High-Tech Credit Providers-A Competitor for Traditional MFI's?

Low-tech micro finance institutions(MFI's) can capture the base-of-pyramid(BoP) population effectively. Taking the client's need into consideration from a sympathetic mindset, traditional MFI's have proved that high-tech credit providers are their complements and not substitutes. High-tech services can serve a very low percentage of the targeted population because of its prerequisites of smart technological availability which is still a rarity. Small transactions can be met by the high-tech system, but for larger needs, clients prefer face-to-face interaction. Fintech in micro finance is not experimented and it must consider the basic criterion that has enabled the success of MFI's-provide credit responsibly and productively rather than a simple profit-generating motive. Read more at: https://cfi-blog.org/2017/05/11/fintech-in-microfinance-in-search-of-the-high-tech-high-touch-unicorn/#more-23611