Watu Credit Limited
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Who is our customer
Watu Credit Limited is a customer-centric company that offers lease to own asset financing for motorcycles and three-wheelers that are used as taxis, creating an income generating business opportunity for mostly young male borrowers in rural areas across East Africa. Watu is a fast-growing FinTech company that lends primarily through mobile services and balanced with a high touch approach to monitoring to ensure borrowers are able to gain asset ownership. Its HQ is in Mombasa, Kenya with operations across Kenya and with a separate entity operating across Uganda.
What is our funding objective?
Contribute to the development and implementation of Watu’s client satisfaction baseline survey, which will help to better understand its social impact, areas of opportunity, and clients’ needs. Specifically, this will include assessing the demographic of Watu’s borrowers, change in income levels as a result of Watu’s financing and the availability / access to alternative financing. This information will enable Watu to better understand whether they are achieving their desired impact.
Why do we fund this investment?
This project represents an opportunity to better understand the market where Watu works and its clients’ needs, as well as will contribute to FMO’s understanding of the potential impact of FinTech companies more broadly. Additionally, it provides Watu with first hand feedback on their products and what to do to ensure they are achieving their desired impact and keeping clients satisfied and engaged.
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| Date | Total FMO financing |
|---|---|
| 12/9/2022 | USD 10.00 MLN |
- Website customer/investment
- https://watuafrica.com/
- Region
- Africa
- Country
- Kenya
- Sector
- Financial Institutions
- Publication date
- 12/22/2022
- Effective date
- 12/16/2022
- Total FMO financing
- EUR 0.03 MLN
- Funding
- MASSIF
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Risk categorization on environmental and social impacts, A = high risk, B+ = medium high risk, B = medium risk, C = low risk
Environmental & Social Category
(A, B+, B or C) - C