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Belarus: EBRD Deepens Cooperation with Belarusky Narodny Bank
July, 30 2015
Belarus - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is engaging Belarusky Narodny Bank (BNB-Bank) into its Risk Sharing Facility (RSF), a special financing programme designed to share risk in loans provided to small and medium-sized companies. BNB-Bank becomes the first Belarusian financial institution to join the RSF
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India: Ujjivan Raises Rs 50 Crore Through Commercial Papers
July, 30 2015
India - "This transaction is a big milestone for both the sector and for Ujjivan as it represents remarkable investor confidence in the sector," said Samit Ghosh, founder and managing director of the Bengaluru-based Ujjivan Financial Services.
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IFC Partners with Belarus to Boost Small and Medium Enterprises
July, 29 2015
Belarus - IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the Belarusian Ministry of Economy agreed to jointly improve the business environment for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and support the growth of the private sector, key for Belarus’ sustainable development
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New Tools to Accommodate Old Financial Habits
July, 27 2015
Global - Giving the poor a wide range of financial choices is an admirable goal, but do we really need to “nudge” them to change behaviours, as if the choice had already been made for them?
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Mobile Merchant Payments: The Next Battleground?
July, 27 2015
Global - As the debate rages on in the United States over whether Apple Pay will change everything or flop like countless mobile payments efforts before it, merchant payments have emerged as an increasingly hot topic in developing countries as well
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Pakistan: Banks Surpass Agricultural Credit Target, Rs 516b Disbursed in FY15
July, 26 2015
Pakistan - Against the indicative target of Rs 500 billion (which was 28 percent higher than the actual agri credit disbursement of Rs.391 billion in FY14), banks disbursed Rs 515.9 billion in FY15, which was Rs 15.9 billion in excess of the target and 31.8 percent higher than the last year’s disbursement of Rs 391.4 billion, said State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) in a statement
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USD 564 Million in Loans to Small-scale Farmers
July, 20 2015
Global - Members of the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF) announced on 16 July 2015 that they provided USD 564 million in loans to 658 small and medium-sized businesses in 64 countries during 2014, an increase of 56 percent from 2013.
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IFC Lends 10 Mln USD to Cambodian Microfinance Institution
July, 20 2015
Cambodia - The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has disbursed a loan of up to 10 million U.S. dollars to Hattha Kaksekar, Cambodia's fourth-largest microfinance institution, to support the growth of micro, small and medium businesses in the rural and agricultural sectors, according to its statement on Monday.
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Impact Investing: The New Frontier
July, 14 2015
Global - Forecasts estimate that over the next decade the market for impact investing is expected to reach $32 billion in Australia and up to US$1 trillion globally
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MasterCard Foundation to Expand Support to Rwanda
July, 14 2015
Rwanda - MasterCard Foundation looks to expand its operations in Rwanda given the country's ambitious poverty reduction programmes and support to philanthropists willing to make a difference, the Foundation's President and Chief Executive Officer has said
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Pakistan: Microfinance - Teeming with Spirit
July, 14 2015
Pakistan - Microfinance graduated to a billion dollar business in Pakistan last year. Gleaning the Pakistan Microfinance Review (2014), which was recently released by the sector’s representative body and data-aggregator Pakistan Microfinance Network (PMN), the year gone by, can be classified as the sector’s best in recent years
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IMF and MDBs Announce $400B Financing to Boost Sustainable Development
July, 13 2015
Global - To achieve the global Sustainable Development Goals, it is essential to increase investment and resource flows to developing countries. However, this can happen only where a country has a coherent development strategy, support for key public sector services, and a business environment that promotes growth
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Jamaica National Small Business Loans Says Market Remains Underserved
July, 12 2015
Jamaica - In the face of competition from commercial banks which have established their own small business lending units and the entry of new businesses in the micro-finance lending sector, JN Small Business Loans Limited (JNSBL) said its potential for growth was not by any means approaching saturation point
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India: Micro Finance Institutions to Maintain Growth Momentum
July, 07 2015
India - While banks struggle to grow profitably, small lenders like micro finance institutions have concluded a fiscal in which their gross loan portfolio grew a whopping 61% to Rs 40,000 crore, according to a report by MFIN (Microfinance Institutions Network).
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East Asia & Pacific: Bank Lends a Hand
July, 07 2015
East Asia & Pacific - Technical assistance will be provided to microfinance institutions and partners in the Pacific by the European Investment Bank under its new Pacific microfinance facility
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Rwanda: Will Growth of Mobile Money Disrupt ATM Technology?
July, 07 2015
Rwanda - With the integration, mobile money subscribers who have accounts with the banks, can now transfer funds from their bank accounts to their mobile money wallets easily and vice-versa, which eliminates the need for one to acquire a debit card
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India: No Credit for the Poor
July, 05 2015
India - Slower growth in bank and microfinance credit to the poor is likely to push them back to the welcoming hands of moneylenders
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India: Why Unsecured Loans Are Anything but Risky
July, 02 2015
India - Today, although the SME finance gap remains a reality in many emerging markets across the world, entrepreneurs in the sector are clearly blurring the lines between business and social impact, and are bringing about systemic changes to the traditional lending system—changes that would create jobs, expand businesses and strengthen economies as a whole
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Egypt: Export, Learn … Profit
July, 01 2015
Egypt - The initial evidence from the evaluation of the ATA program offers promising results, suggesting that trade can generate large productivity improvements, in particular for developing countries, in part due to learning-by-exporting
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