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Mexico Ruling Party Says Deal Struck With Banks on Fee Bill
The new version of the bill removes across-the-board prohibitions from the original legislation, but requires banks to offer zero-fee accounts to low income clients, Monreal’s aide Juan Garay said.
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- Latin America
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European Microfinance Award 2019 Focuses on How Financial Inclusion Sector can Strengthen Resilience to Climate Change
The European Microfinance Award 2019 seeks to highlight organisations active in the financial inclusion sector that provide financial and non-financial products and services aimed at strengthening the resilience of vulnerable communities to the effects of Climate Change.
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- Finance
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Regarding Facebook’s cryptocurrency
This is not Facebook’s first venture into virtual currencies, payments, or peer-to-peer payments via messenger app.
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- Finance, Technology
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Viewpoint: The Modi Years: Have banking services become more accessible for Indians?
The Jan Dhan Yojana led to an increase in the number of bank accounts. But credit facilities have not expanded.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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Press release: VisionFund International’s Women’s Empowerment Fund Commits 2019 Funding to Armenia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Uganda and Vietnam
Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, VisionFund International (VisionFund), the microfinance arm of children’s charity World Vision, has pledged over $1.2 million in funding to support over 32,000 women in 2019 in Armenia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Vietnam from its Women’s Empowerment Fund, a fund established to empower women’s ability to improve their livelihoods and benefit their children.
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Coffee, Cocoa, and the Cutting Edge
Deforestation is threatening crop diversity and jeopardizing the livelihoods of millions of poor small farmers around the world. But innovative technologies and better access to financing can help farmers to counter some of these risks.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Finance, Technology
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Daring to Think Big: Why It’s Time to Scale Impact-Linked Finance
The 2030 deadline for reaching Sustainable Development Goal targets may sound far off, but for German-based impact advisory firm Roots of Impact, the “SDG financing abyss” is an urgent issue. Three of the organization's leaders say financing the SDGs will require new approaches to investing, including impact-linked finance – a merging of blended finance, impact investing and results-based finance. They lay out a blueprint for accelerating impact-related finance by incorporating outcome funds, utilizing technologies like blockchain and other strategies in this illuminating post.
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Ivory Coast telcos in mobile money tax dispute
The Telecommunications/ICT Regulatory Authority of Côte d'Ivoire (ARTCI) has directed mobile operators to immediately stop transferring the additional cost of mobile money transactions onto the consumer.
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- Finance, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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