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How Fintech is Enabling Progress Toward the SDGs — And Why it’s Time for Investors to Double Down
Due to high interest rates and other macroeconomic challenges, there's been a global slowdown in venture capital funding to tech firms. David Grimaud at Bamboo Capital Partners explains how this lack of investment is impacting fintech companies in emerging markets, putting not only financial inclusion but other development priorities at risk. He explores how fintech innovators are advancing multiple SDGs, and how the investment community — especially impact-focused investors — can better support them.
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US to Remove Uganda and Three Other African Countries from Agoa Trade Deal
Agoa gives eligible sub-Saharan African countries duty-free access to the US for more than 1,800 products.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Why We Believe Open Sourcing Our Financing Approach Can Accelerate Universal Energy Access in Africa
Openly sharing information has accelerated the impact of innovation on people’s lives for centuries. The most radical and formalized example is the open source movement in software.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenyan Businesses Are Dropping the World’s Favorite Mobile Money Service
The shift by businesses away from M-Pesa payments is a remarkable turn in a country known for pioneering mobile money, and where the service is ubiquitous.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Leapfrog’s New Fund to Double Down on Financial and Healthcare Sectors in Africa and Asia
LeapFrog said it will make initial investments of between $30 million and $70 million in 18 to 20 high-growth businesses.
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- Finance, Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Promoting Financial Inclusion in Colombia’s Rural and Post-Conflict Areas
The debt facility provided by Triodos Microfinance Fund and Triodos Fair Share Fund will enable UNI2 to further expand its loan portfolio.
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- Finance
- Region
- Latin America
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Press Release: USAID Invests Initial $4 Million to Global Financing Facility in Continued Push to Support Health Workers and Bolster Primary Health Care Systems
The initial USAID investment of $4 million to the GFF establishes a trust fund focused on strengthening PHC systems capable of effectively delivering outbreak and pandemic response services in GFF partner countries.
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- Finance, Health Care
- Region
- Global
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Fintech Startup Finerio Secures $6.5 Million to Create Open Finance Ecosystem in Latin America
Shortly after the launch, Finerio was the fourth most downloaded fintech app that year, according to Grassi.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- data, financial inclusion, fintech, startups