Herman Smit

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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.

Herman Smit

Herman is a Research Associate at Cenfri. Since joining Cenfri at the beginning of 2009, his research has focused on the broader area of financial inclusion and more specific areas of retail payments systems, Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) and microinsurance. His research work in Africa, Latin America and East Asia is predominantly focused on innovation in the delivery of financial services to low-income people. Before joining Cenfri, he lectured economics at London Varsity in Cape Town, South Africa. During his studies in the Netherlands, he also interned at PriceWaterHouse Coopers in Amsterdam.

Herman holds a Masters in Economics (Tilburg University, Netherlands), specialising in Competition and Regulation, BCom Honours in Econometrics and a Bachelors in Statistics (University of Pretoria, South Africa).

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