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From the BoP Summit: Next Steps In Finance
Graham Macmillan has been on both sides of the social enterprise funding question. Before joining the Citi Foundation as senior program officer - financial inclusion, he served as senior director of VisionSpring. Macmillan carries the perspective of both of the donor/investor evaluating partnerships and deals, as well as that of a social entrepreneur with practical concerns like trying reach that all-elusive scale, making sustainable profits and securing investors.
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Citi Just Entered The Intensifying Wall Street Debate Surrounding Bitcoin
Bitcoin is starting to garner attention from some of Wall Street's top currency strategists.
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Mobile Payments Gain Traction Among India’s Poor
South Asia is a fertile market for the concept. The region consisting primarily of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan accounts for the largest number of offices actively providing mobile money services, 3.8 million compared with 805,000 in all of Africa and 1.8 million in East Asia and the Pacific.
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Give People Choices, Not Edicts
Over the past few years, many nations have adopted policies that promise to improve people’s lives while preserving their freedom of choice. These approaches, informed by behavioral economics, are sometimes called nudges.
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Has The SEC Made Equity Crowdfunding Economically Unfeasible?
It seems that The SEC has created a quagmire of complicated rules and economic roadblocks.
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Why many in SKS Microfinance Ltd love to hate its founder
Akula believes that microfinance is a core solution to global poverty and yet it could be highly profitable, a balance all microfinance entities are struggling to achieve.
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Mobile Money Movers – Part 1: A conversation with Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, Head of Strategy for Financial Services at Safaricom
M-Pesa is the world’s leading mobile money system, and one of the biggest success stories in the history of BoP business. Launched in Kenya by Safaricom in 2007, it’s now used by over two-thirds of Kenya’s adult population - and it is expanding to other countries in Africa and beyond. In Part 1 of our Mobile Money Movers series, Kyla Yeoman interviews Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, Head of Strategy for Financial Services at Safaricom.
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Microfinance empowering women in un-banked villages
Sa-Dhan, an umbrella of microfinance groups, hopes pending Bill will bring down interest rates.
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