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American Express Serve Announces Research Pilot to Encourage Consumer Saving
American Express AXP, -0.91% today announced that it is kicking off a research pilot to study consumer savings behaviors using the Serve software platform. This research pilot can help identify new ways to promote saving and explore whether certain behavioral interventions are effective in increasing consumer savings. This program will also help inform research at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the U.S. government agency charged with making financial markets work for American consumers, to better understand how to promote saving among consumers.
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PRESS RELEASE: OPIC Board of Directors Approves New Financing Commitments
The Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) today held a quarterly meeting considering new projects for approval.
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Vodacom has big M-Pesa plans in South Africa
Vodacom aims to push the envelope with its revamped M-Pesa in 2015, a year in which it hopes it will emerge as the most disruptive player in the local mobile money space.
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Econet jumps back into insurance. What’s their play here?
It’s no longer called EcoLife, but Econet is back in the insurance game.
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E-Kwanza Mobile Payment Service Launched in Angola
Angolan Investment Bank (BAI) has launched e-Kwanza a mobile money service that allows users to make transfers and payments for goods and services across the country.
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Building Quality Products to Improve Low-Income Americans’ Financial Health: CFSI, Visa discussion conveys key challenges and opportunities for U.S. financial services providers
What is needed to improve the financial lives of low-income people in the U.S.? CFSI and Visa recently hosted a discussion on this question with notable financial services executives. They challenged the group to identify solutions for the 68 million financially underserved Americans. Kimberly Gartner, CFSI’s Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, describes the conversation that ensued.
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Working from the Inside Out : IDB’s inaugural conference on scaling corporate social enterprise explores building bridges
Last month the Inter-American Development Bank and its associate organizations organized in the first-ever Scaling Corporate Social Enterprise Conference in Santiago, Chile. Entrepreneurs and "intrapreneurs" shared experiences during the event, which allowed reflection over the obstacles each one finds when attempting to scale their social change models.
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Micro Insurance: A Tool for Financial Inclusion
Financial inclusion is now one of the most talked about agendas towards holistic development of the country. With the thrust towards financial inclusion by the Narendra Modi government to achieve all round growth of society, micro insurance is poised to play an important role in it.
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