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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

Genesis was commissioned by a global card association to conduct a market scan and opportunity assessment on a co-branded card offering in 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 Analytics’ Centre of Digital Excellence (C0DE) and Financial Services Strategy (FSS) teams partnered with CodeNgwana, an NGO initiative that provides foundational coding lessons to African children, to support its growth objectives over the next three years.

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 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 appointed by the IFC to run a diagnostic study on the state of access to finance in Ethiopia for women traders during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.

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, 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.

Genesis worked with the National Planning Commission, a nucleus government advisory agency, to assess state-owned enterprises' performance and contribution to achieving the National Development Plan’s Vision 2030 of economic transformation and inclusive growth.

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.

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).

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.

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 contracted to assist the Danish embassy and Danish Environmental Protection Agency to conduct an investigation into establishing a project support facility (PSF) focused on investment planning and feasibility, project contracting, delivery modalities, financing and procurement.

Genesis was contracted to undertake the final demand study for an inland storage distribution facility to serve the Manu River Union countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea as part of the due diligence required to finalise the financing arrangements for the facility in Liberia.

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.

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

Genesis was appointed by two of the world’s top fast-moving consumer goods brand to evaluate the economic pros and cons of a multi-billion-rand mega-transaction in the FMCG sector.

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

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. 

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.

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

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 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. 

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. 

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 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 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.

Genesis was commissioned by a global point-of-sale manufacturer to investigate market opportunities in eight sub-Saharan countries.

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 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.