Financial Products & Services
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Blog Post
Sharing the Risk: “Micro Equity” for Savings Groups in the Digital Era
By
Philip Acton,
November 21, 2022
Sharing the Risk: “Micro Equity” for Savings Groups in the Digital Era
This blog post explores Micro Equity – an investment product for savings groups designed and implemented by DreamStart Labs, a DSG technology vendor.
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Article
Reaching Informal Savings Groups with Formal Financial Products: A Study’s Unexpected Findings Reveal the Challenges of Digitizing Transactions
By Raksha Vasudevan
NextBillion
2022
Reaching Informal Savings Groups with Formal Financial Products: A Study’s Unexpected Findings Reveal the Challenges of Digitizing Transactions
This article discusses the main findings from a qualitative assessment of Savings at the Frontier (SatF) projects in Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia, implemented in 2015-2022 and funded by the Mastercard Foundation. The program sought to bridge the gap between formal financial services and informal savings groups, enabling members to access the financial services that best […]
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Blog Post
Top 10 Tips for Running a Great Digital Savings Group Pilot
By DreamStart Labs
May 22, 2022
Top 10 Tips for Running a Great Digital Savings Group Pilot
This article shares 10 tips from DreamStart Labs’ experience running many DSG pilots with partners around the world.
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Savings Groups’ Linkages Toolkit
By Hermann Messan et al.
United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
2020
Savings Groups’ Linkages Toolkit
This toolkit offers practical guidance to financial service providers (FSP) which are already providing or intend to provide formal financial services, including digital financial services (DFS), to savings groups. Insights and lessons offered in this toolkit are based on the experiences of six FSPs, which are UNCDF’s MicroLead partners in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, […]
