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Tag Archives: ADC
Flash from the Past: business case of digital financial services
Whow, I remember the times so clearly before having been hijacked by the European Investment Bank. I was an independent consultant hired by one of the consultancies contracted by the IFC to develop the business case on digital financial services (DFS) with 5 … Continue reading
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Indian Agent Networks – or how to open 10million accounts in a week
The Helix Institute launched another of their Agent Network Accelerator Surveys. This time on India. For those who do not know them yet, The Helix Institute of Digital Finance, was founded in November 2013 as a partnership between MicroSave, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, … Continue reading
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Banking agents in Peru…
CGAP recently launched a CGAP brief “Driving Scale and Density of Agent Networks in Perú” based on a CGAP-led research on 26,000 banking agents and 24 million monthly transactions to describe the relationship among factors that will help these agent networks to … Continue reading
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Agent management – how to set up the channel
I know… I know… it took me longer than planned. But here it is: The continuation of my previous blog “Microfinance Institutions and Alternative Delivery Channels (ADCs)” which was based on the presentation by Mark Flaming and Joseck Mudiri “Microfinance … Continue reading
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Microfinance Institutions and Alternative Delivery Channels (ADCs)?!
Is this a question or a statement? There are quite some unanswered questions about microfinance institutions developing alternative delivery channels, such as agent or ATM networks or other mobile financial services. Do microfinance institutions have sufficient institutional capacity, sufficient resources … Continue reading