16 Stories by FIBR

How domestic fintech ecosystems shape the nature of innovation

David Porteous and Arend Kulenkampff on how fintech innovation can help achieve faster inclusive growth in Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa. This blog, the...
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What does effective acceleration look like for inclusive tech startups?

Catalyst Fund and partners share more than 10 years’ lessons learned from fintech accelerators in emerging markets, the US, and UK. These accelerators have...
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Inclusive fintech startups are pioneering products for the digital generation

The needs of the digital generation, and in particular of the gig and digital economy workers, are unique, and few products in the market...
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MTN MoMo Pay Merchant Payments: Expanding women’s Mobile Money use in Ghana

MTN Ghana launched a merchant payment service in January 2017 called MoMo Pay to increase mobile money use in markets and drive financial inclusion....
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Zambian micro and small enterprises during COVID-19: Wave One Findings

A majority of micro and small enterprises in Zambia are reporting less revenue due to the effects of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, a new...
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Snapshot of financial health during peak COVID-19

BFA’s third wave of the rapid online “dipstick” surveys of low- and lower-middle-income respondents in  Ghana, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, the UK,...
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Webinar Recap: The impact of COVID-19 on Financial Diaries respondents in Kenya

In this webinar recording, FSD Kenya and BFA Global present key findings from research on the social, financial, and economic impact of COVID-19 on...
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Short-term fixes are not enough if SMEs are to survive COVID-19

As the economic effects of the lockdowns worldwide begin to solidify, businesses large and small are collapsing, write BFA Global’s Coco Dong and Michelle...
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Inclusive fintech in the time of COVID-19

Catalyst Fund shares several examples of how its portfolio are helping customers in emerging economies through the COVID-19 crisis. By using their existing solutions...
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India is missing the tech-opportunity for responding to COVID-19

India should invest and expand the digital payment and commerce network and use it to facilitate social distancing and quarantine, the authors argue. The...
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