Genesis was tasked with conducting a commercial due diligence of Tyme Bank in order to advise Apis on the feasibility of acquiring the bank.

Genesis was commissioned by one of Africa's larger retail banks to identify opportunities for partnerships with fintechs across the continent. 

Genesis worked closely with a leading retail bank to explore the evolving payments landscape in Africa to identify strategic and investment priorities for a leading regional bank. 

FinMark Trust (FMT) commissioned Genesis to carry out a scoping exercise to understand the size, state and dynamics of informal cross-border trade between South Africa and Mozambique, and Eswatini and Zimbabwe.

A Pan-African bank commissioned Genesis to assess the revenue potential of the purchase of digital payment provider, with the intention of streamlining crossborder remittance payments both across its own customer base and for non-customers.

Genesis was commissioned to conduct a market sizing of the gig economy in Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia to review the challenges faced by gig workers in these three markets and to propose recommendations on financial products to target this segment.

Genesis was commissioned by the Ministry of Finance in Sierra Leone to assist in the design and implementation of rural payments connectivity solutions in conjunction with the deployment of a retail payments switch.

Genesis was contracted by FinMark Trust and the Insights 2 Impact (i2i) Facility to conduct an innovation scoping study for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region to identify the drivers of innovation ecosystem development and opportunities to enhance the innovation ecosystem in the SADC.

Genesis Analytics was commissioned by a global card association to conduct a mobile-wallet partnership opportunity assessment across five countries, Ghana, Senegal, Madagascar, Cote d’Ivoire and Mauritius. This entailed assessing and mapping the payment landscape in each country and identifying key payment opportunities in the mobile money, card and digital payments space.

Genesis Analytics and Orange Business Services (OBS), with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, published a research report on Cloud Banking in Africa: The Regulatory Opportunity, which explores the potential for cloud computing to reduce the cost of technology for banks.

A large Saudi Arabian mortgage financing company commissioned Genesis to help enhance its customer value proposition (CVP) in an innovative, digitally driven approach to issuing mortgage loans to borrowers.

Bankserv commissioned Genesis to assess the future of South African payment rails (i.e. payment platforms or networks) to better cater to the evolving payments landscape.

Genesis partnered with Mercy Corps Youth Impact Labs (YIL) Kenya to undertake a study that unpacks the potential that the gig economy has in solving Kenya’s unemployment challenge.

To enable the growth of the fintech sector while minimising risk and protecting consumers, the National Treasury, in partnership with The World Bank Group, commissioned Genesis to conduct the first full market diagnostic and sizing of the local fintech sector.

Genesis drafted the post-workshop report of the second workshop of the IFWG (Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group), which is made up of the representatives from the South African Reserve Bank, Financial Sector Conduct Authority, National Treasury, Financial Intelligence Centre and the South African Revenue Service.

Due to innovation and competition increasing, a global payment service provider wanted to better understand the market to engage new partners and increase their market share. This required a strategy and go-to-market approach across the various acquiring channels.

The National Treasury, in partnership with the World Bank, commissioned Genesis to conduct the first full market diagnostic and sizing of the local fintech sector in South Africa.

Genesis Analytics have been working with Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Trusts on a number of projects. FDS commissioned Genesis first to re-invigorate their approach to facilitating financial-sector deepening in Uganda. We then helped FSDU develop a refreshed strategy for the next three years and then assisted them with a critical part of strategy execution related to fundraising.

A large South African retail bank commissioned Genesis to redefine their growth strategy for transactional products - focusing on how to grow transactional revenue.

Genesis Analytics was contracted to conduct an evaluation of the Mass Market Financial Inclusion (MMFI) project, which aims to provide access to key financial services for the unbanked populations of Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Madagascar.

Genesis engaged with a large South African bank to create and maintain a market insights capability that would enable it to develop internal points of view on developments in the payments sector, allowing the bank to respond with appropriate short-term and medium-term strategies.

Genesis partnered with FSD Kenya to develop a business case to convince 30 Kenyan banks of the value of joining PesaLink, a payment infrastructure that allows banks to offer real-time, person-to-person transfers at a low cost.

Genesis partnered with the Centre of Excellence in Financial Services to understand which policy and regulatory approaches best suit the South African financial sector in managing the balancing act of preserving the country's sound financial system, while enabling fintech innovation that promotes improved access to finance and growth in the sector.

South Africa has a high proportion of banked adults but cash still accounts for over 50% of the total value of all consumer transactions. Genesis partnered with MasterCard to quantify the true cost of this reliance on cash for consumers in South Africa.

Genesis partnered South Africa’s domestic payment switch, BankservAfrica (Bankserv) to determine how to continue providing card-switching services to the South African market.

Genesis Analytics was commissioned by a large international card scheme to analyse and develop a strategy to position the scheme in the South African digital payments market.

Genesis was commissioned to study impediments to more effective competition in mobile money markets in four markets – India, Bangladesh, Kenya and Nigeria.

Genesis partnered with a JSE-listed South African financial services provider to develop a business case for specialist banking services to the business and personal market, including private banking.

Genesis was commissioned to complete a comprehensive market sizing of the digital banking platforms in South Africa. This involved a market view and a detailed competitor sizing for online channels.

A large Pan-African bank commissioned Genesis to conduct an analysis of the mobile-banking market in South Africa and to craft initiatives to drive rapid mobile adoption, allowing it to achieve aggressive targets set by the executive.

Genesis was commissioned by a large provider of online retailing and services to examine the regulatory regime of Nigeria, with respect to the launch of an e-wallet for customer payments and the launch of a peer-to-peer lending service.

Genesis partnered with an existing specialist bank in South Africa to design a cashless operating model for their proposed retail operations with all the convenience of digital channels.

Genesis was commissioned by one of the largest mobile network operators (MNOs) in Africa to establish the size of the market for local and cross-border money transfers in 16 countries throughout Africa, the Middle East and South America, including Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon.