Digital financial services

Overview

Digital financial services are an essential part of our work. We empower financial institutions, FinTechs, regulators, and ecosystem players to harness the power of digital solutions, so they can reach underserved markets, improve operations, and deliver customer-centric solutions at scale. For more than two decades, we have designed, implemented, and validated digital financial services that are inclusive, responsible, and sustainable.

We combine human-centered design with deep customer insights to develop solutions in digital credit, savings, insurance, and payment customized to meet the needs of people from the low- and moderate-income segments. From embedded finance to mobile banking, we pilot, refine, and scale products with usability, trust, and affordability at the core.

We strengthen the last-mile delivery of financial services through robust agent networks, branchless banking models, and digital channels. We enhance agent recruitment and train, onboard, and monitor agents to ensure their long-term sustainability in partnership with mobile network operators and technology platforms.

We help institutions reimagine their core systems, automate processes, adopt paperless onboarding, integrate FinTech, and shore up the digital architecture needed for scale. The goal is operational efficiency, reduced cost of service, and reliable service delivery.

Our engagement with central banks, regulators, and policy bodies shapes enabling environments for digital finance. This includes policy design, regulatory technology (RegTech and SupTech solutions), consumer protection standards, and frameworks to ensure transparency, fairness, and accountability.

We expand access to finance for potential borrowers through alternative data, inclusive credit scoring, and responsible risk frameworks. Our models incorporate explainability and bias checks to help lenders reach MSMEs, first-time borrowers, informal workers, and other underserved groups.

Through our Helix Institute of Digital Finance and in-country training programs, we build the capabilities of leaders, practitioners, and field agents. Our practical, context-rich sessions are designed for practical and lasting impact and cover digital finance strategy, agent network management, customer protection, and product innovation.

What we do

FinTech, digital lending, and platforms

FinTech and digital lending have carved out new pathways for financial inclusion. Yet, underserved populations across Asia and Africa continue to stare down at persistent barriers.

Mobile financial services

MSC has deep global expertise in mobile financial services (MFS) delivered through agent networks, which spans strategic design, implementation, and scaling across multiple continents.

Payments

MSC’s payments ecosystem team creates secure, affordable, and widely accepted digital payments systems to improve the economic well-being of people from the low- and moderate-income segment.