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How financial institutions can deliver payment flexibility using lessons from PAYGo solar
How financial institutions can deliver payment flexibility using lessons from PAYGo solar
Lessons from the PAYGo sector for financial institutions
Jacob Winiecki
Feb 20, 2020
How to design PAYGo operational models to improve repayment
How to design PAYGo operational models to improve repayment
Demystifying customer loan repayment from an operational perspective
Jacob Winiecki
Jan 15, 2020
The power of flexibility: How innovative payment models can expand access to energy services
The power of flexibility: How innovative payment models can expand access to energy services
Under a PAYGo model, an off-grid and unbanked household or small business can acquire a high-value asset that provides life-changing energy
Jacob Winiecki
Nov 19, 2019
Keeping Machine Learning Honest!
Keeping Machine Learning Honest!
The Need for the Truthalizer
Ashirul Amin
Aug 23, 2019
The Best of Both Worlds: Decoupling Financing from Distribution through FSP-Led PAYGo
The Best of Both Worlds: Decoupling Financing from Distribution through FSP-Led PAYGo
Offering clients greater repayment flexibility by adapting a PAYGo model
Jacob Winiecki
Jul 29, 2019
Digital Platforms: Creating “Servant” Economies or a Step Toward Empowerment?
Digital Platforms: Creating “Servant” Economies or a Step Toward Empowerment?
Potential Benefits to “More than a Gig and Less than a Job” Employment in the Global South
David Porteous
Apr 1, 2019
Machine Learning in PAYGo: What You Need to Know Before You Jump In
Machine Learning in PAYGo: What You Need to Know Before You Jump In
Three concrete steps to help your PAYGo enterprise prepare to implement ML.
Jacob Winiecki
Mar 14, 2019
Work with What You’ve Got to Offer MSME Credit
Work with What You’ve Got to Offer MSME Credit
Three Reason for Banks to Use Supplier Data for Lending to Micro-retailers
Shirley Mburu
Mar 19, 2019
Promising AI Applications to Help Shopkeepers Manage Business
Promising AI Applications to Help Shopkeepers Manage Business
Four Lessons for Training Computer Vision to Support MSMEs
Javier Linares
Mar 18, 2019
What happens on Uber should stay on Uber
What happens on Uber should stay on Uber
Kenyan driver perspectives on the possibility of portable ratings
Julie Zollmann
Feb 13, 2019
How Small Merchants Use Social Media to Sell Online in Africa
How Small Merchants Use Social Media to Sell Online in Africa
Informal retailers are tapping WhatsApp, Instagram, and messaging apps for e-commerce
Anne Gachoka
Feb 6, 2019
Beyond Marketing: Generating Trust to Sell Online
Beyond Marketing: Generating Trust to Sell Online
Small merchants need create and maintain trust with customers to sell online, but they could use more help
Amolo Ng'weno
Jan 31, 2019
Serverless USSD with Africa’s Talking — Part 2
Serverless USSD with Africa’s Talking — Part 2
If you haven’t read part one, this article is a continuation and will build off the implementation we created in the previous guide. I…
Kevin Rejko
Dec 12, 2018
Serverless USSD with Africa’s Talking
Serverless USSD with Africa’s Talking
I have recently been using this amazing protocol called Unstructured Supplementary Services Data (USSD) that lets feature phones interact…
Kevin Rejko
Nov 11, 2018
Prosper: A Product Innovation to Link PAYGo Customers to MFIs
Prosper: A Product Innovation to Link PAYGo Customers to MFIs
A Conditional Rebate to Help Customers Light Up, Grow and Prosper
Daniel Waldron
Nov 12, 2018
Rethinking PAYGo Agents to Scale Businesses
Rethinking PAYGo Agents to Scale Businesses
How to Leverage Agents for Critical Customer Relationship Management
Jacob Winiecki
Nov 2, 2018
Kenyan Banks Feel the Pain — and Now Some Gains — From Digitization
Kenyan Banks Feel the Pain — and Now Some Gains — From Digitization
Central Bank of Kenya data shows growth in digital channels but lean gains by the Kenyan financial institutions from downsizing
Stanley Mutinda
Oct 29, 2018
Micro-consulting: Using WhatsApp Groups to Support Agents
Micro-consulting: Using WhatsApp Groups to Support Agents
Tips for Communicating with and Helping Agents Through a Messaging Service
Anne Gachoka
Oct 19, 2018
Who are the Small Merchants Who Make a Real Living Instead of Just Making Some Extra Money?
Who are the Small Merchants Who Make a Real Living Instead of Just Making Some Extra Money?
Certain Behaviors Can Help Providers Unmask a Business’ Readiness for Financing
Michelle Hassan
Oct 19, 2018
FIBR’s Next Generation of Linkages to Financial Services: Betting on PAYGo
FIBR’s Next Generation of Linkages to Financial Services: Betting on PAYGo
The Promise of Tangible, Flexible and Sustainable Services
Abi Steinberg
Oct 8, 2018
What if We Offered Business Support to Small Merchants Over WhatsApp?
What if We Offered Business Support to Small Merchants Over WhatsApp?
Micro-consulting to Provide MSMEs with Practical Advice
Rasima Swarup
Sep 27, 2018
Getting the Timing Right: The Life Cycle of a Small Shop in Africa
Getting the Timing Right: The Life Cycle of a Small Shop in Africa
MSMEs Have Different Financing Needs in Four Discrete Stages
Michelle Hassan
Sep 26, 2018
Making Business Work for Dukas
Making Business Work for Dukas
Understanding the Financial Health of Small Shops in Africa
Carmen Merab
Sep 26, 2018
Why MFIs will (Finally) Crack the Solar Market
Why MFIs will (Finally) Crack the Solar Market
We have long hoped that microfinance would hold the key to unlocking access to energy for low-income households. Until now, we have been…
Daniel Waldron
Sep 17, 2018
Can PAYGo Unlock Access to Clean Water?
Can PAYGo Unlock Access to Clean Water?
A Prepayment Model to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of Providing Water as Household-Level Service
Abi Steinberg
Aug 27, 2018
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