Financial Services Volunteer Corps

The Financial Services Volunteer Corps (FSVC) is a not-for-profit organization that helps strengthen financial sectors in developing countries, with the ultimate aim of promoting job creation and access to financial services. It advances economic development by deploying senior financial sector professionals who serve as unpaid volunteer experts, delivering practical technical assistance to local partners. Its core areas of expertise include strengthening central banking capacity, improving commercial banking sectors, and developing robust capital markets, as well as improving access to financial services for SMEs, broadening financial opportunities, strengthening public financial management, and combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism. FSVC works with public and private sector institutions in host countries, including financial regulators, ministry officials, law enforcement representatives, banks and non-bank financial institutions, SMEs and civil society representatives.

The Financial Services Volunteer Corps (FSVC) is a not-for-profit organization that helps strengthen financial sectors in developing countries. Its official website states that it has 30 years of strengthening financial sectors in developing countries, and its Who We Are page refers to more than a quarter century of transforming financial sectors in the developing and emerging market world. FSVC advances economic development by strengthening financial sectors in developing countries, delivering practical technical assistance to local partners by deploying senior financial sector professionals who serve as unpaid volunteer experts. Its core areas of expertise include strengthening central banking capacity, improving commercial banking sectors, and developing robust capital markets; it also works to improve access to financial services for SMEs, broaden financial opportunities, strengthen public financial management, and combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. FSVC works with public and private sector institutions in host countries, including financial regulators, ministry officials, law enforcement representatives, banks and non-bank financial institutions, SMEs and civil society representatives.

FSVC's volunteer-based model makes it unique among its peers, as training and advice are inherently objective; its programs are demand-driven, with local partners requesting targeted technical assistance to address self-identified challenges.

1. 1FSVCfsvc.org
2. 2Who We Are – FSVCfsvc.org