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Tanzania is undergoing different economical and financial tends as the country, one which are effects of several adjustment of the national economic situation. These trends and adjustments do not only concern the government alone, it extends further to various sectors that are reliable to the contribution of the national economic growth. The said means different institutions are part and parcel of these adjustments as they either affect or are affected by the economic structure of the country.

When you speak of the future of microfinance, we hope a future of progress in innovation. The progress that can take one of two forms. Horizontal or extensive progress means copying things that work from lower to higher. Horizontal progress is easy to imagine because we already know what it looks like. Vertical or intensive progress means doing new things, that is; going from nothing to something (0 to 1). Vertical progress is harder to imagine because it requires doing something nobody else has ever done.

The financial sector in Tanzania has faced the major transitions that pushed the change in operations. Financial activities today are not as they used to be before, amongst many reasons one of the biggest and crucial component is emergency of the so called financial technology or as famously known as Fintech.

The year 2020 has taught a lot to the financial sector and financial institutions. One of the biggest and the major lesson that the financial institutions has learnt in the year 2020 is the importance of the Digital platforms in execution of their activities. Due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic many of the activities that involves physical meetings were banned as part of precaution against the spread of the pandemic Covid-19.