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Goldman Sachs Group Lends $150 Million to Clara to Meet Latin America Firms’ Need for Loans
The funding will help to meet Latin American corporations’ need for loans and assistance with spending management across the region.
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- Finance
- Region
- Latin America
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Tymebank to Acquire Leading Fintech SME Funder, Retail Capital, as It Bolsters Its Business Banking Offering in South Africa
Small business owners to benefit from access to turnover-based finance provided by SME funder Retail Capital.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Digital Credit Algorithms in India: Expanding Access or Cementing Exclusion?
CFI explores how automated decision-making tools for digital credit are playing out for one demographic in India: interstate migrants.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Why Social Enterprises Struggle to Measure Impact – And What Impact Investors Can Do About It
Impact investors typically rely on output measurements, such as total capital invested or number of people served, to assess their impact. But it's harder for investors and their investees to sustainably capture outcome data that assesses actual improvements in customers' lives. Spencer MacColl at Kiva shares data from Kiva's annual impact measurement survey, which reflects the current measurement practices and challenges of the microfinance institutions and other social enterprises Kiva supports. He explores the lessons these findings offer to impact investors and others who are working to design more effective measurement practices.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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Indian Fintech Tartan Secures Funding to Scale Payroll Management Solution
The proceeds from the round will be used to scale its operations while expanding its engineering team.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- business development, fintech, scale
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Press Release: IFC Invests in West African Fund to Boost Growth of SMEs and Women-Led Businesses in the Region
The fund will provide growth capital to the region's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including women-led businesses.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: How Poverty, Insecurity is Crippling Nigeria’s Economy and Businesses
Apart from Nigeria's poor economy, the rate of financial insecurity in the country in recent times is a serious source of worry.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Delphos Advises African Mobile Money Unicorn on Euro 90 Million Syndicated Loan
Delphos advised Wave Mobile Money Holdings Inc. on its highly successful €90 million Syndicated Loan to further accelerate its growth in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal.
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- Finance, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa