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Impact Investing – A New Player in Protecting Human Rights?
This form of investing channel funds privately to vulnerable segments of the population in need, and it complements welfare and social protection programs by the public sector, as well as other innovations in financing development, such as community banking, microfinance, and mobile banking.
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Africa Tops 500m Mobile Users, Adds $150bn To Continent’s Economy
Africa now has half a billion mobile users, and the mobile ecosystem added $153-billion to the African economy in 2015, according to a new GSMA study, which predicts smartphone numbers will triple in the next five years.
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In 7 years, cash will no longer be king for most Indians
In the next seven years, cashless or digital transactions will overtake cash transactions in India — the world’s fastest-growing internet economy — which hopes to add over 300 million internet users by 2020.
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Mobile Money Meets Microcredit: Creating an Evidence-Based Cross-Sell Strategy
Financial institutions serving low-income communities regularly turn to cross-selling to engage clients. But they don't always consider the particular needs of clients themselves. Based on its research on cross-sell initiatives, Bankable Frontier Associates explores what it takes to enhance clients’ engagement and encourage them to actively use multiple products with an institution over time.
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The Power of Partnerships: Why They Can Be the Key to Reaching the Unbanked
In a world of rapid change, few organizations have all the capabilities needed to accomplish every aspect of their business - something that's clearly true for commercial banks. That's why financial institutions often find success in adapting to new opportunities through partnering. In a new publication, the Center for Financial Inclusion explores how banks use partners to adopt new technologies and reach previously underserved markets.
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Zimbabwe to formalize microinsurance firms
ZIMBABWE is working on a framework to regulate and formalise operations of microinsurance firms targeting low income earners, the Insurance and Pensions Commission said. Microinsurance has been identified as a critical instrument for delivering effective and efficient insurance services and products as well as promoting financial inclusion.
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IFMR Investment Managers raises $15 million debt fund targeting microfinance firms
Chennai-based IFMR Investment Managers, a wholly owned subsidiary of IFMR Capital, is raising a Rs 100 crore (around $ 15 million) debt fund to invest in the microfinance businesses.
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10 new VC investors who are upbeat on Indian start-ups
The venture capital gold rush to India that began with Tiger Global Management’s purchase of a slice of Flipkart in 2010 ebbed five years later, ending in cash crunch, valuation cuts and many shutdowns in India’s start-up landscape.
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