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Forget Banks: If Bitcoin Is Going To Change The World, Then This Is The Real Competition
A central conceit of Bitcoin evangelists is that the cryptocurrency could be most useful to "the global unbanked."
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Problems and Potential in Tanzania’s Mobile Money Ecosystem: Highlights from Helix’s Agent Network Accelerator survey
Tanzania has crafted an impressively successful ecosystem for mobile money, with a unique agent network system that can be used as a model for the rest of the world. But this network is also struggling with fraud, liquidity management issues and other challenges. The recent country report from the Helix Institute of Digital Finance provides insights into what’s working, and what isn’t.
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NexThought Monday – A Brazil Without Favelas is Possible
In spite of the R$ 134 billion allocated by Brazil´s government to Minha Casa, Minha Vida, there is very little conclusive data that enables us to examine the real social impact of the housing projects under its umbrella. Although it might appear to be unrealistic, Brazil desperately needs an ambitious vision to confront its housing disparity crisis.
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PRESS RELEASE: Accion to back new web-based lender focused on funding veteran-owned small businesses
WASHINGTON, May 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- StreetShares, Inc., a new web-based lending platform, announced this morning the close of a $1.2 million seed round led by Accion Venture Lab, a seed-stage investment initiative sponsored by microfinance pioneer Accion. The round also included Washington D.C.-area community bankers, military veteran investors, Harvard Business School angels and Capital One alumni.
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Indian microfinance bank Bandhan plans to open 600 branches
Microfinance outfit Bandhan Financial Services Ltd., which got a banking licence from the Reserve Bank of India on April 9, is planning to open around 600 branches, its Chairman and Managing Director Chandra Sekhar Ghosh said.
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BLOG: Momentum Builds for 100 Percent Impact Investment Movement
When I first started working in impact investing, the field's challenges were foundational: refining the concept, finding suitable investments, figuring out how to measure impact, even determining what to call the concept. Work in all those areas continues, but the field has matured to the point where it's on the agenda of the G8, finance conglomerates feel they need to have an impact product, and the mainstream business press is taking notice (if skeptically). N
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JP Morgan & GIIN survey highlights higher impact investment commitments
Widespread commitment to allocate 19% more capital to impact investments in 2014 compared to 2013 revealed by JP Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) survey.
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Opinion: ‘Wanted: inclusive business’
With more severe poverty and inequality to begin with, worsening unemployment and lack of significant improvement in reducing poverty and inequality negate our otherwise impressive economic growth performance of late.
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