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Guardian Launches Important New Website on Inequality
April, 28 2017
Global - ‘Over the coming year, the Guardian’s Inequality Project – supported by the Ford Foundation – will try to shed fresh light on these and many more issues of inequality and social unfairness, using in-depth reporting, new academic research and, most importantly, insights from you, our audience, wherever you are in the world and whatever your experiences of inequality.
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Microfinance and Energy Access
April, 28 2017
Global - Energy efficiency, combined with renewable energy, should be the ultimate goal of energy transformation for the world. The unique challenge of energy access is encouraging millions of energy-poor people to leapfrog from a scenario of no electricity and dirty fuel for cooking to a future with the most efficient appliances using electricity generated from renewable sources
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IFC and Ant Financial to Enable Digital Financial Inclusion in Emerging Markets
April, 28 2017
Global - IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and Ant Financial Services Group, one of the world’s leading tech companies and parent company of Alipay— signed a memorandum of understanding to increase support to digital financial solutions to make basic financial services more accessible in China and other emerging markets
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ADB Assistance to Indian Microfinance Co
April, 27 2017
India - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided a $10 million equity investment to Satin Creditcare Network Limited (SCNL) to support the improvement of women’s access to finance in rural and semi-urban areas in India, Bureaucracy Today has learnt.
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Asian Development Bank Faces Critical Tests in the Next Five Years
April, 27 2017
Asia - International financial institutions now pledge to cooperate and act as “honest brokers” to bring in the private sector through their expertise and facilities, with the focus on infrastructure, poorer economies, and common interests such as climate change
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How to Ensure that Sustainable Investing Is Successful and Secure
April, 25 2017
Global - Investors, experts and activists are demanding more sustainable practices from large organizations and public companies; that’s good. Those organizations and companies are going green; that’s also good. But we must ensure that cybersecurity and energy infrastructure also keep pace
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Athena Publishes Research on Constructing Impact Portfolios
April, 25 2017
Global - Athena Capital Advisors, a registered investment adviser that provides investment management, advisory, and outsourced CIO services to private clients and institutions, has released new research on a framework for constructing diversified, multi-asset class investment portfolios that seek both financial and social return.
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MFIN Launches India’s First Financial Literacy App for Microfinancing
April, 25 2017
India - The financial literacy app has been released on Android platform and will be available in six languages including Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil and English. It is aimed to help them in understanding dynamics involved in microfinance including credit history, interest rates, repayment cycles and their rights as a borrower
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IFC Invests $325m in Green Bond Fund for Emerging Markets
April, 21 2017
Global - The IFC has partnered with Amundi, Europe’s largest listed asset manager, with the aim of raising up to $2bn from other international investors to create the biggest green bond fund dedicated to emerging markets to date
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The Five Biggest Myths about Impact Investing
April, 20 2017
Global - As impact investing continues to attract numbers of larger institutional investors, it's important that myths get busted to eradicate this handful of persistent misconceptions. Impact investing is for everyone.
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P. DiLeo, T. A. Watkins, and A. Kanze: Microfinance Is Dead; Long Live Microfinance!
April, 20 2017
Global - The fact that so many donors and impact investors view microfinance as dead undermines the ability of the industry to further strengthen through trial and error the robust business model that underlies its current success and stature—and inspires today’s exuberance for “impact investing”. Microfinance is alive, well and firmly integrated into global mainstream capital markets.
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Solar Energy: A New Frontier for Microfinance
April, 17 2017
Global - What if the institution that financed your business could also light up your house? Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have mostly stayed out of the pay-as-you-go solar (PAYGo) space, but that may be changing — creating both new opportunities and challenges for financial inclusion, as it brings MFIs into consumer financing
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GABV Welcomes its 40th Member - The First Microfinance Bank Tajikistan
April, 13 2017
Global - The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), a network of the world's leading values-based banks, in the last quarter welcomed its 40th member - The First Microfinance Bank Tajikistan. This marks a milestone in membership increase making the Global Alliance bigger as ever.
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Rescuing Myanmar’s Farmers from the Debt Trap
April, 13 2017
Myanmar - The World Bank is piloting a programme that uses mobile-network data and crop-suitability mapping to arrange seasonal loans using mobile money. But cash will remain king of the countryside for a long time, and the MADB’s reach (223 branches) means it has no rivals.
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Pakistan: NBP, TP, Telenor Bank Ink Strategic Alliance
April, 11 2017
Pakistan - With this joining of hands between one of Pakistan’s largest Government-owned banks and one of the Pakistan’s leading telco operators along with its microfinance bank, the dynamics of the Digital Financial Services are sure to reach the next milestone
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Vietnamese Joint Venture to Offer Microfinancing in Myanmar
April, 06 2017
Myanmar - Vietnam's Dragon Capital Group and Myanmar's Ruby Hill Financial on Wednesday signed a deal to set up a joint venture that will provide loan products and services to the burgeoning workforce driving Myanmar's rapid economic development
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How Can Inclusive Business Advance the SDGs?
April, 04 2017
Global - Since the announcement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015, the SDG discourse has become mainstream. The business sector is an especially relevant audience for those promoting a global commitment to achieve the SDGs, mainly because they, through some of the stated goals, talk directly to business and its performance (e.g., SDG 8, “Decent work and economic growth”; 12, “Responsible consumption and production”; 13, “Climate action”)
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