We were at Nexus2050 in Luxembourg from 25th – 26th June! Day one was exciting as we discovered many initiatives that build a conducive environment for small and big players to come together around AI, impact, and “innovating with the human – or the heart – at the centre”. We witnessed HRH the Crown Prince of the Duchy of Luxembourg have an interesting conversation with @Sophia,
Amarante wins an award from FAO for the best innovation in agricultural financing in Africa at the SAM (African Microfinance Week) organized by ADA.
The SAM is the largest microfinance event in Africa, and this year welcomed over 1,000 participants. The Amarante team took part alongside Lohft to support a dozen start-ups taking part in the Catapult program, and also with our partner OPEN SI to showcase the Agrikalpay solution at the SAM Innovators’
The Global Impact FinTech Forum (GIFT) has been a valued partner of the Anguilla FinTech and Compliance Conference for the past three years. We have been able to tap into the knowledge and experience of its membership for various topics.
This time around, the GIFT panel will take us into the future of FinTech to a place where global standards exist for the crypto space.
Amarante Consulting has partnered to boost Inclusivity’s AI/ML-based omni-channel platform focused on sustainable inclusion. This technology has supported, among other cases, the digitization of an indigenous community in the Amazon, automated credit processes for MFIs in LAC, and provided training in a Kenyan refugee camp. It has also deployed assistive robots to support and train 200,000 migrants, especially women, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico,
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Résumé du projet Agriwallet – Filière ananas
Avril 2023
L’Agence belge de développement (Enabel) au Bénin, au travers de son programme “Développement de l’Entreprenariat dans la Filière Ananas (DEFIA)”, ambitionne de positionner l’usage des outils numériques au sein de la filière ananas au Bénin.
Le consortium composé par Amarante Consulting et OPEN SI a été choisi pour conduire le projet de mise en place d’un porte-monnaie électronique pour les clusters de la filière ananas,
Intensive research conducted by AFI to develop a comprehensive understanding of the structural challenges women-led micro, small, and medium enterprises (WMSMEs) are facing across -its network, in particular in the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) region. Amarante LAC appreciated for its contribution in providing valuable insights to the report. The AFI report supported by our team of consultants involved in the assignment focuses on the challenges faced by women-led micro,
Amarante Consulting wins an award from Virtual Internship for being the “MOST ENGAGED HOST COMPANY”. We are proud to be one of the six selected for 2022’s Host Company Awards. We topped the rating charts for our engagement and especially for being always cooperative and supportive throughout the year! We thank Virtual Internships for bringing us such bright and energetic interns.
As part of the implementation of an electronic wallet (Agriwallet) for the pineapple value chain actors, Amarante (TA partner) and Open SI (the solution provider) designed a business model to ensure the product’s economic viability and business relevance: Pascal, global Director and Fabrice, Senior Consultant together with our partner firm OpenSI, organized a series of workshops with pineapple cooperatives and clusters during the last week of June to explain the business model to be implemented,
Amarante Managing Director, Sahana Arun Kumar Kumar led a week long module on how to “Manage the Human Dimension of Change” to focus on the essential elements of driving change and gaining staff buy-in when asked to adopt innovative technologies to communicate with customers, grant loans and generate other products and services in the digital age. Amarante also congratulated all Boulder Institute of Microfinance participants who took their “Digital Transformation of Microfinance Institutions (Dt-Mfi)”
Considering the potential of technological innovations, the Central Bank of Madagascar (“BFM”) has identified the development of Fintech as a priority to promote financial services in Madagascar. The field is vast and requires specific technical skills, so BFM has requested technical assistance from the World Bank to meet this challenge, particularly in the establishment of an appropriate legal and regulatory framework. In this context, The World Bank Group mandated Amarante Consulting to conduct a landscape study to: