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A Cheap Modular System Will Provide Better Shelter to Indians With Shoddy Metal Roofs
Much of the world will go to sleep tonight under a corrugated iron roof, a quite bumpy, ill-fitting way to cover a house. They'll get hot in summer, get no insulation in winter, and the thing will probably crack and corrode before too long.
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9 African Countries That Score Highest for Financial Inclusion
Mobile technology has accelerated financial inclusion for the so-called under served — people with inadequate access to traditional banking institutions — according to a newly released Brookings report.
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10 Challenges That Could Make or Break India’s Payments Banks: Their revolutionary potential is no guarantee
Last week, the Reserve Bank of India announced that it will issue 11 Payments Bank (PB) licenses, permitting a variety of institutions to provide a limited slate of financial services to underserved populations. The RBI hopes PBs will “revolutionize banking” in India, but their impact is not guaranteed. Here are 10 challenges PBs will face – and how they can live up to the government’s ambitious goals.
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What payments banks, Bandhan can do for financial inclusion in India
There have two big developments in financial inclusion in the country in the past few days, whose significance stands out despite the din arising from the recent global stock market crash.
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PRESS RELEASE: MoneyGram Expands Mobile Money Choices in Africa
New agreement enables customers to receive money directly to M-Pesa accounts in Tanzania.
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OPINION: Safaricom plays hardball in Equitel-M-Pesa Battle
In one single move, Safaricom has potentially pulled the rug from under Equity Bank's poorly hidden plan to eat their lunch, dinner and breakfast.
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How the Global Stock Market Selloff Will Affect Crowdfunding
While this “of the people, for the people, by the people” approach to raising money may see itself as divorced from anything happening on Wall Street, that’s hardly the case.
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Consumers lose out as Safaricom and Equity tariff wars intensify
A fresh storm is brewing between Kenya’s financial services giants, Safaricom and Equity Bank, over the rates being levied to consumers making transactions across the two service providers.
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