Learning From Our Past: Successful Ecosystem Evolutions Follow a Common Path
In early 2021, BFA Global, CGAP, UNCDF’s Better than Cash Alliance, PayPal, the UN’s Race to Resilience, and the...
Embracing Change Management to Better Serve Customers
Banco W is a financial institution in Colombia which OPTIX’s research discovered had a rapidly-changing client base. As a...
Improving Financial Health of People in Bangladesh
OPTIX worked with SAJIDA Foundation, a microfinance institution in Bangladesh, whose low-income customers were looking for a reliable credit...
Meet the iWorkers – Illa
Illa is an artisan based in Ghana who sells his goods both in-person in an artisan marketplace, and online....
CEP FAS App Demo: Helping Clients Save for the Future
CEP, and microfinance institution in Vietnam, wanted to help its clients build resilience for the long-term future. Loan officers...
Acreimex Lending App Demo: Getting Loans to Clients Faster
Acreimex is a cooperative serving low-income people in Mexico. The group credit loan is crucial to its success, but...
Riding (the) Rocket to Digitized Microfinance
A review of customers’ experiences with cashless loan and savings collections in Bangladesh Co-authored with Ashirul Amin SAJIDA adopts...
The Odd Couple: PAYGo Solar and Financial Service Providers
Co-written by Elizabeth Davidson If you are one of the 73 percent of Ugandans who is not connected to...
Pioneering Cashless Microfinance in Bangladesh
As part of the OPTIX project, funded by MetLife Foundation and run by BFA Global, SAJIDA started exploring options...
Is Mobile Money Killing Off the Group Microfinance Model (And Would That Be Such a Bad Thing)?
In the summer of 2017, SAJIDA Foundation, an NGO and microfinance provider in Bangladesh, made a bold decision...