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OPINION: Why I Think the Hype About Crowdfunding Is Too Good to Be True
There are inherent risks with every new business venture, but for many, crowdfunding simply has more risk than reward.
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New York Looks To Bring Bitcoin Out Of The Shadows
You can't put a bitcoin between your teeth, or fold a bit bill into origami. Unlike regular money, it has no physical form; it's computer code.
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Microfinance, macro risk
MFX supports lending to entrepreneurs in low-income countries by offering currency swaps and forward contracts to international micro, small, and medium enterprise lenders to offset the risk they take when lending in the local currency of their borrowers.
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(With Video) Maximizing the Micro Approach to BoP: A new book explores bottom-up solutions
Madhu Viswanathan believes “bottom up” methods are too often neglected when thinking about BoP business development. Viswanathan, a business professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, hopes to shift that imbalance in a new e-book, Subsistence Marketplaces.
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OPINION: Will Equity Crowdfunding Laws Be the Death of Kickstarter?
There have recently been some angry grumblings from the blogosphere about the government wanting to stick its fingers in the crowdfunding pie. The concern across the internet seems to be that new regulations will destroy the rapidly-growing crowdfunding industry that brought us the Pebble Watch and the Veronica Mars movie.
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OPINION: Payment banks could promote financial inclusion in India
Payment banks will be a bank in every respect except that it can’t lend, thus removing the risk of leverage.
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More mobile money choices for Zimbabweans
Competition is heating up in Zimbabwe’s mobile money space as telecom firms look to outwit each other in order to cash in.
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Quickteller supports cardless withdrawals for Nigerian mobile money users
Mobile money users in Nigeria can now make cash withdrawals from ATMs without a bank account or card, according to Interswitch Transnational, due to the ability of its Quickteller to power cardless ATM withdrawals.
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