Inverse Fintech: From economic proposition to practical application. An explanatory paper on the WeSail.Green model
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Inverse Fintech This paper explains the term Inverse Fintech: an asset-first approach to financial inclusion in which access to a deliberately selected productive asset is used to help create the repayment capacity and the financial record that conventional lending requires in advance. It sets out the definition, positions the idea against the Graduation approach, pay-as-you-go digital collateral and alternative-data credit scoring, and describes a six-layer architecture of productive asset, capability, fair finance, household protection, evidence and graduation, governed throughout by consent, privacy and independent evaluation. It traces the idea to the author's hire-purchase experience in Uganda (1997–2006), including the lessons of the Shimoni litigation, and explains how WeSail.Green proposes to test it in a 300-household pilot in Kenya, illustrates the economics with one household followed through the full contract, and shows how location and generation evidence may continue to serve carbon accounting, regional energy planning and the stewardship of second-life panels after the contract ends. The paper states what the pilot can and cannot establish. No Kenyan outcome data yet exist.
Author: Nymand-Andersen, Jesper
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225592564