Welcome to FinMark Trust

SADC Innovation and Investment Challenge Investor Demo Day

Three ventures from Botswana and Tanzania present solutions that address financial inclusion across the SADC region. Watch their investor pitches and product demonstrations

Southern African Development Community

2020 Annual Report

While we continue to focus on inclusive development of financial markets, we expanded our strategies to include a more direct focus on real economy impacts with FI 2.0

SADC Innovation and Investment Challenge ft. Iyinoluwa Aboyeji

How to turn local ideas into global business opportunities. Featuring Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Founder Future Africa Fund (Co-Founder Andela &Flutterwave)

Southern African Development Community

FinScope Mozambique Gender Dashboard 2020 (English)

This dashboard represents some of the key market data on financial inclusion with a focus on females.

Mozambique

FinScope Mozambique District Report 2019 (English)

The FinScope Mozambique 2019 survey is the third FinScope survey implemented in Mozambique, following the baseline of 2009 and repeat of 2014.

Mozambique

Innovative entrepreneurs are key to advancing real economic impact

In every crisis there is an opportunity that exists where innovative individuals can build solutions to the challenges we will be facing.

SMEs, MSMEs, Innovation, Digital Identity, Women and Youth

Programmes

Agricultural Value Chains

By promoting greater access to financial services we focus on ensuring that small scale farmers are empowered to participate in the agricultural economy.

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Digital Financial Services

The positive impact of digital financial services on the poor is well documented globally. These services provide efficient, cost effective and more accessible solutions to accessing formal financial services.

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Innovation

FMT leverages its expertise in financial and economic inclusion to define problem statements focused on the poor and surface and incubate African developed FinTechs within the SADC region.

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MSMEs

Through the MSME MAP (Making Access Possible) framework, an evidence-based strategy to support MSMEs is developed for different countries. The process identifies dominant sectors, sizes the value of the sector, assesses blockages to growth for the MSMEs in the sectors.

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Policy and Regulation

A well-developed policy and regulatory environment ensures the market operates efficiently and at scale, whilst also taking into account the needs of all of the stakeholders that participate in it – both consumers and providers.

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Women and Youth

Gender equality is fundamental to achieving economic growth and poverty reduction. FMT is committed to accelerating efforts towards the gender equality and empowerment of women.

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Data for financial markets

The FinScope Consumer Survey is uniquely aimed at increasing understanding of the informal financial product/service market.

Gathering data is the easy part, knowing what to do with it more complex. Our team of researchers, statisticians, and data scientist can analyse FinScope or Big Data to generate evidence and insights.

The proliferation of mobile devices has presented researchers with a golden opportunity to rethink the way data is collected.

The data portal hosts multiple public datatypes and analytical tools that allow stakeholders to compare indicators across countries and jurisdictions.

This geospatial offering supports the centering of financial infrastructure around consumers, as well as using location intelligence to inform key decision areas.