Remittances Market Assessment 2021 - Pocket guide

This pocket guide highlights key findings from the market assessment of remittance flows into and out of South Africa using SARB data and a mystery shopping exercise looking at the costs of remitting via various channels, from South Africa.

Remittances Market Assessment 2021

FinMark Trust conducted a market assessment of remittance flows into and out of South Africa using SARB data and a mystery shopping exercise looking at the costs of remitting via various channels, from South Africa to other countries in the SADC.

Digitisation of Financial Products for Cross-Border Traders

Informal cross border trade is important to the food security, supply of basic medical goods, as well as the livelihoods of millions. Find out more about the key corridors between SA and 5 key countries.

Access to basic services Botswana

This scoping study has been conducted to identify the barriers and opportunities to enable affordable digital delivery and access to basic services in Botswana.

Access to basic services Malawi

This scoping study has been conducted to identify the barriers and opportunities to enable affordable digital delivery and access to basic services in Malawi.

Access to basic services Eswatini

This scoping study has been conducted to identify the barriers and opportunities to enable affordable digital delivery and access to basic services in Eswatini.

Access to basic services Madagascar

This scoping study has been conducted to identify the barriers and opportunities to enable affordable digital delivery and access to basic services in Madagascar.

Access to basic services Lesotho

This scoping study has been conducted to identify the barriers and opportunities to enable affordable digital delivery and access to basic services in Lesotho.

View the webinar on the research findings - cross border remittances from South Africa to the rest of SADC here

SADC Innovation and Investment Challenge

This report focuses on how FinMark Trust support in innovation that drives impact and enables marginalised communities to work towards sustainable livelihoods through financial inclusion.

As industries affected by physical-distancing COVID-19 measures race to reconfigure value chains, could platform business models hold the key to accelerated digitisation?

Four findings from the DataHack4FI Innovation Competition.

A measurement framework for digital financial services with a focus on digital payments.

In mid-July, FinMark Trust and Bankable Frontiers Associate (BFA) set off to Malawi to conduct a feasibility study of the potential of a digital financial identity

Malawi Digital Financial ID Feasibility Assessment

The feasibility assessment aimed to provide recommendations on the use cases of domestic financial inclusion the digital financial ID

SADC Mobile Money Guidelines

The aim of the project is to develop Mobile Money guidelines to assist SADC Member States with principles to facilitate the harmonisation

Cross-Border Remittances 2016

This report provides an update on the available money transfer offerings that facilitate remittance flows from South Africa to other countries in SADC.