FinScope

FinScope South Africa 2018 Survey Highlights

South Africans are leveraging the informal and formal markets to survive difficult times. We are hosting the FinScope South Africa 2018 survey highlights on 22 November, where we will delve deeper on the levels of financial inclusion in South Africa. Follow us on twitter @finmarktrust with our hashtag #FinScopeSA2018 as we share some of the key findings […]

• South Africa• 2018• Events
SADC FI

Achieving Financial Inclusion Goals Through Digital ID in Malawi

Digital Financial Identity has been top of mind for FinMark Trust since the idea was first raised in the SADC FI Forum in July 2017. We followed this up with a Digital Financial Identity Workshop in January 2018, where we delved into the challenges and benefits of a digital financial identity. In mid-July, FinMark Trust […]

• Malawi• 2018• Blogs
SADC FI

Will inclusive financing mechanisms promote more women-led agribusinesses?

Written by Innocent Njati Banda Banks need to step up to support women in agriculture Just like any other business, women-led agribusinesses require a number of factors to be successful, such as availability of affordable high-quality inputs, equipment and labour; availability of suitable land for growing crops, rearing animals or processing produce; technical support from […]

• 2018• Blogs
SADC FI

Malawi Digital Financial ID Feasibility Assessment

The World Bank’s ID4D Programme estimates that 375 million adults in developing countries are excluded from formal financial services. This is on account of unavailability of a suitable proof of identity as per know your customer (KYC) requirements (ID4D 2016). This gap can only be bridged by the development of a trusted identity system that […]

• Malawi• 2018• Reports
SADC FI

Hackathon: Innovations for Mobile Financial Services (OneMoney Hackathon)

The OneMoney Hackathon was held at the TelOne Centre for Learning from the 13th -15th July 2018, a product of the partnership between FinMark Trust, NetOne, TelOne, Elevate Trust and ZimHack. The competition aimed to promote product innovations for inclusive financial services within the mobile financial services sector, with a particular focus on poor and […]

• Zimbabwe• 2018• Reports

What We Do

Data For Financial Markets

Data is the new oil. Big data, small data, structured data, unstructured data, demand side data, supply side data… we live in a data rich world. With this data ecosystem, being so abundant and our research questions more complex than ever before, we can no longer only rely on limited traditional Financial Inclusion (FI) data solutions. Not only is there now a plethora of new data sources, but traditional data collection methods are becoming prohibitively expensive along with serious questions being raised about the quality and relevance of this research.

The DATA FOR FINANCIAL MARKETS programme was established to address these new data opportunities and challenges. The programme houses our new and improved gold standard FinScope Consumer & MSME survey offering, along with a suite of new products that include a low cost mobile data collection capability, Geospatial (GIS) solutions, a data portal housing numerous FI data sets and an Analytics capability than can generate insights from all data sources, including Big Data.

Products and Programmes

What We Do

Deepening Financial Inclusion

FinMark Trust runs a number of programmes in the SADC region aimed at deepening financial inclusion and de-veloping the inclusive financial sector, and the DFM products are integral to programme implementa-tion and delivery.

What We Do

Data For Financial Markets

What We Do

Deepening Financial Inclusion

SADC FI

SA FI