The Smart Campaign, part of Accion's Center for Financial Inclusion, is launching a Fintech Protects working group to "build industry...

https://www.fastcompany.com/40441141/refugee-camps-are-turning-into-permanent-cities-can-they-be-smart-cities Camps were meant to be...

Leveraging Data to Drive Rural Financial Access In partnership with Esoko, First Access will develop Africa’s first-of-its-kind rural...

A case study from the work of First Access with a financial institution in East Africa is profiled in this comprehensive handbook on data...

Our Co-founder and Chief Data Scientist Rohit Acharya helped the SME Finance Forum launch their new report "Alternative Data Transforming...

Doing business in Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa in particular, is not for the fainthearted. However, in this part of the world more than any...

The First Access platform enables financial institutions to configure and manage their own algorithms and include a variety of data...

Today, First Access is proud to launch a new logo that reflects our vision of turning data into financial opportunity for everyone....

“Big Data is opening doors for financial technology (fintech) firms and other non-microfinance organizations to enter the microfinance...

Great primer on the diverse fintech landscape. To ensure all countries see the benefits of global fintech innovation, governments should...

Startups are rushing to make use of these “alternative data”. One example is First Access, in Tanzania, which uses data such as mobile...

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Many in Silicon Valley aspire to build products and companies that have the potential to create positive change on a large scale. Often,...

Nearly four years ago, when Accion Venture Lab made its first investment, we set out to fill a seed-stage funding gap for innovative...

In the last few years the fintech sector in developed markets has gone through a phenomenal boom. Fintech is the intersection of...

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https://mastercardcenter.org/insights/increasing-financial-inclusion-mobile-phones/ Technology is allowing companies to leverage the...

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FINCA Microfinance Holding Company, an arm of US-based nonprofit microfinance network FINCA International, and First Access, a US-based...