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Mobile Loans to Enhance Financial Inclusion in Nigeria
December, 31 2015
Nigeria - Participants at this year's Committee of e-Banking Heads (CeBIH) conference, have expressed their strong view that e-business sector will witness more financial inclusion and advancement in the coming years, driven chiefly by the concept of mobile loans
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India: Get Ready for Fin-tech Boom
December, 31 2015
India - The world has come to the brink almost every year for 10 years and yet investors with a five-to-seven-year horizon are in the green with their investments. Ignore the noise and stay with your plan. If you don’t have one, get one
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Sustainable Development Goals Kick Off With Start of New Year
December, 30 2015
Global - As 2015 comes to an end, and with it the 15-year cycle of the anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the United Nations officially will usher in – on 1 January 2016 – an even more ambitious set of goals to banish a whole host of social ills by 2030
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India: Omidyar, Zephyr Peacock Invest in Swarna Pragati Housing
December, 22 2015
India - Housing micro-finance institution Swarna Pragati Housing Microfinance Pvt Ltd has raised an undisclosed amount in a Series B round of funding from Bangalore- based private equity firm Zephyr Peacock and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s Omidyar Network.
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IFC Lends $10 Million Worth Credit Line to Nigeria’s LAPD MfB
December, 22 2015
Nigeria - IFC, the investment arm of the World Bank, will provide $10 million loan to LAPO Microfinance Bank in Nigeria to roll out agent banking that will increase access to financial services for low-income customers, small-scale entrepreneurs and rural communities.
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Pakistan:Government Devises Strategy for Financial Inclusion
December, 21 2015
Pakistan - The government along with central bank has devised a comprehensive strategy to achieve financial inclusion through various reforms and initiatives in the banking sector, but there are challenges ahead to meet the set targets, a report published by Economic Intelligence Unit said
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Mobile Money Making its Way in Ethiopia
December, 16 2015
Ethiopia - Mobile money started to make its way in Ethiopia allowing banks and micro finance institutions to provide customers to opportunity to make and receive payments through mobile devices. Mobile money providers operate as agents taking deposits and handing out cash through the mobile system
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Competition in the Kenyan Digital Finance Market: Mobile Money
December, 14 2015
Kenya - There has been a great deal of international discourse on the topic of mobile money after Kenya’s successful implementation of M-PESA, and as we recently wrote, the success is increasingly shared by banks. This is a clear victory for Kenyan customers, who now have more options to choose from.
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Pakistan: Financial Inclusion - Upping the Game
December, 14 2015
Pakistan - The government likes taking credit for every small positive development. However, more than the government, it's the central bank's efforts that have been the drivers behind the improvement in the country's microfinance and branchless banking. And since these two are key factors for financial inclusion, Pakistan has been doing well on The Global Microscope Rankings
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Ethiopia: Enat Facilitates Microfinancing for Women
December, 14 2015
Ethiopia - Enat Bank S.C. has signed an agreement with two micro-financing institutions, Poverty Eradication and Community Empowerment, and Eshet Micro Finance Institution share companies. The agreement will enable the institutions to borrow from Enat at reduced rates
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World’s First Impact Focused Equity Crowdfunding Portal Launches in Africa, to Support SMEs
December, 10 2015
Africa - Small and medium-sized enterprises are the primary job creation engine in Africa, accounting for over 95% of firms and 60%-70% of employment. Yet, SME’s on the continent report access to finance as the biggest obstacle to growth. Malaik, an impact-focused equity crowdfunding portal, test launched today, to connect investors interested in impact investment opportunities and entrepreneurs raising equity finance
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Dai-ichi Life Invests in First Microfinance Bonds Issued by the EBRD for Institutional Investor
December, 07 2015
Global - The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company has purchased $100 million of Microfinance bonds issued by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the international financial institution that invests in projects in 36 countries, from central Europe to central Asia and the southern and eastern Mediterranean, becoming the sole investor in the bond that supports EBRD’s funding to micro or small-sized enterprises
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Foreign Aid Needs to Help Them, Not Us
December, 04 2015
Global - Earlier this year Foreign Minister Julie Bishop released a booklet on women's empowerment to commemorate International Women's Day. It made mention of the Micro-enterprise Development Program, which was partly funded by the Australian government and which has helped some poor women living in rural Nepal gain access to credit loans.
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Expanding Rural Finance to Colombia’s Impoverished Farmers
December, 01 2015
Colombia - Rural finance is emerging as one of Colombia’s most pressing development challenges as the country moves toward a peace agreement to end a 50 year-long civil war and looks to provide for the impoverished rural areas, considered by many to be one of the causes of the conflict
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Rice University: Impact Investing Is Making Headway in Latin America
December, 01 2015
Latin America - Impact investing, an investment strategy that generates financial returns while directing funds to entities providing goods and services to the poor, is making headway in Latin America, according to an issue brief from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy
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