Samveet Sahoo
Manager
Samveet Sahoo is a Manager in Digital Financial Services domain of MSC India, focused in Payments and Distribution. He has seven years of experience in business strategy, client management, new product development, and stakeholder engagement in the financial services sector, spanning digital financial solutions to rural and inclusive banking.
Posts by Samveet Sahoo
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on micro, small & medium enterprises (MSMEs): Bangladesh report
The COVID-19 crisis has proven devastating for MSMEs in Bangladesh, which have seen their revenues reduce to almost half. Our report analyzes the pandemic’s economic consequences on MSMEs and highlights their coping strategies. It also provides policy recommendations to help them recover.
Jan 28, 2021
Samveet Sahoo, Abhishek Anand, Nabila Khurshed and Khandaker Shaoli Hassan
Jan 28, 2021
Samveet Sahoo, Abhishek Anand, Nabila Khurshed and Khandaker Shaoli Hassan
A boon for online commerce: How is COVID-19 transforming the industry in Bangladesh?
Though COVID-19 has been a catastrophe for most segments of the global economy, it has aided the growth in few sectors such as digital finance and digital commerce. This blog highlights the impact of the pandemic on e-commerce and f-commerce in Bangladesh and how the FinTech industry can utilize this opportunity.
Dec 8, 2020
SSN MFS report (Phase II): Assessment of Social Safety Net disbursements, Bangladesh
The Aspire to Innovate (a2i) program in Bangladesh has been working with various government ministries and departments to digitize the social security net (SSN) payments. This report, based on the second phase of MSC’s evaluation, highlights the progress made in the digitization of SSN payments.
Dec 3, 2020
SSN MFS report (Phase I): Assessment of Social Safety Net disbursements, Bangladesh
The Aspire to Innovate (a2i) program in Bangladesh has been working with various government ministries and departments to digitize payments under the social security net (SSN). This report provides insights into MSC’s evaluation of the pilot for the digitization of SSN payments.
Dec 3, 2020
Impact of COVID-19 on banking agents in Bangladesh
On 11th March, 2020, WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Given the nature and extent of the outbreak, Aspire to Innovate (a2i) Bangladesh and MSC initiated a study to understand its impact on banking agents. Based on the study, this report provides recommendations to help build resilience to the pandemic.
Dec 3, 2020
Samveet Sahoo, Diya Chatterjee, Sunil Bhat and Khandaker Shaoli Hassan
A woman micro-merchant who went digital to build resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic
As part of the i3 Program in Bangladesh, we met Khushi, a micro-merchant in Khilgaon, Dhaka. Khushi’s story reflects the journey of more than 2 million micro-merchants who transitioned to a digital mode of payment and kept their businesses running during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dec 3, 2020
Enabling the community to embrace digital payments as the new normal after the COVID-19 pandemic
Since the onset of the pandemic, the low- and moderate-income (LMI) segment had a direct impact on their day-to-day life. We reflect through Kabita, an LMI customer in Bangladesh, on the barriers LMIs faced during the pandemic and how DFS nudged them towards building resilience.
Dec 2, 2020
LMI client impressions from Bangladesh and Vietnam
Various socio-economic dimensions drive the financial needs, aspirations, and behaviors of low- and moderate-income (LMI) customers. Customers from Bangladesh and Vietnam, through these snippets, describe their challenges and how the i3 Program helped them overcome these challenges.
Dec 1, 2020