Associate Director
Anup Singh leads MSC’s regional office in Anglophone Africa and heads the Helix Institute based in Nairobi, Kenya. With 16 years of experience, his expertise includes the digital transformation of financial institutions, digital readiness assessment of social protection programs, digital credit scoping, design and policy, training programs, and FinTech mapping, scoping, and policy design.
Anup has advised more than 150 institutions, including governments, FinTechs, financial institutions, investors, and multilateral organizations in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and South Africa in the African continent, and India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Myanmar, China, Papua New Guinea in the Asian continent. He has also trained at the Boulder Institute of Microfinance, Italy, in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021.
A few examples of his recent work are as follows:
Over the counter transactions: A threat to or a facilitator for digital finance ecosystems?
This report provides an analytical perspective on the pros and cons of mobile money over the counter (OTC) transactions.
Apr 1, 2019
Apr 1, 2019
Fintech in Uganda- Implications For Regulation
A wide variety of FinTech firms are emerging globally and indeed, also in Uganda. These firms are offering new products and services underpinned by new technologies. There is much hope that these new approaches to delivering financial products and services offer the potential to bring about benefits to consumers in terms of increased access, speed, […]
Nov 1, 2018
Philip Rowan, Kieran Garvey, Bryan Zhang, Miguel A Soriano, Zain Umer, Kat Cloud, David Cracknell, Anup Singh, Sam Kutosi and Doreen Ahimbisibwe
Nov 1, 2018
Philip Rowan, Kieran Garvey, Bryan Zhang, Miguel A Soriano, Zain Umer, Kat Cloud, David Cracknell, Anup Singh, Sam Kutosi and Doreen Ahimbisibwe
Digital Credit- challenges and potential
This video gives market insights from Kenya: The number of people who have borrowed digital loans, the portfolio quality of these loans as well as the number of people negatively listed on the credit reference bureau
Oct 30, 2018
Oct 30, 2018
Overview of digital credit
This video gives an overview of the rapid growth in digital credit and focuses on the Kenyan landscape
Oct 30, 2018
Winter is coming: Key lessons on digital transformation for financial institutions
In this blog, we look at the “how” – the detailed steps for digital transformation.
Sep 29, 2018
Sep 29, 2018
Winter is coming: Digital disruption and its impact on the financial services industry
A convergence of technology with finance, which, in turn, resulted in the emergence of FinTechs, has been changing the very fundamental nature of the financial industry.
Sep 21, 2018
Sep 21, 2018
Winter is coming: Managing the digital onslaught
This blog discusses how the incumbents can bring about a digital transformation to utilise the disruptive power of technology and innovation.
Sep 21, 2018