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Grameen Foundation lndia Launches G-LEAP e-Learning App
Grameen Foundation India, a technical services provider dedicated to advancing financial inclusion, launched Grameen Learning Program (G-LEAP), a first of its kind e-learning app for microfinance institutions which enables any-time, any-where learning. Powered by Handytrain, the app will help organizations train frontline microfinance staff and agents quickly and cost-effectively, anywhere and at anytime.
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Indians Skipping Plastic Money, Leapfrogging to Mobile Wallets
Unlike the West, Japan and China, which slowly graduated from landline to cordless to cellular telephony and from cash to plastic to mobile payments mode, India has virtually skipped the intermediate stages — cordless telephones and plastic money — of this technological revolution and jumped into cellular telephony and digital banking transaction.
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- South Asia
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- digital payments, fintech
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Technology Meets Impact: New Online Marketplace Aims to Expand the Reach of Impact Investing
ImpactUs aims to simplify the process of impact investing through an online platform that allows investors to identify and invest in products that provide social impact. In this email Q&A, Reginald Stanley, president and CEO of ImpactUs, explains how the platform works – and why it's needed.
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Four Steps to Precision Public Health
When domestic transmission of Zika virus was confirmed in the United States in July 2016, the entire country was not declared at risk — nor even the entire state of Florida. Instead, precise surveillance defined two at-risk areas of Miami-Dade County, neighbourhoods measuring just 2.6 and 3.9 square kilometres. Travel advisories and mosquito control focused on those regions. Six weeks later, ongoing surveillance convinced officials to lift restrictions in one area and expand the other.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Opinion: The Achilles’ Heel For Payments Banks And Financial Inclusion
The RBI's latest operating guidelines for payments banks permit payments banks to "use KYC done by the promoter / promoter group entity", if it "is of the same quality as prescribed for a banking company". This will allow payments banks to leverage their existing telco customer base, and (where KYC has been done to prescribed standard) send out SMSs offering to open an account at the click of a button.
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Catching the FinTech wave: A survey on FinTech in Malaysia
In 2015 and the first half of 2016, US$345 million, representing 11% of total venture capital funding in Southeast Asia went into FinTech. The region’s growing economies and relatively large underbanked populations make it doubly attractive for new market entrants. We set out to assess Malaysian financial service players’ attitudes towards this emerging segment through an online survey and several interviews of top management from both the incumbents and newcomers.
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- South Asia
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- fintech, venture capital
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Vodafone Announces M-Pesa Service for HIV Positive Basotho
Vodafone's M-Pesa mobile money service is being utilised in Lesotho to assist HIV patients in the country according to an announcement by the company on World Aids Day.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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KCB Bank Kenya, Western Union Introduce Mobile Money Transfer
KCB Bank Kenya and Western Union have launched a mobile-phone based money transfer service.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech