Press Release: BFA Global and J.P. Morgan collaboration set to transform spaza shop industry in South Africa’s townships
A country-first initiative to expand reach of digital commerce solutions to thousands of spaza shops over the next nine...
¿Las Neo-Cooperativas como los próximos disruptores del sector financiero? Un experimento conceptual
In English Durante la pandemia de COVID-19, las cooperativas financieras mexicanas han continuado prestando sus servicios a casi 8...
A creative approach to startup financing: Graviti combines grant, debt and equity investment, linked to impact outcomes
It took Catalyst Fund portfolio company Graviti only two months to raise a debt round that will finance 600+...
NeoCo-ops as the next disruptors in the financial sector? A thought experiment
En Espanõl Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Mexican financial cooperatives have continued to serve their nearly 8 million members primarily...
Post-COVID prognosis for gig workers in China: slow and steady improvement
While most economies in the world are still stumbling from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is reported...
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...
Women and youth may be weathering COVID better than others, but the most vulnerable are getting left behind
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to ransack economies across developed and emerging markets, expectations are that low-income people –...
The market gap for climate change solutions in Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the vulnerabilities of our health, financial, and economic systems. Scientists are warning that, at...
The glass ceiling, even at home: How a report on poverty in Nigeria reveals an enduring gender gap in household headship
Summary We are told by the Nigeria National Bureau of Statistics that female heads of household in Nigeria...
Imagining Post-COVID recovery
Originally posted on the FSD Kenya Website, July 10, 2020 How Financial Diaries families imagine reconstructing their income streams...