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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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Kenya’s Family Bank appoints first female CEO to take on the country’s male-dominated banking industry
Rebecca Mbithi has been appointed as the new Family Bank CEO replacing David Thuku who resigned in September last year. Her appointment, if approved by the Central Bank of Kenya will make her one of the few female chief executives in Kenya’s financial services sector.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MTN, Ericsson extend mobile money deal
MTN and Ericsson have signed a five-year contract extension to deploy new products and provide managed services for mobile money services in 13 countries across Africa and the Middle East.
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- Finance, Technology
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- North Africa & Near East
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Report: Over 80 percent of social investments in Myanmar are in microfinance
Among the goals of the forum is for AVPN to influence investors’ portfolios more deeply in order to help them increase the impact of their work. During the forum, AVPN also released its Social Investment Landscape in Myanmar Report.
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- Asia Pacific
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Mastercard and Angaza shine for payments in emerging markets
San Francisco-based Angaza provides a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) embedded metering and monitoring technology, while Mastercard brings its digital payment solutions and infrastructure including QR technology.
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- Energy, Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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India’s microfinance industry posts 43% growth in Q3
The total number of microfinance accounts witnessed an annual growth of 24.3 per cent.
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- Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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- microfinance
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Press release: GSMA Report Highlights 20 Per Cent Annual Increase in Mobile Money Accounts to More Than 866 Million Worldwide
“The mobile money industry is fast-evolving against a backdrop of increasing internet access and smartphone adoption, and now more than ever, mobile’s unparalleled global scale provides a tremendous opportunity to reach the 1.7 billion people who remain financially excluded.”
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- Finance
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