Financial Services Volunteer Corps
Alyssa Friend is an experienced professional in program coordination, communications, and marketing, currently serving as the Program and Communication Coordinator at the Financial Services Volunteer Corps since September 2022. Previously, Alyssa held the position of Language and Cultural Ambassador at Ministerio de Educación in España from September 2020 to June 2022. In the marketing domain, Alyssa worked as a Marketing Associate at Guilford Savings Bank for several months in 2020 and completed various internships at the same bank from 2016 to 2019, including roles as a Loan Origination Intern and Marketing and Operations Intern. Academic credentials include a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with Leadership Distinction in Marketing from the University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business, and a brief educational experience at Universidad Nebrija in 2019. Alyssa's early education includes a high school diploma from Daniel Hand High School, awarded in 2016.
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Financial Services Volunteer Corps
FSVC is a not-for-profit, public-private partnership whose mission is to help build the sound financial systems needed to support robust market economies in transitioning and developing countries. Sound financial infrastructure is essential to support private entrepreneurship, promote job creation, mobilize domestic savings, attract foreign investment, and create conditions that promote lasting economic opportunity. FSVC’s core work concentrates on strengthening commercial banking systems, developing central bank capabilities, and building capital markets and other non-bank financial institutions. Major additional areas of work include improving access to financial services for small and medium-sized enterprises, financial inclusion, and strengthening financial sector capacity to combat money laundering and corruption. Another critical area of current work involves increasing financial transparency and to promote sound governance. FSVC structures practical, results-oriented technical assistance and training missions staffed by senior financial sector practitioners who serve as unpaid volunteers. Over the past 31 years, more than 9,500 experts from the international financial, legal, and regulatory communities have taken part in 3,400 FSVC missions, reaching millions of people in over 70 developing and transitioning countries. FSVC’s work in recent years has been focused in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.