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Digital Finance in the field

  • A Strategic Approach for Next-Generation DFS Agent Networks
    01 Sep 2017

    • Jacqueline Jumah

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      Faculty Title: 
      Manager - Strategic Operations for Digital Finance at MicroSave
      Link: 
      https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jacqueline-jumah/3b/23a/b82
      Order: 
      7
      External Contributor: 
      Yes

    • William Nanjero

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      Faculty Title: 
      Principal Consultant - Digital Finance at MicroSave
      Link: 
      https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-nanjero-07a90a21?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=XURp&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CclickedEntityId%3A76906462%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH%2Cidx%3A1-1-1%2CtarId%3A1453813086215%2Ctas%3Awill
      Order: 
      5
      External Contributor: 
      Yes

    • Isaac Ondieki

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      Faculty Title: 
      Regional Managing Director Africa Nairobi, Kenya
      External Contributor: 
      Yes

    With special thanks and acknowledgement to Abhinav Sinha (EKO India), Tamara Cook (FSD Kenya), Kwame Oppong (CGAP), Paul Mbugua (Eclectics), Paul Musoke (FSD Africa), and Abigail Komu (Independent Consultant).

    Some people may argue that agent

  • More Than Hygiene – Improving Agent Network Performance to Maximise Profitability
    29 Aug 2017

    • Graham A.N Wright

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      Faculty Title: 
      Group Managing Director at MicroSave
      Link: 
      http://uk.linkedin.com/in/grahamanwright
      Order: 
      4
      External Contributor: 
      No

    • Vera Bersudskaya

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      Faculty Title: 
      Quantitative Research Manager
      Link: 
      https://ke.linkedin.com/in/verabersudskaya
      External Contributor: 
      Yes

    Over the last four years, as part of the Agent Network Accelerator (ANA

  • How Smart are Smartphone Lending Apps in Kenya?
    07 Jul 2017

    • Vera Bersudskaya

      Faculty Image: 
      Faculty Title: 
      Quantitative Research Manager
      Link: 
      https://ke.linkedin.com/in/verabersudskaya
      External Contributor: 
      Yes

    • Mercy Wachira

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      Faculty Title: 
      Analyst - Digital Financial Services
      External Contributor: 
      Yes

    The mobile digital credit revolution in Kenya has attracted many

  • Three Steps to Keeping Banks Agents Happy
    20 Apr 2017

    • Vera Bersudskaya

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      Faculty Title: 
      Quantitative Research Manager
      Link: 
      https://ke.linkedin.com/in/verabersudskaya
      External Contributor: 
      Yes

    Banks eyeing agency banking rollouts in Africa can learn from Kenya

  • Benchmarking Customer to Agent Ratios
    29 Mar 2017

    • Vera Bersudskaya

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      Faculty Title: 
      Quantitative Research Manager
      Link: 
      https://ke.linkedin.com/in/verabersudskaya
      External Contributor: 
      Yes

    DFS providers struggle with a variant on the chicken and egg problem: whether to recruit more agents or more customers? How to provide adequate access for customers while ensuring agents face sufficient

  • Targeting Agent Activity to Increase Returns
    06 Mar 2017

    • Vera Bersudskaya

      Faculty Image: 
      Faculty Title: 
      Quantitative Research Manager
      Link: 
      https://ke.linkedin.com/in/verabersudskaya
      External Contributor: 
      Yes

     

    The dormancy scourge

    Every year the

  • Getting It Right: Why Counting Mobile Money Agents Accurately Matters
    06 Mar 2017

    • Mike McCaffrey

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      Faculty Title: 
      Principal Consultant - Strategic Operations for Digital Finance
      Link: 
      https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikemccaffreysf?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=jvfs&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CclickedEntityId%3A2365126%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH%2Cidx%3A1-1-1%2CtarId%3A1462342526672%2Ctas%3AMike%20McCa
      External Contributor: 
      Yes

    • Vera Bersudskaya

      Faculty Image: 
      Faculty Title: 
      Quantitative Research Manager
      Link: 
      https://ke.linkedin.com/in/verabersudskaya
      External Contributor: 
      Yes

    Financial access is the foundation of financial inclusion.  A person cannot decide to use a financial service until it has been extended within their reach.  Central to measuring access to finance is the

  • Defining Terms and Options for Measuring Access to Digital Finance
    03 Mar 2017

    • Mike McCaffrey

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      Faculty Title: 
      Principal Consultant - Strategic Operations for Digital Finance
      Link: 
      https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikemccaffreysf?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=jvfs&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CclickedEntityId%3A2365126%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH%2Cidx%3A1-1-1%2CtarId%3A1462342526672%2Ctas%3AMike%20McCa
      External Contributor: 
      Yes

    • Vera Bersudskaya

      Faculty Image: 
      Faculty Title: 
      Quantitative Research Manager
      Link: 
      https://ke.linkedin.com/in/verabersudskaya
      External Contributor: 
      Yes

    The first blog in this series explained that currently,

  • Fighting DFS Fraud from Five Fronts
    14 Nov 2016

    • Vera Bersudskaya

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      Faculty Title: 
      Quantitative Research Manager
      Link: 
      https://ke.linkedin.com/in/verabersudskaya
      External Contributor: 
      Yes

    When it comes to fraud in digital financial services (DFS), stories from Uganda will surely arise: be it the infamous case of

  • Working Together To Fight DFS Fraud
    07 Nov 2016

    • Maha Khan

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      Faculty Title: 
      Senior Research Manager, Digital Financial Insights at MicroSave
      Link: 
      https://ke.linkedin.com/in/maha-khan-a32b9911
      External Contributor: 
      Yes

    • Vera Bersudskaya

      Faculty Image: 
      Faculty Title: 
      Quantitative Research Manager
      Link: 
      https://ke.linkedin.com/in/verabersudskaya
      External Contributor: 
      Yes

    Fraud is one of the major threats to the emergence and sustainability of the DFS ecosystem. Uganda’s DFS market has long been

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