MSC (MicroSave Consulting)
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Formerly | MicroSave |
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Consulting |
| Founded 📆 | 2006 |
| Founder 👔 | Graham A.N. Wright |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Lucknow, India Nairobi, Kenya |
Number of locations | 13 |
Area served 🗺️ | Worldwide |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 170 (2018) |
| 🌐 Website | https://www.microsave.net |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
MicroSave Consulting (MSC), formerly known as MicroSave, is a consulting firm. It works in the areas of financial, social, and economic inclusion. MSC builds partnerships with key players in the ecosystem of financial services.[1][2][3], with a focus on the world’s poor. The company's clients include governments, donors, private sector corporations, and local businesses. MSC has 11 offices around the globe and has worked on projects in 50 developing countries.
History
MSC began in 1998 as the MicroSave project[4][5][6], a nine-year project funded by Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Kenya. The project’s mission was to “strengthen the capacity of financial service providers to deliver market-led solutions” and to articulate the perspectives of low-income people in microfinance across East and southern Africa.
Until the year 2000, the MicroSave project focused on demand-side market research in East and southern Africa[7]. The project eventually expanded in Africa to cover multiple facets of financial inclusion, including research, consulting, and training. By 2003, the project evolved its research work to include both demand and supply sides.
In 2005, MicroSave entered the Indian geography[8][9]. Later in the year, in November 2005, a mid-term review of the project resulted in its transformation into a commercial service providing organization. In the next two years, it expanded operations to Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Nepal. The MicroSave project ended[10] and transformed into a full-fledged consulting company. The MicroSave Consulting Limited was legally established in 2007.
In the years to follow, MicroSave expanded its scope of work to include digital financial services, energy, housing, water, and sanitation, among others—all with a focus on low-income people. The organization continues its work across various thematic areas of inclusive and responsible financing—in the Pacific, in other South East Asian nations, and other geographies.
The organization updated its branding from MicroSave to MSC (MicroSave Consulting) in 2018[11].
Areas of work
MSC uses research and evaluation methods to offer consulting services in the areas of digital financial services, inclusive finance & banking, micro, small and medium enterprises, and private sector development. It helps governments and regulating bodies in drafting and modifying policies related to social, economic, and financial inclusion[12][13][14].
The organization provides advisory services and delivers on-site operational assistance in financial and social inclusion. In recent years, MSC has also focused on technology-led innovations and applied emerging technology platforms, such as Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.
Geographical spread
MSC has been active in more than 50 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It has offices in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Philippines, Senegal, Singapore, Vietnam, Uganda, and the United Kingdom[15].
Employees
Consultants in MSC come from a wide range of industries and sectors, such as digital financial services, banking & financial services, housing, livelihoods, agri-value chains and agri-finance, information technology, insurance, telecommunication, WASH finance, and media. MSC consultants work in women’s empowerment, financial inclusion, financial literacy, social inclusion, research, rural development, development finance, remittances, and payments, among other areas[16][17].
Consultants are involved in strategy development and governance, organizational strengthening and risk management, product and channel innovations, investment and donor services, research and evaluations, training, and dissemination[18]
- ↑ "MicroSave | Omidyar Network". www.omidyar.com. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ↑ "MicroSave". Mastercard Foundation. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ↑ "Moving the World Toward Meaningful Financial, Social and Economic Inclusion: Welcoming Our Newest Partner, MicroSave Consulting (MSC)". NextBillion. 2019-04-02. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ↑ "MicroSave | Rural Finance and Investment Learning Centre". www.ruralfinanceandinvestment.org. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ↑ "Savings as an Instrument for Poverty Reduction" (PDF). https://www.findevgateway.org/. 4 October 1999. Retrieved 15 October 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); External link in|website=(help) - ↑ "Microinsurance Network: MicroSave Africa Research Plan". Microinsurance Network. Retrieved 4 March 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Eldis". www.eldis.org. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ↑ "About MicroSave at Crunchbase". Retrieved 4 March 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "MICROSAVE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED - Company, directors and contact details | Zauba Corp". www.zaubacorp.com. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ↑ "Project Completion Report" (PDF). Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Member profile: MSC (MicroSave Consulting) | Microinsurance". microinsurancenetwork.org. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ↑ ANI (18 January 2018). "MicroSave signs SoI with NITI Aayog". Business Standard. Retrieved 4 March 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "About MicroSave". Digital Frontiers. Retrieved 4 March 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "MicroSave signs MoU with NPCI to boost digital payments". DATAQUEST. 2016-04-14. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ↑ "MicroSave Consulting | e-MFP". www.e-mfp.eu. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ↑ "MicroSave Consulting (MSC) | Devex". www.devex.com. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ↑ "MicroSave employee data at Apollo.io". apollo.io. Retrieved 4 March 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "DevelopmentAid". DevelopmentAid. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
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