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Financial Inclusion and SMEs Set to Soar in Ghana
Financial and insurance activities are expanding at roughly twice the pace of the overall economy and just 30 per cent of the population are formally banked, so industry leaders have good reason to be optimistic about the country’s financial services future.
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Mobile Banking Will Soon Be Possible in India With a Basic Handset and Without Accessing the Internet
Banking will have a new look with some of the jigsaw pieces slowly falling into place. Almost all dealings between a customer and her bank will be possible with a basic handset and without accessing the Internet.
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Twitter Top Ten – 11/23/14: Our favorite tweets of the week
Here are our favorite Tweets of the week.
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Weekly Roundup, 11/22/14 – Going Postal: Is postal banking a key to financial inclusion?
The U.S. Postal Service is losing some $5 billion a year. Bank branches are closing throughout low-income and rural areas. Could both problems be solved by converting the Post Office into a bank? Many countries in the developed and developing world have already done it. We highlight two opinions on whether the U.S. should follow suit in this Roundup.
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At Echoing Green’s Inaugural Global Conference in Mumbai: With 400 million without electricity, you can’t talk in small numbers here
For the first time ever, Echoing Green’s annual Fellows conference – five days that bring together fellows from all over the world to collaborate and learn from each other – was not held in the U.S. Instead, it took place, in the words Cheryl Dorsey, president of the social finance and support organization, in Mumbai, India - the “exciting global center for social enterprise.”
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Access Bank, Airtel Team Up To Launch Nigeria’s Newest Mobile Money Service
Nigeria’s fourth largest bank, Access Bank Plc, has signed a deal with Airtel Nigeria that will see its mobile money service run on the network of the mobile operator. The collaboration is aimed at boosting financial inclusion in the country.
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Africa’s Mobile Money Makes its Way to Europe with M-Pesa
Snapchat may be the latest application with a new mobile payment feature launched this week, but the idea that made Snapcash possible was spawned more than seven years ago in Africa.
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Tanzania Leads Africa in Financial Inclusion
TANZANIA is the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa and ninth globally for demonstrating most conducive environments for financial inclusion, according to the new Global Microscope 2014 by The Economist Intelligence Unit.
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