Genesis was commissioned by the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) to conduct an analysis focusing on strategic planning for the anticipated entry of foreign banks into the Ethiopian market and the impact of digital transition in banking.

Genesis was commissioned by the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) to develop a national roadmap for the digitalisation of savings and credit groups there.

South Africa’s leading Collective Investment Schemes provider commissioned Genesis to assess the impact of the possible changes in the taxation of CIS unit trusts.

Mastercard commissioned Genesis to conduct a landscape analysis of Nigeria’s payments acquiring sector that provides insight for market participants.

Genesis was commissioned by a company in Malawi to provide a high-level overview of the feasibility of setting up a Shariah-compliant bank in the country.

NMB, Tanzania’s largest commercial bank by assets, commissioned Genesis to carry out a feasibility study for regional expansion within the larger East and Southern African region.

How will Africa fare in the next 10 years and beyond? To tackle this question, Genesis was commissioned to write a research paper on what future growth scenarios could look like for the continent over the next decade. The work was background research for the African Development Bank’s strategy for 2023 to 2032.

A network of trusts working to deepen financial inclusion across a multitude of African countries commissioned Genesis to conduct an evaluation of potential funding partners.

A challenger bank commissioned Genesis to review and tighten the organisation’s retail strategy to align opportunities with available resources.

Genesis was commissioned by the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) to develop a five-year strategy for its fully owned subsidiary, the Trade and Development Fund (TDF).

Genesis was asked to develop a payments strategy for a consumer finance company in Mauritius. The assignment was guided by the client's goal of becoming a major payments player in the Mauritian market.

Genesis partnered with a Mauritian bank aiming to use its strengths, and the country’s position as an international financial centre, to provide a variety of solutions for the continent’s financial institutions, corporates and affluent customers.

Genesis was engaged by a Tier-1 bank in Tanzania to develop its five-year strategy (for the period 2023 to 2027) and review its operating model.

Genesis was retained by a pan-African insurance company operating in Kenya to conduct a competitor and market intelligence exercise. This engagement followed on from a strategy refresh exercise that Genesis facilitated for the same company a year earlier.

Microsoft Africa Development Centre wanted to understand how best to respond to the problems faced by Africa by building innovative solutions on the Microsoft platform.

The International Finance Corporation contracted Genesis Analytics to conduct a baseline assessment of the adoption of ESG policies and practices in Jordan at the firm, market and regulatory levels. 

Genesis was engaged by a large Pan-African Bank to undertake an analysis of the non-financial needs of MSMEs in three African markets.

Genesis was engaged by a leading pan-African insurance company operating in Kenya to update its strategic plan for the period ending 2025.

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. 

Genesis partnered with an international DFI to conduct a commercial due diligence of Adumo, a prominent South African independent payments company, with a possible view towards an equity investment in another, similar business.

In a bid to understand the factors that constrain MSME finance in Uganda, the IFC commissioned Genesis to do a study of the general MSME landscape in the country, encompassing an analysis of the demand and supply-side of the MSME finance market.

Genesis conducted a case study of an innovative, digital South African challenger bank with a group of development organisations seeking to drive financial inclusion.

the National Treasury of Kenya commissioned Genesis to develop the inaugural 2020-2024 strategic plan for the Kenya Mortgage Refinance Company, which was established as a non-deposit-taking financial institution to provide long-term funds to primary mortgage lenders.

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 and Bourse Consult jointly partnered with FSD Africa to develop a 10-year capital markets development master plan for Zambia.

Genesis Analytics, through the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), advised the Solidarity Fund on if, and how, it could support a sustainable food production intervention that addressed the persistent experience of hunger by the most vulnerable households in South Africa (which has been aggravated by Covid-19).

Genesis was commissioned by the African Development Bank to design its private sector development strategy for 2020 to 2025.

Genesis partnered with an international donor organisation to compare the operational processes of a group of agri-SME lenders to identify ways of serving the agricultural value chain more effectively.

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.

Genesis was engaged by the Financial Sector Deepening Trust (FSD) Kenya, on behalf of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), to perform a market analysis of the payments landscape in Kenya, and thereafter develop a 10-year vision and five-year strategy for the National Payment System (NPS).

Genesis Analytics and Bourse Consult were jointly contracted to develop a five-year strategic plan for the Capital Markets Authority of Kenya that would enable the regulator to support economic development and empowerment.

Genesis was appointed by the dti (on behalf of Parliament) to undertake an independent socio-economic impact assessment of the National Credit Amendment Bill 2018, a separate debt review regulatory regime and process for a defined lower-income segment, called debt intervention.

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 was appointed by a large multinational bank to develop a business strategy for the domestic wholesale payments business unit that would leverage the bank’s strategic investment in a modern payments architecture.

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.

Genesis helped fill an information gap for an international private equity firm when it conducted a commercial due diligence assessment of a third-party payment processor (TPPP) in South Africa whose main business was processing insurance-premium payments. 

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.

Genesis was commissioned by a Nigerian bank to conduct a channel optimisation study, which involved an analysis of 65 million transactions across the bank’s customer base. This took into account global trends in channel usage, cost and best-practice channel optimisation, and considered the relevance of these international trends within the context of the Nigerian market. 

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 partnered with a large Ugandan bank to provide strategic and technical guidance following the bank’s acquisition of one of its local competitors.

Botswana's Investment and Trade Centre has adopted a roadmap detailing the steps the country would need to take to develop an international finance centre that could match Africa's leader, Mauritius. 

Genesis was commissioned by a Ghanaian finance house to develop a financial model that could be used to inform its transition from a non-bank financial institution into a full-service bank, while remaining aligned with its strategic objectives. 

Genesis was approached by a growing Southern African micro-finance institution (MFI) to develop an Africa-wide business case for the transformation of the institution into a micro-finance bank (MFB). 

Following on a previous project to develop medium-term strategy for a major Pan-African financial services institution based in Botswana, Genesis was recommissioned to evaluate the bank’s progress and develop a strategy to take it through to 2020.  

A top-tier South African bank, under increasing cost pressure, needed to relook at the costs of its shared services and allocation methodology. The Genesis team developed a revised cost recovery model that the bank will be implementing in the new financial year.

Our assignment was to assist a leading Ghanaian bank's Financial Inclusion Unit (FIU) to deliver on its overarching goal of having five million active accounts by 2018, and to identify ‘capability’ gaps that could potentially be supported by FSD Africa. The analysis involved a market opportunity analysis and internal capability assessment.

Genesis was commissioned by a Ghanaian financial institution to conduct an opportunity analysis of the Ghanaian financial sector to advise it on the viability of becoming a universal bank in the market.

Genesis was contracted as an external adviser in the merger process between one of the largest local banks in Ghana and an SME finance provider.

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.

The Market Regulation Division of the JSE appointed Genesis Analytics to develop a cost-allocation model that defines its cost of regulating each of the JSE's markets. 

Genesis was appointed by a large South African financial services and insurance provider to review the feasibility of an innovative, vertically integrated business model connecting an independent distribution network to a large investment product range and manufacturing capability.

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 partnered with a large Nigerian bank entering microfinance to refine its strategy and equip it with the capabilities and information required to successfully operate in that sector.