Our
Experience
Where we come from
FiANACO's objective it to connect the dots between institutions and its clients trough new innovative models (Mobile Money, Agent Banking...)
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Contributing to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the United Nations, Digital Financial Services are incredible means to bring Financial Inclusion to the next level (this time, a digital one). Convinced that the development of developing countries is linked to their capacity to use (efficiently) new technology, we want to contribute to this new breath!
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FiANACO, from the Malagasy word Fiana - "new breath"- , has been launched in 2017
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Where we work
The majority of our projects are in Africa (in red on the map) even though we have also conducted other projects in Asia and in Latin America
Number of Projects managed by our Team with a budget >Eur 1.5 Million
Number of countries where our team worked on Digital Finance
Number of Projects led on Digital Finance by our Team
Simon Priollaud Co-Founder
Simon co-founded FiANACO in 2017 and dedicates his time on bringing (Digital) Financial Inclusion to the next level. Over the last 10 years Simon has supported more than 50 institutitons (Banks, MFIs, VSLAs, Mobile Money Solutions, Agent Banking solutions,governments...) in designing and implementing DFS Projects.
Simon is regularly giving lectures on Digital Finance at Telecom ParisTech.
Dominique Pinoche
Co-Founder
Dominique co-founded FiANACO in 2017. He has more than 25 years of experience in financial services. From the creation from scratch of an international bank to the management of institutions , he has brought his expertise to the Digital Finance area over the last eight years.
He implemented 3 large projects (budget > EUR 1M) on Digital Finance across Africa and Asia for international institutions (Gate Foundation, World Bank)
Katia Duhamel
Regulatory Expert
Katia is an Associated Consultant of FiANACO. She brings her 20years of experience in regulaiton applied to new technologies. Katia developed the Bird and Bird Paris Practice on Telecom in emerging countries until 2014. She now continues on supporting institutions and Governments on the digital development and
in particular Digital Financial Services.
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Our Team
What is different about us ?
Human size
We are a human-sized consulting firm. Our Consultants know each other, have worked together for more than eight years and have completed dozens of projects together.
Local Knowledge
We have a very good knowledge of the environment and local issues. We have also a pragmatic approach to co-design the best suited approaches (not only the fancy ones)
We are the ones
We are not interchangeable! The Consultants we staff on the project will be the ones who will implement the project.
Impact and Results
We are goal-oriented and open to contracts that only pay us once/if the results are achieved.
