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Shriram Transport Finance Raises $250 Million Loan From Development Finance Corporation
The transport finance company had earlier raised another $475 million in bonds from the international market during the start of this year.
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- Finance, Transportation
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: Will Informal Savings Groups Survive Inflation?
With the current economic downturn, the disintegration of some of these savings groups is not out of question.
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- Finance
- Region
- Global
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Press Release: Mastercard Commits to Delivering Economic Empowerment Tools and Resources to More Than One Million Women in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras
Company to empower women and girls in Northern Central America with access to training, capital, business networks and financial tools needed to succeed in the digital economy through Mastercard led and sponsored programs
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- Finance
- Region
- Latin America
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Africa is Getting its First Full-Service Vaccine Facility
The new vaccine facility, dubbed Madiba (Manufacturing in Africa for Disease Immunisation and Building Autonomy) will be built in Diamniadio.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- manufacturing, vaccines
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Nigerian Startup Klasha Gets an Additional $2.1 Million for Its Cross-Border Commerce Play
Lagos and San Francisco-based Klasha has received an additional $2.1 million to complete its $4.5 million seed round.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Two Africans Overcame Bias To Build A Startup Worth Billions
A pair of twentysomethings from Uganda and Ghana thought there was a fortune to be made bringing transnational financial services to Africa's 1.2 billion people.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Expanding Financial Opportunity to All: Kiva CEO Chris Tsakalakis Discusses the Pioneering Lending Platform’s Evolving Focus
In April of last year, Chris Tsakalakis was named CEO of the San Francisco-based microlending nonprofit Kiva, after successful leadership stints at Vivino, the world’s largest online wine marketplace, and StubHub, the world’s largest online ticket marketplace. We caught up with Tsakalakis roughly one year into his tenure at Kiva, to discuss his vision and priorities for the organization, the lessons he’s learned in his time at the helm, and his thoughts on the challenges and opportunities facing Kiva and the broader microfinance sector in the coming years.
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The Philippine Fintech Market to Reach 44 BN USD Despite the Socio-Economic Hurdles
The largest growth occurred in the mobile wallets, online payments, and wire transfers segments.
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- Finance, Technology
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- South Asia