It’s an exciting month here at hiveonline as we prepare to start lending to our users! We are launching a pilot to enable lending to our first 1,000 myCoop.online users in Mozambique through our partner, Microbanco Confiança SA. At the same time, we have finalised our agreement with Kingdom Bank… Read More »Getting Ready for Lending in Kenya and Mozambique!
hiveonline has reached 50,000 smallholder farmers and savings group members across our platform! Over the past eight months, hiveonline’s dedicated field officers (FOs) have worked tirelessly to bring our digital tools to farmers. With a substantial presence in Kenya (40,000 farmers), Mozambique (10,000 farmers), and in our most recent project… Read More »hiveonline reaches 50,000 users!
Picture of App Secretary Abdulai Mariama entering transactions into hiveonline’s VSLA.online app during one of her savings group’s meetings. We are thrilled to continue advancing financial inclusion in Ghana thanks to our partnership with ACDI/VOCA under USAID’s Feed the Future Ghana Market Systems and Resilience (MSR) Activity. The MSR Activity… Read More »Expanding our Impact: 7500 Savings Group Members Join VSLA.online in Ghana
Hiveonline, CYNK, Flux and KenGrow are partnering to lead a year-long project to empower 2,000 women smallholder farmers in Kenya sustainably. This strategic collaboration is driven by clear objectives that promote financial inclusion, advance regenerative farming practices, and enhance women’s leadership in the agricultural sector. Hiveonline will spearhead financial inclusion… Read More »Empowering 2,000 Women Farmers: Hiveonline, CYNK, Flux and KenGrow Collaborate
After an intensive year, hiveonline has successfully completed the Mozambique Central Bank’s Regulatory Sandbox. This transformative initiative is driving accessibility to quality financial products and services for Mozambique’s smallholder farmers and agricultural workers, who make up 70% of the population, with 95% being smallholder farmers. This approval means that hiveonline… Read More »🎉A Momentous Day for hiveonline – Regulatory approval in Mozambique!
Smallholder farmers are essential actors in building climate change resilience. Adopting sustainable farming practices helps them adapt to climate challenges and contributes to global mitigation efforts by sequestering carbon and reducing emissions as a natural climate solution. Unfortunately, although smallholder farmers contribute to over one-third of the world’s food supply… Read More »Farming for Resilience: The Overlooked Potential of Smallholder Farmers in Combating Climate Change and Strengthening Food Security?
Today, we take a look at the shortcomings of existing financial services for supporting humanitarian and development programmes! GiveDirectly, a trusted cash aid distributor, found itself embroiled in a colossal fraud, losing USD 900,000 in a cash voucher distribution scheme (The New Humanitarian) meant for its beneficiaries in the Democratic Republic of… Read More »Let’s Talk about Securing CVA Distribution: The Case of Fraud in Cash Distribution in South Kivu, DRC
hiveonline is pleased to announce significant partnership milestones in its mission to drive financial inclusion and foster the growth of the digital economy in Mozambique and Kenya. Agreements with trading partners, financial services providers and the central bank signed recently set the foundations for hiveonline multi-service platform to offer market… Read More »Hiveonline ApS announces strategic partnerships across the public and private Agricultural Finance ecosystem to bring growth opportunities to smallholder farming communities
Hiveonline is delighted to announce its participation in the 4th edition of the Regulatory Sandbox run by the Central Bank of Mozambique. The announcement was made on Friday, 27th January 2023, by the Governor of the Central Bank, Rogério Zandamela. João Gaspar, the President of the Mozambican Fintech Association, and… Read More »Hiveonline Included in 4th Edition of the Regulatory Sandbox run by the Central Bank of Mozambique
Being a front-end developer at hiveonline comes with immense responsibility and flexibility. This ideally means choosing a working location sometimes, thinking about design decisions, more coding, more testing, and more documentation to be done. Ask your average person what they believe a developer or software Engineer does in a day,… Read More »A Day in the Life of a Front-End Developer at Hiveonline