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Cenfri is interested in all areas of the financial sector relevant to low-income households. Currently our areas of research include: micro-insurance, health insurance, AML/CFT, new technology in distribution and remittances:

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Bankable Frontier Associates

Cenfri seeks to build a network of partner institutions and experts to support our research and objectives. One such partner is Bankable Frontier Associates.

David Porteous, the founder and managing director of Bankable Frontier Associates, is a research fellow and member of Cenfri.

About Cenfri

The Centre for Financial Regulation and Inclusion (Cenfri) is a non-profit think tank based in Cape Town and operates in collaboration with universities in the region. Cenfri's mission is to support financial sector development and financial inclusion through facilitating better regulation and market provision of financial services. We do this by conducting research, providing advice and developing capacity building programmes for regulators, market players and other parties operating in the low-income market.

Our focus areas currently are microinsurance, health financing and insurance, AML/CFT, retail payment systems and money transfers. Cenfri is a non-profit (Section 21) company registered in South Africa and was established with support from the FinMark Trust.

Our directors are:

Doubell Chamberlain (MD, Cenfri)
Anja Smith (Director, Cenfri)
Anne-Marie Chidzero (Chair, independent)
Frik Landman (non-executive, CEO USB Ed)
Craig Churchill (non-executive, ILO)
Maya Makanjee (CEO, FinMark Trust)
Dr John Steytler (Chief Economist, Bank Windhoek)

For more information you can download our profile (Cenfri profile, PDF, 0.5Mb) or contact us.