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Top 11 Microfinance development banks based in South Africa

Name: Microfinance development banks based in South Africa
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 17, 2026 42 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 42 microfinance development banks headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 28,560 professional contacts across them, including 13,379 with verified work emails. Cape Town is the largest hub.

This list covers microfinance development banks headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 17, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 17, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

42Companies

28,560Contacts tracked

13,379Verified emails

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The 11 largest microfinance development banks based in South Africa

Ranked by team size

Top 11 of 42 microfinance development banks based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 17, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to microfinance development banks: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	FNB South Africa	Indirect evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	10001+	27,033 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “While ‘help’ constitutes a core brand value within FNB, we also practice an overall ethos underpinned by the concept of ‘better business; better world’.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
2	Small Enterprise Development & Finance Agency	Partial evidence	Pretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	501-1,000	593 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Small Enterprise Development and Finance Agency is an agency of the Department of Small Business Development which provides financial and non-financial support to MSMEs &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
3	Land And Agricultural Development Bank Of South Africa	Indirect evidence	Sandton, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	501-1,000	192 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Leaders in agricultural finance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
4	Small Enterprise Foundation	Partial evidence	Tzaneen, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	501-1,000	179 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Small Enterprise Foundation (SEF) is a not-for-profit, pro-poor microfinance institution working towards the eradication of poverty by creating a supportive environment where…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
5	Ubanksa	Indirect evidence	Midrand, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	501-1,000	155 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “African Bank - A bank for the people, by the people, serving the people” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
6	Mycomax Microfinance Solutions	Indirect evidence	Pretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	11-50	29 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “In the Micro Finance Arena, long term sustainability requires you to keep the cost of capital and overheads as low as possible, to manage unlawful behaviour and to promote savings.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
7	Saveact	Indirect evidence	Pietermaritzburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	11-50	25 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “SaveAct enables the formation of savings groups in rural communities as a simple but effective tool to fight poverty.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
8	Asisa Foundation	Indirect evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The ASISA Foundation is a public benefit organisation founded by the Association of Savings and Investments South Africa (ASISA) with the aim of enhancing financial literacy and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
9	Grand Scale	Indirect evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	1-10	4 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We help social entrepreneurs, philanthropy organisations and high growth businesses to improve their cash-flow and grow their businesses by providing financial strategy advice…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
10	Msfit Ventures	Indirect evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	1-10	4 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At MsFiT Ventures (pronounced Misfit), we provide debt to female-led and gender-diverse SMEs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
11	JCM Accounting & Taxation	Indirect evidence	Vanderbijlpark, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	1-10	1 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are a team of professionals which possesses the necessary business accumen to provide a multitude of financial services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: microfinance development banks. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names microfinance development banks.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of microfinance development banks, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name microfinance development banks. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Microfinance development banks based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 17, 2026

46.8%Verified-email coverage

680.0Average contacts per company

11-50Median size (employees)

23.8%Largest-city concentration · Cape Town

Sep 17, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

10001+

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 42 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among microfinance development banks, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “microfinance development banks”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names microfinance development banks), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among microfinance development banks, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 13,379 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 17, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names microfinance development banks, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many microfinance development banks are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 42 microfinance development banks headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

FNB South Africa, headquartered in Johannesburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most microfinance development banks?

Cape Town leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by Johannesburg (8) and Bellville (3).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 13,379 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 42 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 17, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.