2022 Annual Report

In 2022, FinMark Trust continued to make progress in our efforts to improve the lives of the poor by prioritising inclusive growth and the development of sustainable livelihoods. Read more in our 2022 annual report.

Past and present leaders of FinMark Trust discuss our beginnings, our impact and our plans to continue encouraging financial markets to work for the poor.

To celebrate this milestone in our own development – and for the development of the financial inclusion landscape over the past 20 years, we will be hosting a series of webinars.

Throughout this year, we will be documenting our journey to date – and making this public for others to learn from.

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

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.

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.

We investigate the prospect of new financial inclusion indicators for policymakers, through transactional data analysis.

The Shoprite cross-border money remittance product reached the R1 billion mark in January 2019

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

The first in-country launch of DataHack 4 Financial Inclusion Season 2 takes place in Ghana, November 2017

The importance of data for closing the financial inclusion gender gap

Exploring the factors that drive usage to better understand how the gap can be bridged.

Patience, a restaurant owner in Goma in the eastern DRC, has a dream of owning her own land.

They say that “if you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together.”

You manage what you measure and thus it is important to have a measurement framework that drives the right behaviour.