Region: South America

There has been a confusion around the business case for digital transformation. Most financial institutions think of it as a cost.

This video highlights the benefits of enrolling for our course in digital financial services(DFS101): Some of these benefits are; The opportunity to transform your business and to respond to the emerging challenges and opportunities that the digital financial opportunities offers us all. 

In this video series-1, MicroSave discusses the Credit unions that play a pivotal role in providing access to financial services to the base of the pyramid. The credit union movement is based on savings mobilisation as the foundation of microfinance. Here, MicroSave looks at the lessons from one of the most successful credit union systems […]

In this video series-4, Kurt Koenigsfest, CEO of BancoSol, Bolivia, talks about the challenges they faced in the beginning. He mentions liquidity was a major issue. So, to promote savings the bank chose a mix of staff from both savings and lending background. He further describes the four key success factors that are critically important […]

“In this video series-2 Alex Silva, a microfinance pioneer, explain in detail the major reasons for the failure of microfinance institutions – an important topic that – so far- has not been talked about. Without doubt, practitioners from around the world stand to benefit from this seminal study of Latin American MFIs. Explaining these failings, […]

In this video series-3, Alex Silva, a microfinance pioneer, summarises the details of the study of MFI failures, gives important recommendations for MFI sponsors, managers, and funders, such as: recognise microfinance as financial intermediation, focus on risk management systems, and create good corporate governance. Detailing on the specific conclusions of the study, Alex recommends donors […]