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Digital payments in India are about to reach an inflection point where we expect a threefold growth in value to USD 10 trillion by 2026, with every two out of three payments being non-cash. Our two-part series highlights the evolutionary and revolutionary initiatives in India that are currently driving the growth of digital payments.
MSC conducted a study that delves into women’s experiences as users of online lending platforms in Indonesia. We ran the study in collaboration with the Department of Criminology of the University of Indonesia, with support from Indonesia’s Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection (MoWECP). In the study, we used a gender lens to examine the risks in online lending platforms unique to women. The study findings led us to distill recommendations to improve the future of online consumer protection in Indonesia.
FPCs are powerful tools to allow smallholder farmers more control over the markets where they trade. This helps to transform agriculture productivity and increase small-scale producers’ incomes. However, cluster-based business organizations should recognize the inherent challenges that FPCs face and learn to address the pitfalls in managing FPCs to realize their potential. This blog outlines these challenges and share insights to address such pitfalls.
This blog examines the Kenyan government’s policy reforms to allow entrepreneurs better access to affordable and convenient credit. It specifically looks at how the government’s financial inclusion fund—the Hustler Fund—promises to improve the financial health of MSMEs.
In partnership with BRI (Bank Rakyat Indonesia), MSC connected BRILink agents to cooperatives under the Women Digital Ambassadors (WDA) project. The linking was part of our efforts to increase the accessibility of financial products and services for Indonesia’s rural women. We used MSC’s Datin app to monitor and evaluate each agent’s transactions and generate findings from the field. These findings allowed us to identify opportunities and challenges in linking agents to women cooperatives, which we distilled in our new blog. Read it here.
Our blog highlights the challenges that stop financial services providers from developing cheaper, long-term credit that can unlock productive credit for women micro and small entrepreneurs operating from open-air and cross-border markets in Kenya. It also examines solutions these financial services providers can employ to serve these women effectively.