early Insights on Incentivizing Indian Customers to Go Cashless
Early this year, Amitabh Kant, CEO of the National Institution for Transforming India (Niti Aayog), declared “Cards, ATMs, POS...
Racing into Machine Learning: Data Readiness and the Developing World
Machine Learning (ML) technology can help us draw important insights from data, but it is imperative to recognize a...
Mobile Money Meets Microcredit: Creating an Evidence-Based Cross-Sell Strategy
By Kristy Bohling and Kelly Nguyen Financial institutions, including those serving low-income clients, regularly turn to cross-selling to engage...
Mobile Money Meets Microcredit: Three Key Decisions in Taking a Concept from Design to Pilot
In a previous blog post, we were introduced to how SAJIDA Foundation in Bangladesh is using evidence from...
Delivering Modern Energy in Kenya, Building on Mobile Money
In late August, I had the great opportunity to spend time with the PayGo Energy team in Nairobi as part of...
How Favorable is the Environment for Inclusive Fintech in Ghana?
The FIBR (Financial Inclusion on Business Runways) project is an action research project of BFA (in partnership with...
What does Inclusive Fintech Look Like in Ghana?
Introducing FIBR Partners, Farmerline, IT Consortium and Nomanini FIBR, or Financial Inclusion on Business Runways is a new project...