Press Release: Announcing the $4.3M Catalyst Fund Inclusive Digital Commerce Accelerator in Ghana to improve the financial resilience of informal MSEs
ACCRA, Ghana, 19th October, 2020 – Catalyst Fund, managed by BFA Global, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation and...
MTN MoMo Pay Merchant Payments: Expanding Women’s Mobile Money Use in Ghana
MTN Ghana launched a merchant payment service in January 2017 called MoMo Pay to increase mobile money use in...
The iWorker Project – Country Diagnostic Report: Ghana
iWorkers are a new category of workers – people whose livelihoods are enabled by digital commerce platforms where they...
How to design PAYGo operational models to improve repayment
There has been a lot of work exploring why some pay-as-you-go (PAYGo) solar customers stop paying after they are...
The power of flexibility: How innovative payment models can expand access to energy services
In the past eight years, over 10 million people in emerging economies have acquired modern energy for the first...
Meet the iWorkers – Rhoda & Erica
The iWorker Project spoke with two entrepreneurs in Ghana, Rhoda and Erica, about their foodservice business, which they recently...
Meet the iWorkers – Joseph
Joseph, an Accra, Ghana-based entrepreneur sat down with the iWorker Project to discuss why he decided to leave a...
Superplatforms: Unlocking the Potential of Merchants, E-Commerce and Financial Services in Africa
FIBR explored the potential of superplatforms, the major tech platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp and others and their impact...
Why Alternative Lending Struggles to Scale in Emerging Markets
And What Fintech Companies Can Do About It During the past 10 years, the US, the UK and...
How Do We Increase Trust and Engagement in the Low-Income Customer’s Journey?
A Holistic Service Blueprint for Financial Services In today’s radically changing business landscape, the customer experience is important. We...