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The Human Touch Required to Evolve Digital Finance

Service Offerings at Agents are Static & Rudimentary Across East Africa The Helix Institute’s research (2013) is showing that even after seven years of market development in Kenya, six years in Tanzania and five in Uganda, agents are still providing the same very rudimentary services that they did from the beginning.  The graph below shows that just about all […]

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Insurance for Contractual Workers of Micro and Small Enterprises in India – A Conscience Call

In terms of access to formal risk protection measures, contractual workers employed at MSEs in India this note creates background for the next note of this series.

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Disruption is simmering in Kenya

Thin SIM is evolving digital finance market of Kenya. M-PESA, the most successful mobile money offering, has started to feel it too. This blog brings forth the emerging scenario.

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Draft branchless banking regulations in Indonesia – A review

This note provides an analysis of the draft regulations of branchless banking based on MicroSave’s experience of working in Indonesia and other geographies.

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Communication – The Achilles heel of direct benefit transfers – Part II

MicroSave strongly believes that an integrated communication approach should be the starting point of large Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) programmes. Here, the MicroSave team present a case for beneficiary centric communication.

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How to make financial education better… maybe

Is financial education or financial literacy a branding problem? Here the authors suggest some alternative ways to make FE more meaningful and useful for end clients.