After advising a private equity fund on the acquisition of a proptech SaaS player in South Africa, Genesis was retained to develop a five-year strategic roadmap to guide this business investor. A key aspect of the work was to ensure that management and the new equity partners were aligned going forward.

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.

The Trade and Development Bank (TDB) contracted Genesis, for a consecutive year, to draft its Annual Sustainability and Development Impact Report for the 2022 year.

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.

Genesis was commissioned by KfW, the German Development Bank, to conduct a gender diagnostic of women SMEs’ access to finance in Côte d’Ivoire.

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.

The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) commissioned Genesis to conduct a qualitative assessment with the aim of gathering empirical evidence to support the potential benefits of incorporating a choice-based model into the G2P (government to persons) payment system.

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.

Genesis Analytics was commissioned by a leading payment processor to write a concept paper that presented the consensus of the payments industry around the role and pricing of card payments in light of the introduction of emerging payment types such as instant payments.

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 engaged by Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR) to undertake an end of project evaluation of Accelerating growth of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) through expanding the e-commerce sector in Rwanda (or iHuzo).

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 commissioned by Bio2Watt Energy Holdings, a producer of renewable energy sourced from organic waste, to provide consulting services to guide the firm’s strategy for the next five years.

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.

A pan-African trust fund contracted Genesis to investigate ways of facilitating the flow of capital to women-led enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa through a recently launched $200-million gender lens investment fund.

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.

Genesis was commissioned to undertake a training needs assessment for MSMEs engaged in digital cross-border trade. The study spanned five COMESA member states (Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia) and was aimed at boosting the use of digital financial services for cross-border payments in the region.

A collections business focused on South Africa turned to Genesis when it needed to understand the market opportunity.

Financial Sector Deepening Africa contracted Genesis Analytics to help co-create and implement proportional and fit-for-purpose environmental, social and governance (ESG) supervisory approaches and interventions in the insurance sectors in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria

Genesis was commissioned by the South African Reserve Bank to conduct a 12-hour capacity-building course about climate change including the challenges and opportunities it poses for the financial and banking sector.

Genesis provided skill-share services to develop the capacity of the Bank of Thailand and enable it to develop and publish policy guidelines for financial institutions on climate stress testing by 2022.

Genesis conducted the final evaluation of the Savings at the Frontier (SatF) Programme, a $17.6-million partnership between Oxford Policy Management and the Mastercard Foundation.

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 commissioned by Ethos Private Equity to conduct a commercial due diligence on Crossfin Technology Holdings, a South African fintech platform with assets in payments, digital lending and venture capital.

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

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

Absa Bank appointed Genesis to assist the bank in anticipating the potential impacts of land reform in South Africa and develop a strategic response.

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

Genesis was commissioned by a global financial services company to conduct research on how to encourage the uptake of QR payments by micro merchants in South Africa, on behalf of a payment solutions provider aiming to enter this space.

Following a successful strategic plan that Genesis developed for the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC), the government’s development financial institution re-engaged Genesis to help with the implementation of its new business model.

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.

Genesis was commissioned by a global card association to conduct a market scan and opportunity assessment on a co-branded card offering in Zimbabwe.

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 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.

Financial Sector Deepening Uganda (FSDU) commissioned a Genesis study of the climate change adaptation ecosystem in Uganda. The FSDU’s aim was to better understand the climate finance gap in Uganda and help smallholder farmers build their resilience to climate change by improving their access to climate and green finance.

Genesis was commissioned to conduct an impact assessment of the Park Road Affordable Housing Project, which was a pilot intervention of the Kenyan government’s MSME access to market programme. 

The African Development Bank commissioned Genesis Analytics to conduct a baseline study on the status of access to finance for women SMEs in 16 sampled countries across Africa to understand unique market constraints they face.

Genesis Analytics was commissioned by a prominent bank to advise on the various scenarios of land reform in South Africa; help the bank assess the impact of these scenarios and guide the bank’s strategic position.

Central banks across the world are rethinking approaches to financial and payments system infrastructure. New technologies such as distributed ledgers are revolutionising the way customers, businesses and financial intermediaries interact.

Genesis and its partner Bourse Consult were commissioned by Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Africa to support the Central Bank of Congo (BCC) in DRC to understand the demand for an opportunity to establish a private securities market in the country.

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

Genesis was commissioned by the IFC to assess the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sectors and research the specific financial needs of MSMEs in three West African countries.

Genesis was commissioned by the IFC to undertake several deep-dive studies on MSME finance that were used to inform the IFC’s advisory to its (financial institution) clients to improve financial access for SMEs.

Genesis was commissioned by a private equity investor to conduct a strategic due diligence for a South African digital bank ahead of a potential investment. 

Genesis Analytics was commissioned by a national payment switch to determine a strategy for its card-switching business considering the increased competitive pressure faced from international card schemes.

Genesis was asked to develop a model to size the revenue pools of the retail and business banking segments of the Botswana banking sector by a pan-African bank.

Genesis was commissioned by a global development financial institution (DFI) to undertake an impact due diligence on prospective financial institution (FI) investment in Egypt.

Genesis undertook a diagnostic study to inform discussions and policy adjustments to advance access to finance for women cross-border traders and the identification of firm-level barriers that limit their bankability.

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 to support FinSights Lab, an innovation initiative enabling solutions for financial services institutions to enhance financial inclusion, in supporting a large Tanzanian bank to develop new products and services for the mass market.

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

The Solidarity Fund was set up in March 2020 to fund a range of initiatives that addressed the Covid-19 crisis in South Africa. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) funded Genesis Analytics to provide extensive and wide-ranging technical support for the fund to ensure that the investments made by the fund had the greatest possible impact.

Standard Chartered Bank partnered with Genesis as impact advisors to develop a next generation approach to impact measurement and reporting. This new approach was rolled out in a case study on lending to the manufacturing and infrastructure sectors in Ghana.

Genesis was appointed by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) to provide an expert economic report and testimony in the JSE’s acquisition of share registry business Link Market Services South Africa (Link SA).

Genesis Analytics was commissioned to deliver additional headline earnings to a financial institution over a period of three years. The team has implemented two projects to achieve this target.

Genesis is providing technical support to Uganda's Presidential Taskforce on the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) to formulate a national 4IR strategy to guide the country on areas where 4IR technology can be domesticated to achieve development objectives.

Genesis conducted a macroeconomic, financial sector policy and regulatory review to identify areas where EFInA could invest to catalyse financial inclusion in Nigeria.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) commissioned Genesis to do market-wide research on the MSME finance market and landscape in six African countries to ground its investment and advisory support to financial sectors.

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 contracted by the Kenya Commercial Bank to undertake an impact evaluation of MobiGrow, a product that targets agricultural value chain actors to offer mobile-based financial inclusion and information to smallholder farmers and pastoralists in Kenya and Rwanda.

Genesis was appointed by AccessHolding to conduct a mid-term evaluation of the Access2Acces programme to understand its performance and outcomes till the mid-point of the programme, in order to document key learnings arising from implementation, and to identify areas for improvement.

Genesis, in partnership with FinMark Trust, was commissioned to carrying out an evidence-based diagnostic study of the MSME of Malawi to identify key barriers and opportunities in the market.

A public-private convening body asked Genesis for advisory work to support Presidential decision-making in South Africa on how to unlock the economy responsibly – which parts, which sectors, how to balance lives with livelihoods?

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 appointed to conduct a strategic and forward-looking mid-term evaluation of the Partnership for Finance in a Digital Africa (FiDA), hosted by Caribou Digital, which is the learning partner to the Mastercard Foundation’s Next Generation Financial Services (NGFS) portfolio.

A large financial institution approached the Applied Behavioural Economics (ABE) team to increase the response rates for one of its financial services campaigns. Behavioural economics principles were successfully applied to optimise various existing customer communication channels throughout the personal loan take-up/uptake journey.

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).

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 was retained to provide an independent expert assessment of the proposed acquisitions and disposals between two financial services firms.

Genesis Analytics completed a major review of the African Development Bank’s support strategies for small- and medium-sized businesses. This was the first project to leverage our new Francophone and African Development Bank liaison office.

Based on a series of exceptionally successful projects with a major financial services provider over the past five years, the Applied Behavioural Economics (ABE) team has been working closely with stakeholders to continue achieving this success on a larger scale by establishing and guiding an internal behavioural economics capability.

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.

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 generated a report and a go-to-market strategy for an international card association was looking to enter the affluent card market in a number of African countries.

Faced with the rise of mobile money, a large international card scheme approached Genesis Analytics to develop tailored strategies to grow card use in five key African countries: Angola, Mauritius, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Genesis was jointly retained by ENSafrica and Webber Wentzel to provide an expert economic assessment of the competitive effects on a merger between two large credit bureaux, Experian and Compuscan.

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.

Land reform is the most pressing and emotional political issue in South Africa. Genesis Analytics was approached by a banking client to design a solution to support rural land reform and to transform the farming sector. The purpose of the fund was to support the transformation of sustainable large-scale commercial agricultural businesses owned by black South Africans.

Land reform is the most pressing and emotional political issue in South Africa. Genesis Analytics was approached by a banking client to design a solution to support urban land reform and the transformation of urban housing markets.

Land reform is the most pressing social and political issue in South Africa. Genesis was approached by a Big Four bank to formulate its official position on land reform, especially on the question of land expropriation without compensation.

The Applied Behavioural Economics team was commissioned to improve the conversion rates and the premiums collected for an asset manager’s retirement-product campaigns. The campaigns sought to migrate customers from old-generation products to new ones, while also increasing monthly premium contributions.

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.

Genesis was contracted to conduct a mid-term evaluation of Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P), the largest of the UNCDF’s programmes in digital finance. The evaluation was based on a theory-based approach and used the OECD DAC criteria as its guiding framework.

Genesis was commissioned to build a fully integrated stress testing and forecasting model for a major bank in Malawi.

Genesis performed a detailed risk analysis on internal processes, policies, documentation and reporting relevant to the treasury operations of a major East African multinational development finance institution (DFI).

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.

Genesis partnered with a private foundation to diagnose the MSME landscape in four countries to understand the key growth constraints and programming opportunities for MSME development.

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 worked to establish an internal behavioural economics capability for a major financial service provider.

Genesis Analytics was commissioned to determine whether a pivotal new product would function by using a robust behavioural experiment. The experimental approach was key because focus groups and surveys could not adequately capture the experience of using the client’s product.

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 Analytics was contracted by the Banking Association South Africa (BASA) to conduct a retrospective evaluation of the StarSaver™ programme that allows volunteers from participating banks and financial institutions to deliver hour-long lessons on savings to learners up to grade seven. 

Genesis designed a full social, economic and environmental (SEE) framework for one of the biggest pan-African banking groups to measure the positive and negative SEE impact of the bank on financial returns.

Genesis and The Springfield Centre were contracted by Mercy Corps and the MasterCard Foundation to conduct the mid-term evaluation of AgriFin Accelerate (AFA), a six-year, USD 24.7-million programme in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.

Genesis partnered with the prominent private foundation to diagnose the MSME landscape in four countries of interest. The foundation was new to the area of MSME development and required guidance on how best to diagnose the key growth constraints and programming opportunities for MSME development.

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.

The Shared Value practice was approached by a UK investment bank for public policy advice relating to the international purchase of call-centre business in South Africa.

Over the course of three months, we showcased the value of behavioural economics in a large South African bank resulting in a campaign performance improvement ranging between 31% and 100%.

With a focus on retention, Genesis worked with a large international investment company to decrease outflows across the disinvestment value chain using the principles of behavioural economics. 

Based on a series of successful projects, over the course of 2017, Genesis Analytics worked with a large, long-term client to help establish an internal behavioural economics capability. 

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 was approached by MMI Holdings, a large financial conglomerate, to research and design a group stakeholder engagement strategy.

Genesis was contracted to conduct a mid-term evaluation of the Financial Inclusion for Smallholder Farmers in Africa Project, which is aimed at improving food security and incomes of over 700 000 smallholder farmers in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania. 

Genesis has been contracted for four years to Responsible Finance Through Local Leadership and Learning as their learning partner to spearhead the development and implementation of a solid strategy to extract and disseminate learnings from their activities both nationally and regionally. 

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 conducted research and prepared a paper that synthesised which financial technology solutions existed for women and their impact on women’s economic empowerment.

Genesis Analytics showcased the value in using behavioural economics with insights from data science to increase short-term insurance sales. The outcome was an increase in sales of between 89% and 100%.

The Applied Behavioural Economics team was asked to assist a client in managing difficult conversations

A long-term client approached the Applied Behavioural Economics team at Genesis-Analytics to help promote uptake of its debt-management proposition, resulting in a 14-fold improvement in sales.

Genesis Analytics worked with a global insurance provider’s outbound call centre to encourage more South Africans to save adequately for retirement by avoiding early withdrawals.

A large South African retail financial services provider retained Genesis Analytics to assist with meeting its branch foot traffic and sales objectives by using behavioural insights.

The Applied Behavioural Economics team assisted an international merchant bank in building a rigorous, research-supported, behavioural change framework for increasing bank card use as a payment instrument among South African consumers. 

Genesis was commissioned to build a fully functional internal behavioural economics capability in a large European bank.

A large global insurer commissioned the Applied Behavioural Economics team to redesign its client-facing documents, resulting in better customer decision-making and large increases in retention rates.

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 Analytics assisted in the development and assessment of a new, face-to-face, system-driven, financial advice process that involved real-time information updating on customers. This involved a rigorous behavioural approach to testing and analysing the impact on market perceptions.

Genesis was commissioned by an international private equity investor to conduct the commercial due diligence of an early-stage Ethiopian technology service provider.

Genesis was requested by the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) to assess the impact of introducing competition in the cash equites market in South Africa. In particular, over the past two years, the FSCA licensed four new trading platforms that are starting to compete against the well-entrenched JSE.

Genesis was commissioned by an international aid agency to define the scope for the design of a new Regional Financial Integration (RFI) programme aimed at improving financial integration within SADC.

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 with the FinMark Trust to verify what impact SADC's electronic cross-border payment system (called SIRESS) was having on the cost and efficiency of cross-border payments, and to understand why banks were not making greater use of it.

Genesis partnered with a prominent private foundation in the financial inclusion community to identify what the foundation had learned from its work in expanding access to formal financial services across the continent. This review took place against a broader strategic shift towards youth employment creation as a primary objective for many donors. 

Genesis was asked by Barclays Africa to design and present a series of training and strategic workshops for the top 100 leaders in the bank. This was part of changing the strategic direction of one of the largest companies in Africa, with more than 40,000 staff.

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 partnered a prominent private foundation in the financial inclusion community to identify what it had learnt in expanding access to formal financial services across the continent.

Genesis Analytics evaluated the Microfinance Challenge Fund Rwanda and found that the Rwandan microfinance industry still needs support.

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 provided commercial due diligence services to global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group on its investment into Global Credit Ratings (GCR), which serves 400 customers in 20 African countries.

Genesis was contracted by Enterprise Partners, through DAI-Europe, to develop a financial education strategy and implementation plan for Ethiopia.

Genesis Analytics was asked to review the risk management operations of a financial institution in Botswana and to develop a risk management framework.

The Financial Sector Deepening Trust (FSD) Kenya commissioned Genesis to carry out an in-depth analysis on how and to what extent MSMEs had been impacted by the significant developments in the country's financial sector since 2005.

Genesis has been evaluating the FSB’s consumer education department’s (CED’s) project portfolio since 2015 and has also become the FSB’s learning partner in the financial capabilities space.

Genesis was contracted by Compuscan to provide monitoring and evaluation support to the Ground Up, a  rural and agricultural finance credit bureau and identification system in Uganda.

Genesis is conducting an impact evaluation of Building Assets, Unlocking Access, a programme by Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), in collaboration with local financial service providers (FSPs) in Kenya and Uganda. 

Genesis was asked to develop a learning agenda for the FSB’s consumer-education project portfolio. This includes specific learning questions that are answered through various research methods, drawing on the monitoring and evaluation of the FSB’s current and future projects, as well as additional research gathered from financial-service providers, policy-makers and researchers. 

FSDA contracted Genesis to conduct an assessment of their nine monitoring and results measurement systems and to develop bespoke training sessions to build its capacity.

Genesis was contracted to do an impact evaluation of CARE Canada’s Promoting Opportunities for Women’s Economic Empowerment in Rural Africa (POWER Africa) initiative in Rwanda. Funded by the MasterCard Foundation, POWER aims to improve financial inclusion in Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia and Rwanda by linking village loan and savings associations with formal financial institutions. 

Genesis was contracted to do the final evaluation of Banking on Change, a partnership between Barclays, CARE International UK and Plan UK aimed at extending savings-led financial services to vulnerable individuals. 

Genesis was appointed the learning partner for the ASISA Foundation, which was established by the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA) to implement consumer financial education initiatives on behalf of the industry.

FSD Kenya commissioned Genesis to study current and future effects of sharing information on credit in Kenya.

Genesis Analytics was commissioned by a European private equity fund to conduct a strategic due diligence of a Ghanaian bank looking to become more retail focused.

Genesis assessed investment opportunities in the banking sectors of four Sub-Saharan African countries for a private equity investor. The countries were Zimbabwe, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon and Senegal.

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. 

A Ghanaian bank employed Genesis to manage a project to improve various business functions in its inclusive banking unit to ensure that funding from the Foundation for Sustainable Development in Africa (FSDA) was effectively used.

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). 

Genesis Analytics was commissioned by a large Pan-African bank operating in Namibia to assist in the development of its new student, young professional and staff value propositions.

Genesis Analytics was commissioned by a large bank in Malawi to conduct a market analysis in order to understand the bottom-of-the-pyramid (BOP) banking landscape better. 

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.  

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 Analytics was retained by a Pan-African bank operating in Namibia to align its strategy and strategic execution plans across its business units and management teams.

Genesis Analytics was commissioned to conduct a risk assessment of the alternative distribution channel (ADC) strategy of four different financial institutions in Kenya, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Tanzania. In each instance, the project team developed a risk assessment framework and identified the kind of project risks that the institutions had experienced.  

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.

Genesis was appointed to support a large private foundation in developing the capacity of African partners to serve its charitable objectives of providing education and alleviating poverty. 

Genesis was appointed by FSD Africa to conduct research on the remaining opportunities for development finance in Sub-Saharan Africa.

A consortium of Genesis and the International Capital Corporation (Mozambique) was awarded the contract to design an access-to-finance programme in Mozambique. This was to be based on the model of the Financial Sector Deepening Trusts that DFID has established in various African countries including Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

Genesis was commissioned to undertake a review of the Africa strategy for a large non-profit organisation focused on improving access to finance across the world. Its activities include direct investments in microfinance institutions and related technology providers as well as investments in capacity-building services for the industry and clients at the bottom of the pyramid.

Genesis was commissioned by the MasterCard Foundation to conduct an end-term evaluation of the Financial Services for Rural Communities and Smallholder Farmers in Africa programme that has been run for five years. 

Genesis was hired by a large insurance and investment company to develop a strategy and client value proposition for trade unions.

Genesis was hired by one of the big four banks in South Africa to conduct the design of a R300m charitable foundation.

Genesis Analytics was commissioned by a private equity fund to conduct a strategic due diligence on a Ghanaian bank looking to transform into a more retail focused bank. 

Genesis developed a monitoring and evaluation framework for Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Kenya.

Genesis was hired by the Financial Services Board to conduct the monitoring and Evaluation of the Financial Services Board's consumer education 2015.

Genesis was hired by Compuscan CRB Ltd to provide ongoing monitoring and evaluation support during the establishment of a rural and agricultural finance credit bureau (called Ground Up) and identification system in Uganda. 

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

Genesis was commissioned by a large South African insurer to provide the business with a review of the unfolding Twin Peaks model of financial regulation, as well as of resulting changes to the country’s overall regulatory architecture.

Genesis was commissioned by the National Treasury to conduct a technical review of the effectiveness of the SRO (self-regulatory organisation) model in South African financial markets in the context of the move toward a Twin Peaks regulatory framework.

Genesis was appointed by the Namibia Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority (NAMFISA) to review options for an optimum interest rate regime for microlenders and moneylenders.

Genesis was engaged by a pan-African banking group to review its sustainability strategy and align it to shared-value principles.

Genesis was commissioned by a large African securities exchange to describe how the country's current system of exchange controls affected the choices and constraints driving the decisions of market participants and issuers.

Genesis was engaged to provide technical advisory services to a bank in Ghana under the IFC's Africa Micro Small Medium Enterprise finance programme (AMSME). 

Genesis was retained by a large Pan-African bank operating in Namibia to create alignment across business units, and management around its strategy and strategic execution plans. 

Genesis was commissioned by a large Tanzanian financial institution to conduct a market opportunity analysis and strategic review of its business with a view to defining its medium-term strategy through to 2020. 

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.

Genesis was contracted to take stock of Access to Finance Rwanda's progress in achieving its goal and conduct a value for money (vfM) assessment of AFR’s investments in 2015. Following this work, Genesis was contracted to review their MRM system. After the review, AFR retained Genesis in 2016 to streamline its MRM component and facilitate the effective communication of its results internally and externally.

Genesis was contracted by the MasterCard Foundation to conduct a final evaluation of the YouthSave initiative. YouthSave was one of the first long-term programmes that had been funded by the foundation. 

The South African National Payments System is the backbone of the South African economy. Genesis was asked by the Association of System Operators (ASO) to address a number of key competition issues in terms of the reconsideration of conditions imposed by the Competition Commission in two mergers in the South African National Payment System. 

Genesis was commissioned by a large African bank to perform a Global Investment Portfolio Standards (GIPS) assessment and implementation for the bank’s private clients. Phase 1 focused on providing guidance on GIPS requirements and performing a gap analysis. Phase 2 focused on the Implementation of solutions to become GIPS compliant.

Genesis developed an indicative cost of regulation model for the South African banking sector to demonstrate how the bank regulations created a regulatory cost across specific products for the Banking Association South Africa (BASA).

Genesis was commissioned by a tier-2 South African bank to review its current risk management processes and perform a gap analysis against best practices. The review covered ALM/Market risk, liquidity and credit risk.

The Financial Services Board (FSB) appointed Genesis Analytics, working in conjunction with Bourse Consult, to validate its assessment of the Safex Clearing Company (Pty) Ltd (SAFCOM, now JSE Clear). This was conducted in terms of the CPSS-IOSCO Principles for Financial Markets Infrastructures (PFMIs).

Genesis was commissioned by DFID and the Ugandan financial services inclusion programme to conduct a review of the progress made within the microfinance industry in Uganda, consider the emerging trends in the sector as well as to provide a look into the future and recommend new strategies for increasing the level of financial inclusion. 

Genesis was commissioned by a large cash-in-transit company to conduct an end-to-end analysis of the ATM industry and the factors shaping it, with the view to quantify the consolidation opportunity and industry cost savings. 

Genesis was commissioned by the Zimbabwe Agricultural Development Trust (ZADT) to develop and pilot financial products suitable for direct access by smallholder farmers. Small-scale farming is the backbone of the rural livelihoods in Zimbabwe but the farmers often struggle to access finance for agricultural production, locking them into low input- low output production models

Genesis was contracted to do a detailed analysis of all risk management and internal processes, policies, documentation and reporting relevant to the Treasury operations of a development finance institution in Kenya.

Genesis was asked by a major private-equity firm to conduct a strategic due diligence of a South African debt-management company. It was interested in understanding the potential for growth and the regulatory trends in the debt-management industry. 

Genesis assisted with the co-ordination and production of the stress-testing submission of a big four South African bank to the Bank of England.

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 approached Genesis to conduct a market-sizing exercise for vehicle asset finance (VAF) across its operations in 10 countries encompassing personal, business and commercial vehicles.

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. 

One of the largest insurance and investment groups in Africa wanted to engage with the trade unions to improve stakeholder relations and to unlock new business opportunities.

Genesis was hired by a large insurance and investment company to prepare a strategy of engagement with trade unions.

Genesis was contracted by a large financial services provider in South Africa to provide strategic input to its consumer education programme and to conduct the monitoring and evaluation for the programme.

Genesis was retained by an international private equity firm to conduct commercial due diligence of a South African data-marketing services business. The aim of the project was to determine whether the business would be a viable investment for a larger financial services entity.

An established private-equity investor asked Genesis to assess the strategies of two major South African credit services businesses – a credit bureau and a leading data-marketing services provider – as part of its buy-and-build investment into the industry. 

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 global point-of-sale manufacturer to investigate market opportunities in eight sub-Saharan countries.

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 was asked to assist a tier-two bank in Ghana with its capital-raising strategy. Our work involved completing a demand-side analysis to identify potential investors and compiling a detailed pitchbook which covered the macroeconomic aspects of the Ghanaian economy. 

Genesis was asked by an international private equity firm to analyse the business model of a South African-based ATM deployment company in order to determine its growth potential.

Genesis, in association with Delsus Limited (UK), was contracted by the International Finance Corporation to support the mainstream uptake of sustainable investment practices in South Africa as part of the Sustainable Returns for Pensions and Society project.

A pan-African banking group asked Genesis to prepare a response to political proposals calling for the nationalisation of the banking sector.

Genesis was engaged by a large financial services firm to advise on the policy direction of micro-economic policy and financial regulation.

Facing public pressure on its role in society, the JSE commissioned Genesis to conduct a socio-economic impact assessment of the exchange's role in the South African economy.

Genesis was appointed by the IFC to conduct an end-of-programme evaluation of the Efficient Securities Markets Institutional Development (ESMID) programme, a joint IFC and World Bank programme.

Genesis was commissioned by a tier-1 South African bank to develop an engagement strategy for cash and retail aggregators. 

Genesis was retained by the United Nations Capital Development Fund (Asia Headquarters) to advice on the design of Trust Funds and Apex Institutions in the ASEAN region.

Genesis was commissioned to understand the role of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria, and make recommendations to improve credit access of MSMEs in the future.

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 to provide expert economic advice and analysis in a pivotal transaction between the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the primary capital market in South Africa, and the Bond Exchange of South Africa (BESA).

Genesis was retained to assist AON, one of the world’s top corporate brokers, in its acquisition of Glenrand, one of South Africa's largest brokers. At the time of the merger, both parties were operating as brokers in the short-term insurance industry in South Africa. 

Genesis provided expert economic analysis in the approved purchase of bank card and SIM card manufacturer, Namitech, by the world's largest chip maker for smartcards and SIM cards, Gemalto. This seemingly concentrated market demanded careful economic analysis of tender behaviour, potential entry and countervailing power in order to reveal the lack of competitive concerns.

Genesis was retained by the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India after it was was accused by another exchange of predatory pricing in the currency derivatives market through its transaction fee waivers on exchange-traded currency futures.

In a merger between two of the largest long-term insurers in South Africa, Metropolitan and Momentum, Genesis provided economic assistance to the merging parties. The deal was ultimately approved with employment conditions.

Genesis was appointed by HDFC, a major residential mortgage lender in India, to assist in assessing the competitive impact of the use of pre-payment charges by residential mortgage lenders in India.

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.

Genesis was retained by the legal team acting on behalf of Standard Bank in its acquisition of eCentric Switch to assist in responding to competition concerns raised by the Competition Commission. 

Genesis was asked to advise the Government Employees' Pension Fund, the largest investor in Africa, on the establishment of a developmental investment strategy. With $66 billion under management, the GEPF is one of the biggest pension funds in the world and the largest single investor in Africa.

Genesis was commissioned to provide expert economic assistance and strategic advice to Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank, on all competition issues related to a landmark market inquiry in the banking sector. 

Genesis was retained to provide expert economic analysis of the proposed merger between two large investment houses, Remgro and Venfin. This involved a wide range of products and markets, including radio broadcasting, content production and advertising.

Genesis Analytics partnered the IFC on its Nigeria MSME programme to help a large commercial bank develop an MSME strategy. 

Genesis was commissioned to provide expert assistance in assessing the competitive impact of a potentially large transaction in the short-term insurance industry. 

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.