Market infrastructure
Programmes
Moving money and mindsets: increasing digital remittances across Africa
Biometrics in digital financial services: an overview
MFS Africa
MFS Africa is the largest mobile money hub in Africa, with over 170 million users connected, and growing. Remittances provide a financial safety net for vulnerable households across Africa by...
Insurance market development
A healthy insurance industry plays a pivotal role in supporting and sustaining inclusive economic growth. Insurance minimises the risks associated with economic activity and household...
Frontclear
FSD Africa has invested in the Frontier Clearing Fund (FCF) through a subordinated loan note and a grant to the technical assistance facility with the objective of improving interbank liquidity in...
Capital Markets Regulatory Support Programme
FSD Africa’s Regulatory Support Programme is a continent-wide initiative designed to support capital market regulators to attain international standards. The two-and-a-half-year programme...
The art of market facilitation: learning from the financial sector deepening network
The art of market facilitation: learning from the FSD network
When taking a market systems approach, development organisations such as those in the FSD network act as facilitators of market development—external change agents whose role is to develop actors...
Anti-money laundering, know your customer, and curbing the financing of terrorism
Onshore options for Africa-focused investment funds and vehicles
Next thought Monday: beyond ‘Africa rising’ – the emergence of the not-quite middle class
The past five years or so have seen a number of exuberant studies and predictions that Africa’s rapid growth was creating a new middle class. This new group of consumers, it was argued,...
