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IFC, Netherlands Boost Support to Emerging Market SMEs
November, 26 2015
Global - IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and IFC and the Dutchthe Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs today announced an initiative to provide much needed financing and advice to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially to those in difficult to reach segments and in fragile markets, by lending through emerging market banks and other financial intermediaries
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Financial Inclusion Advancing Across Latam
November, 26 2015
Latin America - The advance of financial inclusion in Latin America during recent years has been encouraging, as all of the countries in the region have seen significant progress, the Latin American Banking Federation (FELABAN) stated in its report on financial inclusion
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Safaricom Partners MTN to Extend M-Pesa to Rwanda
November, 25 2015
Rwanda - Kenya's leading mobile operator, Safaricom has partnered MTN Rwanda to enable customers to make mobile money transactions between Kenya and Rwanda. This follows Safaricom's earlier partnership with Vodacom Tanzania that was aimed at introducing cross-border transactions between customers on the respective networks
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The Future of Money
November, 22 2015
Kenya - A "mobile money" revolution has swept Kenya, where people can send and receive money on their cell phones. It's improved commerce and brought basic necessities to poorer area
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India: Microfinance Can Ensure Sustainable Development
November, 21 2015
India - Dr. Stephen, in his inaugural address, emphasised the need for sustainable development through microfinance initiatives and suggested that the ‘wealth of nation’ needs to be complimented by ‘health of nation’ if growth has to sustain in the long run
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Ethiopia Set to Launch Weather Index Based Crop Insurance
November, 19 2015
Ethiopia - Using the weather data that will be provided by the National Meteorology Agency, Kifiya, the technology company that has been engaged in micro-finance and tailored rural financial solutions, will be providing the micro-insurance platform
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Rwanda: Investments Aren't Gender-neutral When Female Entrepreneurs Face A $320Bn Credit Gap
November, 17 2015
Rwanda - Bertha Nzabanita survived the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, but her husband did not. As a single mother, she struggled to make do with the one coffee field and dilapidated house he had left her. Then Nzabanita discovered Musasa, a coffee cooperative that gave her and other widows from the genocide a stable market for their coffee allowing them to increase their income.
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Cashless Nigeria: Facilitating the Transition to Digital Payments
November, 12 2015
Nigeria - The emergence of Nigeria as a regional economic powerhouse has presented a challenge for Nigerian policymakers: how to convert Nigeria’s growth at the macro level into greater financial inclusion, so that the rising economic tide can benefit more people
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Germans Fund Training for 250 Ghanaian Youth
November, 10 2015
Ghana - The German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development is to provide funding for the training of 250 young Ghanaians in various trades and vocations over a three-year period -Sinapi Aba Trust, a financial institution, and Opportunity International Deutschland, a German non-profit foundation supporting micro-finance projects
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Small Business Finance and Financial Inclusion in Latin America
November, 09 2015
Latina America - Limited acceptance of digital payments and high fees associated with using such services are two obstacles to greater financial inclusion in Latin American countries. Can these issues be solved at the retailer level, rather than the individual level
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Africa: New Case Study Outlines Ways to Drive Financial Inclusion through Mobile Technology
November, 09 2015
Africa - FINCA today released a case study to guide microfinance institutions wishing to implement mobile technology to increase financial inclusion. Since introducing mobile banking to clients in Tanzania over a year ago, with support from The MasterCard Foundation, nearly one-third of FINCA Tanzania’s clients are now using the service for savings deposits and other transactions
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Philippines: Only Accredited NGOs Can Now Engage in Microfinance
November, 08 2015
Philippines -
Only qualified non-government organizations can now engage in microfinance operations for the availment of government incentives.
Last November 3, President Aquino signed the measure regulating NGOs engaging in microfinance operations into law, the Republic Act No. 10693 or “Microfinance NGOs Act”
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Mastercard Helps Kenyan Farmers Access Capital
November, 05 2015
Kenya - Having launched MasterCard Labs for Financial Inclusion — an initiative that MasterCard stated was designed to impact the lives of more than 100 million people around the world “by developing practical and cost-effective financial tools that expand access and help build stable futures over the long term”.
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India: FIS Launches Banking on Demand for Financial Inclusion
November, 05 2015
India - In a bid to improve access and time to market for small competitors in India’s banking industry, FIS has launched ‘Banking on Demand’, a tool designed to allow particularly the small players – such as small banks, payment banks and microfinance institutions – to offer hosted banking services without needing to invest in an expensive back-end infrastructure
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Micro-credit for Palestinians Begins, with Italian Help
November, 04 2015
Palestine - Over 20 million euros have been made available by the Italian foreign ministry and international cooperation for a three-year micro-credit program in the West Bank, an inauguration ceremony for which was held on Wednesday.
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M. Mossman, Ghana: Moving Beyond Microcredit
November, 02 2015
Ghana - I’d come to the market to talk with merchants about how they fund their operations. Financing is perhaps the biggest problem faced by small businesses in the developing world. Local banks aren’t typically an option, because the fees are too high, and in some cases because people lack the necessary documentation and literacy required to get accounts
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South Asia: Why Women Self-Help Group Members Make for Good Bank Agents
November, 02 2015
South Asia - Recent pilot projects conducted by the Rural Financial Institutions Programme (the RFIP, a cooperation program between GIZ India and NABARD) demonstrated that engaging female community members in village financial services can be more effective than using typical customer service representatives as banking agents
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