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Grameen Koota Reaches Milestone With 1 Million Microfinance Customers
Bangalore-based NBFC –MFI, Grameen Koota Financial Services Pvt Ltd (Grameen Koota) has reached a new milestone of 1 million microfinance customers, in a testimony to its strong client-centric approach aimed at providing holistic financial and social services.
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Social Entrepreneurs That Are Changing the Developing World
Corporate Social Responsibility is a trend that has been gaining more attention in recent years.
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Africa Makes Leap in Cross-Border Mobile Payments
New partnerships aimed at getting a bigger slice of the $48 billion Africans sent and received last year.
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Meet the Kenyan Startup Trying to Change Bill Gates’ Mind on Bitcoin
Bill Gates has been publicly skeptical about the future of the payment technology in the developing world.
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Bangladesh Backs Mobile Phones to Move Cash Among Rural Poor
Bangladesh, home to the world’s second-largest mobile money company, is moving to consolidate the industry as it expands financial services to the rural poor.
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Mobile Money: 4 Services Tackling Wealth Inequality in Africa
While mobile money services are available in 89 countries globally, nowhere are they having more of an impact than in Africa, where 12 percent of adults have mobile money accounts, compared with 2 percent worldwide.
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Will BRICS Bank Challenge the Bretton Woods System?
The formal opening of the BRICS Bank in Shanghai on Jul. 21, following the seventh summit of the world’s five leading emerging economies, demonstrates the speed with which an alternative global financial architecture is emerging.
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Citigroup Hunts for Fintech Innovators, Will a Bitcoin Firm Succeed?
American banking behemoth Citigroup earlier revealed that it has been looking at the Bitcoin’s distributed ledger technology for the last few years, and has developed three blockchains and a test currency calledCiticoin to pass through them in a bid to create a framework parallel to the Bitcoin and the blockchain.
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