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EBRD Supports Micro Businesses in Tunisia
November, 30 2016
Tunisia - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is further supporting micro and small enterprises in Tunisia by providing a TND 4 million (€1.6 million equivalent) loan to Microcred Tunisie S.A. (Microcred), a microfinance institution that began operating in November 2014
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Cambodia: Experts Warn Against Interest Rate Cap
November, 29 2016
Cambodia - Soklong indicated that if Cambodia adopted interest rate caps – a populist measure that Prime Minister Hun Sen called on last week to help those in the struggling rice sector – it would cause loan sizes to grow, diminishing the ability of MFIs to lend.
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De-jargoned: Impact Investing—the Business of Doing Good
November, 24 2016
India - Impact investing is not charity and investors expect a return here too. The difference is that here they also want to make a positive impact. Besides looking at returns, they look to invest in companies whose activities can influence the environment and society
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Pakistan: BOP, FINCA Sign MasterCard Affiliate Programme
November, 23 2016
Pakistan - FINCA Microfinance Bank and the Bank of Punjab signed an agreement on the MasterCard affiliate membership. The program enables the Bank of Punjab - a premier MasterCard partner - to extend its MasterCard license to FINCA MFB, thereby becoming the first such affiliation in the country.
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Ending Extreme Poverty: New Evidence on the Graduation Approach
November, 22 2016
Global - The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 is as exciting as it is daunting: End extreme poverty. Worldwide, around 700 million people live on less than US$1.90 per day, the World Bank’s international poverty benchmark. But the challenges that ultra-poor households face extend beyond low income alone
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Muhammad Yunus: Charity with a Business Engine
November, 22 2016
Global - Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel laureate, social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and founder of Grameen Bank is a big believer in empowering the individual as a means of alleviating poverty. “All human beings are born entrepreneurs,” he said in this interview with PBS. “Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.
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European Microfinance Week Wraps Up with Debate on Digital Finance's Threat to Traditional Microfinance
November, 21 2016
Luxembourg - European Microfinance Week, organised by the European Microfinance Platform on its tenth anniversary, concluded on Friday in Luxembourg, after having brought together over 470 opinion-leaders, top management of banks, funds and other financial institutions, practitioners, academics, analysts, raters and industry commentators to present key innovations, challenges and the work conducted in the previous year by e-MFP’s several dedicated Action Groups
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Special Report: Evolving Regulations Obscure the Future of Microfinance in Myanmar
November, 21 2016
Myanmar - Paul Luchtenburg, who serves as coordinator for the UN Capital Development Fund in Myanmar, described several of the contrasts in the microfinance industry in Myanmar at European Microfinance Week Thursday. Five years into civilian rule, Mr Luchtenburg says “I’ve never seen a government work so hard. You go to a meeting and the results go up the leadership chain that night…. There’s this rapid push for development.
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The Gift of Giving in Haiti
November, 21 2016
Haiti - Jeff Boshart serves as vice president on the board for FARMS International. He recently visited Haiti and was updated on one of their two micro-loan projects in the Central Plateau of Haiti
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India: MFIs See Normalcy Soon
November, 18 2016
India - Microfinance institutions expect collection and disbursal to improve towards the end of the month after the upset caused by demonetisation.
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Microfinancing Empowering Women in Pakistan
November, 17 2016
Pakistan - As woman entrepreneur, supporting her family on her own, Shaheen demonstrates each day that other women in Sindh can take control of their lives, work hard, educate their children, and lead their families to prosperity.
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Digital Finance and the Power of Scale
November, 16 2016
Global - Financial services providers around the world are already seizing this digital moment and recognizing the market opportunity at the bottom of the economic pyramid. Now is the time to turn our individual successes into a worldwide movement.
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Cambodia: Finance for Women Easier
November, 16 2016
Cambodia - Acleda Bank, a leading locally-owned commercial bank, has received a $30 million loan from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the US government’s development finance institution, through Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women and the International Finance Corporation’s Banking on Women program for supporting women-owned small and medium-sized businesses in Cambodia
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The Future of Refugee Financial Inclusion
November, 15 2016
Global - This is the fourth and final blog entry in a series exploring how financial services can be leveraged to assist refugee populations. This entry will consider the future of refugee financial services and what our sector can do to ensure that the future is an inclusive one that serves genuine needs and protects refugee rights.
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MiCRO Expands Microinsurance Market in Central America
November, 15 2016
Central America - The Microinsurance Catastrophe Risk Organization (MiCRO), a reinsurance company incorporated in Barbados, has announced a new microinsurance product offering to meet the protection needs of low-income families in Central America.
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Bolivia: Microcredit - Blazing a Path
November, 14 2016
Bolivia - For years, Bolivia has pushed to make microfinance a part of the country’s financial mainstream. Now, several Latin American nations are trying to follow in its footsteps.
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Nigeria: CBN, IFAD Seek to Expand Rural Financial Inclusion
November, 13 2016
Nigeria - The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, have concluded plans to sustain the Rural Finance Institution Building Programme initiatives by establishing Rural Outreach Coordinating Committee to enhance financial inclusion in rural areas after the exit of RUFIN
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Palestine: UNRWA Microfinance Department Wins 'Transparency Award'
November, 12 2016
Palestine - The microfinance department of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees has been awarded with the 'Transparency Award' at Sanabel's 12th annual conference which convened in Casablanca, Morocco on 1-2 November 2016, an UNRWA press release said on Friday
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Malaysia: Growth in Demand for Microfinance Hampered by Fear of Debt
November, 09 2016
Malaysia - Microfinance has become a crucial tool to promote financial inclusion and reduce poverty in Malaysia. The sustainability of microfinance depends on the lending institutions, or Microfinance Institutions, being able to increase outreach and engage potential borrowers
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Ethiopia: Thrives, Strives
November, 08 2016
Ethiopia - In the pursuit of much needed profits by banks, microfinance loans - a fixture for Ethiopia's rural agriculturalists and micro-entrepreneurs - are beginning to be identified as a way to improve the performance of some private banks
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Myanmar: Microfinance Lender to Expand on Maybank Loan
November, 03 2016
Myanmar - Myanmar Finance International Limited – a microfinance joint venture between a London-listed investment firm and a Norwegian fund for developing countries – is planning to expand its operations after receiving a local currency loan from the Yangon branch of Maybank
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Mexico Financial Inclusion
November, 02 2016
Mexico - When it comes to crafting smart financial inclusion policies and effective regulation, evidence and data are key. In Mexico, financial regulators have taken the lead.
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Kenya Ends Hidden Costs for Digital Financial Services
November, 02 2016
Kenya - The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) on October 29 announced an important new standard for pricing in digital financial services. All financial services providers that offer services via digital channels must now present consumers full information on the costs before they use the service on the same screen on which the consumer is transacting.
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India: Fintech - Collaboration or Disruption?
November, 01 2016
Global - Over the past couple of years, ‘digital’ has been a buzzword in the financial industry. Bank managements devote time to discuss digital strategies during analyst meets, in addition to the usual operating metrics. Amidst all this brouhaha, there are some fundamental questions that must be thought about: is the level of embracement of technology the same among all banks
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