Bankable Frontier Associates is a niche consulting firm, based in Boston MA, USA, which specializes in the design and evaluation of strategies and policies to extend the bankable frontier; that is, the reach of formal financial services in emerging markets around the world.

The application of new technology and changing financial regulation are both powerful forces which can reshape this frontier. We are actively involved in tracking and advising public and private sector, as well as regulators, on how best to harness these forces to best advantage. The bankable frontier is both an opportunity and a challenge to policy makers and to financial service providers. Bankable Frontier Associates specializes in advising, designing and evaluating initiatives which address the challenge, and take advantage of the new opportunity.

We are a triple bottom line consultancy. This means that we do not maximize financial profit; rather we balance the need for financial sustainability as a private consultancy with our desire to have positive social and environmental impact. In practice, this means that not only do we carefully select the clients and projects on which we work, and evaluate the broader impact of each; but we also seek to help address one of the biggest constraints in development finance today--a shortage of skilled professionals in many areas—by providing opportunities for people to learn and develop.

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