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How MyBucks is increasing financial inclusion among Africa’s unbanked

There is a large unbanked population in Africa that does not use formal banks or semiformal microfinance institutions. This has provided an opportunity for MyBucks to step in and fill a void, helping provide banking services to 1.5 million previously unbanked clients in Africa.

Opportunity International and MyBucks: ‘A Powerful Partnership to Improve More Lives’

Editor’s note: The sale of microfinance institutions to fintech companies has broad potential repercussions for both clients and the microfinance sector’s overall development. Because opinions differ on whether this impact will be positive or negative, NextBillion is running multiple, comprehensive posts on the topic.

Combining Capitalism And Charity: MyBucks Spreads Financial Services Across Africa

PRETORIA—South Africans’ hopes and dreams are well represented by the grand statue of Nelson Mandela which dominates the park below the Union Buildings, the seat of government. In a world where revolution so often is accompanied by repression and violence, as in Egypt and Syria, respectively, Mandela set aside decades of unjust imprisonment to lead his nation out of Apartheid’s horrid historical cul-de-sac.

MyBucks uses cloud, AI to reach Africa

MyBucks, the German listed FinTech company that holds three brands GetBucks, GetSure and GetBanked, says its partnership with non-governmental organisation Opportunity International continues to take strides forward in their vision of bringing financial inclusion to the unbanked and underbanked in emerging markets – most specifically in Africa.

MyBucks and Opportunity International Partner To Drive Financial Inclusion for 460 Million Unbanked Citizens of Africa

CHICAGO AND LUXEMBOURG CITY – November 19, 2015 – Opportunity, Inc., a next generation microfinance organization that invests philanthropic and social impact capital to spark and scale innovative solutions to global poverty, has entered into a share purchase agreement to sell six banks serving sub-Saharan Africa to the MyBucks Group, a Luxembourg-based financial technology (fintech) company which holds the three brands GetBucks, GetSure and GetBanked. Opportunity International will be a minority shareholder in MyBucks and retain at least one board seat at the parent level and one on the board of each bank.

MyBucks Expands Reach of Opportunity Banks in Africa

Chicago/Luxembourg, 12 October 2016 – As part of its partnership with Opportunity International, MyBucks S.A. (“MyBucks”), a leading fintech company, announced today that it has officially concluded a relationship and Trademark License Agreement with Opportunity International, a global nonprofit organization, in countries where MyBucks has acquired the Opportunity bank’s operations. The Agreement provides MyBucks with the exclusive right to use the Opportunity Bank trademark across Africa.

MyBucks: fintech and financial inclusion

MyBucks founded in 2011, is a Luxembourg-based fintech company primarily engaged in the consumer lending sector. Through its brands GetBucks, GetBanked and GetSure the company offers unsecured consumer loans, banking solutions as well as insurance products to customers.

Interview: MyBucks leads the fintech charge, says bank’s ceo

Dave Van Niekerk is the founder and CEO of fintech company MyBucks, and has a self-declared passion – delivering cost-effective financial services to what might be considered the bottom of the pyramid. “I cut my teeth in the microfinance and consumer credit industry in South Africa with African Bank, in the late 90s” he recalls. African Bank had identified a lower income percentile of the population, offering financial services that the dominant South African banks – Standard, Absa, Nedbank, and FNB – had complacently neglected.

MyBucks founder on recovering from past failures and getting back in the financial services game

South African Dave van Niekerk is the man behind the pan-African fintech company MyBucks. The Frankfurt-listed business leverages technology to provide financial products and services to the low and middle-income customer segment, predominantly in high-growth emerging markets. To date the company has provided loans to over 800,000 customers in 12 African markets, and has also expanded to Spain, Poland and (most recently) Australia.

FinTech is consumer-driven revolution, says GetBucks CEO Dave van Niekerk

“There is a lot of hype around FinTech at the moment, where everyone thinks that it is the be all and end all of financial services. I see it as more of a consumer-driven revolution. People are looking for more convenient and cost-effective ways to transact and do business.” That is the view of Dave van Niekerk, CEO of FinTech company GetBucks and micro-finance entrepreneur. He will elaborate on his vision during our FinTech Africa event in Cape Town on 20 October. For CFO.co.za we spoke exclusively to him about doing business in Africa, the future of FinTech and the outstanding entrepreneurial talent in South Africa.