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Mainstreaming diaspora for development with capacity building and expert deployment

Expert log-in

BIG Diaspora

Guinea

Africa-West

2020

In 2020, Coweb Digital Finance, a financial technology (‘fintech’) company in Guinea and the Islamic Bank of Guinea developed this digital platform to ‘solve the problems’ of the diaspora, including by enabling the opening of personal and business bank accounts in Guinean francs and euros, rapid bank transfers, creation of enterprises in Guinea, access to property investments, and the relocation of ‘high-potential’ Guineans abroad back to Guinea.