Tag: Equity Bank

MicroSave’s “Payment Banks: What can we learn from Indian experience” is a handbook encapsulating 20 years of on-the-ground research and technical assistance; creating successful business cases while serving the mass market. The handbook provides deep insights, from across the globe, around strategy, product development, and agent network development/management.

These short articles are based on years of on-the-ground research and technical assistance dedicated to developing sound business models and operations to underpin profitable approaches to serving the mass market, thus advancing financial inclusion.

In this blog post, we reveal the secrets of how the mantra of a “market-led approach” actually works for product development in financial services

Equity Bank’s introduction of the thin SIM under the Equitel brand is an important development for the Kenyan financial market as it brings customers more choice in terms of providers, and will hopefully push product innovation further in a market that has had trouble evolving beyond payments.  We believe that to really make digital finance […]

Thin SIM is evolving digital finance market of Kenya. M-PESA, the most successful mobile money offering, has started to feel it too. This blog brings forth the emerging scenario.

This briefing note, discusses in detail, the key strategic and operational factors behind the success of Equity Bank’s agency banking model.