FSDA is currently building a permanent team for its Development Capital activities. While the team starts to take shape, there is an ongoing need to build pipeline, evaluate opportunities, structure investments and support deal negotiation. Consultants wishing to be...
FSD Africa wishes to pre-qualify consultants through an Expression of Interest (EOI) to undertake credit market research and/or develop opinion pieces based on existing research in the following priority areas: Critical constraints and enabling factors for increased...
Meeting the FSD Network… On 22 June 2017, I had the immense pleasure of meeting in Nairobi with the UK Aid-funded FSD Network CEOs from across sub-Saharan Africa and presenting some of latest enterprise finance trends emerging globally – in terms of new products,...
Central Bank Governor Dr Patrick Njoroge fielded some tough questions from the audience on 9th February 2017 at FSD Kenya’s annual financial inclusion lecture. British economist, Professor John Kay, had just delivered a provocative talk on the risks of financialization...
FSD Africa (“FSDA”) in partnership with FSD Tanzania (“FSDT”) and in collaboration with CGAP and the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance (“CAHF”) wishes to engage a consultant or consulting firm to conduct a Credit Markets Diagnostic in Tanzania in order to...
M-Shwari (meaning ‘calm’ in Kiswahili) is a combined savings and loans product launched through a collaboration between the Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) and Safaricom. The M-Shwari account is issued by CBA but must be linked to an M-Pesa mobile money account...
FSD Africa (“FSDA”) is looking to: 1) hire a project manager on a retained basis to assist in the implementation of its new Credit Market Development Programme; 2) build a panel of financial sector and credit market specialists whom it can call upon for advice and...
On 14 September 2016, the Banking Amendment Bill (2015) will come into force in Kenya. The stated rationale behind the amendment is to promote transparency and protect consumers in the country’s highly profitable, bank-dominated credit markets. It caps interest rates...
See you in court? Unlikely. In recent times most law courts in Africa have not been suitable places to enforce or defend low-value retail credit contracts – the transactions costs associated with the legal process swamp the value of most claims. Read more here
Goldilocks never took a bank loan, never had a credit card, and never got into debt. But if she had, her exposure to the fairy tale credit market would have been “just right.” She’s the lucky one. Across Africa, people living on the “cusp” of poverty –...
