This focus note describes the low-cost, practical methods that SatF and its partner FSPs have developed to make outreach to clients in underserved areas viable. These methods build on the increasing availability of satellite images and publicly available geo-tagged data, as well as the growing ease and affordability of collecting geo-coordinates.
This note summarises practices and lessons learned from the Savings at the Frontier (SatF) programme on providing funding and technical assistance to financial service providers (FSPs). Sat…
This paper provides an overview of how agents are an essential component of delivering customer value to excluded populations such as informal savers. Based on the experiences of financial ser…
A new case study report from Scale2Save looks at how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed bank customer behaviour in Africa. The study shows that customers have increased their borrowing from fr…