Analytics

Data ecosystem for financial inclusion 2.0 and the real economy

Often policy makers, regulators and financial service providers are far removed from the realities of the people whose lives we are trying to improve. Data is one of the ways in which we are able to connect financially excluded people to the formal financial sector and thereby improve desirable societal outcomes such as poverty reduction and equality. […]

• 2019• Blogs
FinScope MSME

Sizing the grey economy: An improved FinScope MSME methodology

The MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise) sector is arguably the biggest employer in many economies, particularly in the developing world, and observed to be the biggest absorber for marginalised segments such as women, youth and poor communities. The broader problem, particularly in developing economies, is the large(r) proportion of informal enterprises that fall below […]

• 2019• Blogs
SADC FI

Measuring Progress: Financial inclusion in SADC – 2019 Report

The MAP country implementation is a key pillar of the SADC Financial Inclusion strategy, implemented with the SADC Secretariat and the SADC Committee for Central Bank Governors (CCBG). The SADC CCBG as part of the 2020 strategy committed to a repository of statistics to measure domestic and regional financial inclusion on the basis of our […]

• Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Zimbabwe• 2019• 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