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Peris Mburu
FSD Africa

Peris Mburu is Assistant Director, Credit Policy, Regulation & Infrastructure at FSD Africa. She is a career banker who is passionate about MSMEs and women’s financial inclusion. Formerly a Director, Credit for Family Bank in Kenya, she joined FSD Africa five years ago and has since then managed multiple successful financial inclusion projects across the region. She holds a DBA in business from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa and an MBA from Kenyatta University Kenya. She possesses a higher diploma in credit analysis from Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland.

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January 13
2021

Peris Mburu

Ensuring That Women’s Financial Access Is Not Another Casualty of COVID-19: The Value of Agent Banking

As COVID-19 continues to ravage global economies, the existing gender-poverty gap is set to widen: UN Women projects that for every 100 men aged 25-34 in extreme poverty due to the pandemic, 118 women of the same age will be living in extreme poverty this year. Peris Mburu at FSD Africa explores why agent banking is a promising solution to this growing challenge – and how its benefits can extend beyond access to finance.

Categories
Coronavirus, Finance

Tags
COVID-19, financial inclusion

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Ensuring That Women’s Financial Access Is Not Another Casualty of COVID-19: The Value of Agent Banking

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Ensuring That Women’s Financial Access Is Not Another Casualty of COVID-19: The Value of Agent Banking

Peris Mburu
FSD Africa