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The Most Dangerous Man in Bitcoin Isn’t a Criminal
Preet Bharara tells the hotel ballroom full of bankers. "I could either come around, or you could just form a single-file line."
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Central Bank of Nigeria Approves Liquidation of 83 Microfinance Banks – NDIC
The Managing Director, Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation, Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim, on Tuesday said that the Central Bank of Nigeria had approved the liquidation of 83 licensed microfinance banks.
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Mapping Bhopal and Chandigarh: A social enterprise push for jobs, a non-profit culture looks toward business
In second in a series of articles provided by Villgro’s Unconvention|L team and Okapi Research, which are visiting nine tier III cities in India, Lina Sonne explores the potential of Bhopal and Chandigarh. Both cities have strong potential to build on their educational and NGO roots to emerge as regional social enterprise ecosystems hubs.
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College Credit: How U.S. university students are helping the underbanked build credit in their campus communities
In the U.S., good credit is a basic requirement for entrepreneurs and average consumers alike, and a lack of good credit is a major problem – especially for those with lower incomes. But while service providers are often reluctant to lend to the underbanked, college students across the country are filling the gap with campus microfinance institutions.
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IntelleGrow raises Rs 28 cr from Omdiyar Network, Dell
MUMBAI: Social sector-focused non-banking lender IntelleGrow today said it has raised Rs 28 crore from Omdiyar Network and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.
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The Skoll Foundation Announces Seven 2014 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship
The Skoll Foundation today announced the seven 2014 recipients of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
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Key Drivers of Financial Innovation in Zimbabwe
Financial innovation can be defined as the act of creating and then popularising new financial instruments, technologies, institutions, markets, processes and business models, including the new application of existing ideas in a different market context.
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Matching capital with ‘space’ in unlocking Nigeria’s microinsurance potential
Nigeria prepares to unlock its microinsurance potential given the country’s huge population of 170 million people and a demographic structure leaning towards the mass poor.
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