Tag: Financial inclusion
Inclusive FinTechs in Francophone Africa Côte d’Ivoire report
The ecosystem in Côte d’Ivoire comprises 37 FinTechs alongside 18 enablers and funding partners. Inclusive FinTechs catalyze financial inclusion by providing convenience and ease of use of products and services. They represent a new paradigm of design and implementation strategies for financial inclusion. However, they also pose new challenges.
Jul 23, 2020
Inclusive FinTechs in Francophone Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo country report
The DRC offers massive market potential for nascent technology start-ups. The political environment supports innovation, entrepreneurship, and digital services. The objective of the National Digital Plan is to drive a vibrant market and improve infrastructure to accelerate opportunities to drive financial inclusion.
Jul 23, 2020
Inclusive FinTechs in Francophone Africa: Togo country report
Togo has ambitious plans to embrace digitization as a lever to modernize the economy and society. To this effect, it has created innovation centers to support the startup industry and provide an environment that allows innovation and research and development. The World Bank’s Doing Business 2020 Report has rated Togo as Africa’s best reformer in 2019.
Jul 14, 2020
Interoperability and shared agent networks
Bank and mobile money agents have grown to become key access points for financial services. However, there exist challenges and costs that make it hard for providers to efficiently manage this channel. Shared agent networks ease these challenges for providers while improving the business case for agents. This video highlights our perspectives on shared agent network models.
Jul 3, 2020
Perspectives on shared agent networks from emerging economies
Shared agent networks help providers to reduce the cost of platform management and maintenance, agent training and monitoring, as well as improved liquidity management – particularly in fully interoperable environments. Read more about how formal and informal shared agent networks are helping to deepen financial inclusion in emerging markets.
Jun 30, 2020
Connecting India to Bharat through P2P lending
A digital P2P marketplace that connects credit-worthy borrowers with lenders has come as a blessing for small business owners whose loan applications typical banks would otherwise reject. In this blog, we trace RupeeCircle’s journey so far including the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on it
Jun 22, 2020