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Rony joseph Palathinkal, Dawood Ahmad, Sauradeep Bhattacharyya and others are enlisted in the challenge
Digital Financial Inclusion for Women’s Businesses in Pakistan
Digital Financial Inclusion for Women’s Businesses in Pakistan
Submit your solution for a chance to collaborate with financial institutions in Pakistan on advancing access to finance among women and women-owned businesses in the country.
Digital Financial Inclusion of Women’s Owned Businesses in Pakistan | Pitch Event
The Final event of the Challenge took place on March, 2023. All four finalists have 15 minutes to present their solutions and answer questions from the jury.
The selected team received funding of USD 50,000 to build a proof-of-concept of their selected solution together with ADB and the selected FI partner in Pakistan.Congratulations again to our selected team and all finalists!
CONGRATULATIONS ALSO TO OUR OTHER FINALISTS
Almond Fintech
USA, Singapore
Almond Fintech is a financial inclusion tech start-up providing innovative risk evaluation using psychometrics to increase access to microlending services. We launched in Pakistan in late 2022 and now aim to further refine our product for the market.
Team members
Adam Swartzbaugh
Tali Shalaby
Yunus Sevimli
Sana Kanwal
John Min
Tina Manalac
DASTAK
Pakistan
Dastak enables aggregation, contextualization and distribution of Alternate Data to improve credit access to women. This is an effective surrogate to conventional business documentation generally not available with women in Patriarchal societies.
Team members
GFI
Malaysia
An alternative credit scoring solution that provides equal opportunity for every person to be financially included without relying on any third-party data or background information that unfairly impacts the person’s creditworthiness.
Team members
Dr. Haniza Yon
Nur Ayu Johar
Mandy Kok
Dr Siti Muawanah
Dr. Rense Lange
Amrit Lakra
Jeff Liew
Nor Nadia