SMME Finance Scoping: Services and Light Manufacturing

The objectives of this study are to understand the SMME landscape in Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini and Malawi, and provide recommendations for a financial inclusion and growth strategy.

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

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

SADC Innovation and Investment Challenge Dealbook

Making impact through innovations in financial inclusion

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

SADC Innovation Challenge Lookbook

SADC Innovation Challenge objectives, competition timelines, the thematic challenges, the participant overview, and the in-country and regional winners.

Masterclass with Craig McLeod, Term Sheets, Dev Ops and Revenue Hacks - What 20 years of building products has taught Craig McLeod.

Masterclass with Tomi Davies, Building an investment worthy startup

African innovation refers to innovative technologies, start-ups, and programs developed by Africans for African needs and challenges – African Innovation Foundation

Summary Report: Innovation Ecosystem Scoping in the SADC Region

The SADC region is not trailing far behind in the use of technological innovation to foster growth, with a small but fast-growing tech-enabled community.

View winners and there pitches at the SADC Innovation and Investment Challenge Finale

SADC Innovation & 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.

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.

Four findings from Season 2 of the DataHack4FI Innovation Competition.

Below is an extract of our conversation, offering unique insight into a product impacting the lives of hundreds of thousands of migrants across South Africa:

What we’ve learned over three seasons of the DataHack4FI innovation competition and how the competition has evolved.

TheDataHack4FI, the largest Pan-African innovation competition, is an initiative within the i2i (insight2impact) program jointly hosted by FinMark Trust and Cenfri.

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

Hackathon: Innovations for Mobile Financial Services

The OneMoney Hackathon was held at the TelOne Centre for Learning from the 13th -15th July 2018

Hackathon: 2018 Lesotho SIMM Hackathon Report

In partnership with FinMark Trust, UNDP hosted a Hackathon as part of the Lesotho SIMM Project.

The current economic situation in South Africa presents a large number of people relying on the informal economy,

During the course of the Hackathon, the participants were exposed to a number of skills development sessions.

See highlights from the launch and day 1 of the first hackathon in Zimbabwe FinMark Trust has been a part of, the OneMoney Hackathon.

With more digital transactions being concluded, cash still dominates the scene.

Innovations and best practices in increasing access to agricultural

The study is the second phase of a three-year programme to increase access to and the uptake of rural and agricultural financial services in southern Africa