How investors respond during this pandemic will determine the extent to which MFIs are able to respond to the needs of their customers.

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A number of people who were earlier used to paying their utility bills in cash may have shifted to the digital channels during the lockdown, they added.

The government is providing direct cash assistance to 5 million Corona-affected families.

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The SG$6 million ($3.44 million) grant can be used by local fintech companies to cover their daily working capital expenses and finance new product development work with financial institutions.

Online payments have been slow to take off in the Philippines, where cash has long been king.

Smallholder farmers have long been feeding this Southern African nation by producing the bulk of the country's maize staple, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.

The donation was a part of a local initiative in which FINCA employees contributed a day’s worth of salary towards COVID-19 relief in appreciation of the country’s need in this time of crisis.