Featured Courses
Chartered Digital
Finance Practitioner
CDFP Certification
A 3-year journey of carefully selected courses, providing professionals with a solid foundation in Digital Financial Services.
Duration – 3 years
Start date – Enrol anytime
Leading Digital Money Markets: A Global Tour
Certified by DFI
A 12-week course providing a global tour of noteworthy experiences on digital money systems currently in use.
Duration – 12 weeks
Start date – 18th February 2019
Bitcoin:
Back to the Future
Certified by DFI
An introduction to the emerging world of distributed ledgers and internet-based value exchange systems.
Duration – 4 weeks
Start date – 25th February 2019
Remittances in the Digital Age
Certified by DFI
A comprehensive perspective on how the remittance industry has developed and evolved and how it operates today.
Duration – 4 weeks
Start date – 17th September 2018
Digital Humanitarian Cash
Certified by DFI
A general introduction to the use of digital payments in humanitarian aid – focusing on the mechanics of digital aid.
Duration – 5 weeks
Start date – 11th February 2019
Operationalizing Mobile Money
Certified by DFI
The 5-week Operationalising Money Market course takes a closer look at all the aspects needed to build your mobile money business.
Duration – 5 weeks
Start date – 17th September 2018
Consumer Protection as a Business Strategy
Certified by DFI
An introduction into consumer protection in digital financial services and its key implementation challenges.
Duration – 4 weeks
Start date – 24th September 2018
Digitizing the Last Mile in Smallholder Agriculture
Certified by DFI
This course explores the range of digital tools being deployed to smallholder farms and others in the agricultural value chain.
Duration – 4 weeks
Start date – 5th November 2018
Blind Spots: Gender and Digital Financial Services
Certified by DFI
This course explores the barriers between DFS and certain populations, particularly women, focusing on industry blind spots.
Duration – 4 weeks
Start date – 15th October 2018
AML-CFT:
Regulation & Compliance
Certified by DFI
An introduction to money laundering, terror financing and proliferation financing and the tools to combat them.
Duration – 4 weeks
Start date – 8th October 2018
Certificate in Digital Identity
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Certified by DFI
An introduction to digital ID, covering reference schemes such as Aadhaar, eEstonia, BankID & Mobile Connect.
Duration – 4 weeks
Start date – 29th October 2018
About Us
What We Do
Digital Frontiers Institute (DFI) prepares tomorrow’s fintech leaders for the challenges and opportunities they will encounter in a fast-changing and disruptive industry.
Switch Community
DFI connects more than 1 500 industry professionals representing public, private and development sectors in 60 countries through its online community, Switch.
Our Courses
DFI’s mission is to equip a new generation of professionals with the information, skills, and vision they need to guide society towards inclusive digital financial solutions.
OUR FUNDERS & PARTNERS
IS THE DIGITAL FRONTIERS INSTITUTE FOR YOU?
You are interested
in developing your
digital financial
skill set.
You want to make
digital financial
solutions more
accessible.
You want to open
yourself up to new
job opportunities
& promotions.
Founders
David Porteous (Chairman)
David has been involved in finance inclusion initiatives internationally for more than two decades. He received his bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Cape Town, and later obtained an M.Phil in economics from Cambridge and a PhD (Economics) from Yale. David has held executive roles in public and private financial institutions in Africa, and is the founder and CEO of BFA, a consulting firm based in Boston.
Gavin Krugel (C.E.O.)
Gavin has been involved in the payments and financial services industry for over 20 years. He has managed large global development programs as a former manager of the Mobile Money for the Unbanked and Mobile Health programs at the GSMA and has held leadership and board positions in both large multinational organisations and start-ups. He holds an MBA from the Grenoble Graduate School of Business.
Ignacio Mas – Executive Director
Ignacio Mas is a Senior Fellow at CEME at the Fletcher School. He has been deputy director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has held senior telecoms jobs at Vodafone and Intel, and has been adjunct professor at the Business School at the University of Chicago. He holds a SB degree from MIT and a PhD from Harvard.