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Bramer Bank Provides Gateway to Investment in Africa
Mauritius is the easiest place to do business in Africa, offering a compelling banking environment for industry pioneers such as Bramer Bank.
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Zebpay Launches Bitcoin Mobile Wallet in India
Tech firm Zebpay on March 11 announced launch of its 'bitcoin' mobile wallet in the country. The wallet, which is in form of a mobile application, will help its user buy, sell and transact in bitcoins, which is presently valued at around USD 280 per unit at present.
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Gates Foundation Issues Mobile Money Data Challenge
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is continuing its push to accelerate the adoption of mobile money in the developing world by offering grants to firms that devise ways to capture data relating to the delivery and use of digital financial services.
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Women: The Unbanked “CFOs”
There are 2.5 billion in the world without a bank account. That number is familiar and been reported widely. What’s lesser known is that a majority of those 2.5 billion unbanked people are women.
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Press Release: IFC Study Shows How Tanzania Became Mobile Financial Services Pioneer
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today published a study documenting the establishment of interoperability in the mobile financial services market in Tanzania, an arrangement that increases access to mobile financial services and advances financial inclusion.
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Refugees Volunteer to Keep African Restaurant Mu’ooz Open in Brisbane
A not-for-profit Brisbane restaurant that helps female African refugees hopes volunteers and diversification will help keep the business running.
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Check out a Replay of Latest Google+ Hangout : Our guests: Kayser, Budinich authors of ‘Scaling Up Business Solutions to Social Problems’
The new book, “Scaling Up Business Solutions to Social Problems,” not only assesses “why is the lab for social innovation full but its globalization plant so empty?” but provides realistic remedies to turn around vexing problem of scale. In our next Google Hangout, authors Olivier Kayser and Valeria Budinich join us.
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Social Enterprises On the Rise
A prudent man holds on to the old as long as it is good, and grabs hold of the new as soon as it is better; so goes an old adage. It's time to let go of the old and discredited handout and hand-me-down charity approach, and take hold instead of the hand-up approach to community and nation-building practised by social entrepreneurs and social enterprises. There are two outstanding men among us who are at the forefront of grabbing hold of this new paradigm; one from the public sector and the other from the private sector.
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