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Singapore Inks FinTech, Blockchain Pact with Indian State Government
Today’s agreement will also foster engagements between FinTech startups in Singapore and Maharashtra, which sees Mumbai as its state capital. A FinTech-based curriculum developed for educational programs in the Indian state are also being considered.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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- blockchain, fintech
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Launch of the 2017 State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money
With 690 million registered accounts worldwide, mobile money has evolved into the leading payment platform for the digital economy in many emerging markets.
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- Finance
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- digital finance, fintech
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Report: Blockchain, AI to shape fintech’s future
The report highlights emerging products and services, technology-enabled sub-segments, new business models, and innovations that are set to disrupt the industry.
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- Finance, Technology
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Press release: Accion and MetLife Foundation Announce Expanded Partnership to Advance Financial Inclusion
MetLife Foundation provides $5.4 million to Accion for programs in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Asia to leverage digital solutions to enhance underserved customers' financial capabilities and engagement
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- Finance
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Press release: ImpactAssets Releases Seventh Annual IA 50 Impact Investment Fund Showcase
ImpactAssets has released its 2017-18 ImpactAssets 50 (IA 50), a free, online database for investors and financial advisors that features a diversified listing of 50 private capital fund managers that deliver social and environmental impact as well as financial returns. IA 50 users can sort and filter across a range of asset classes (debt, private equity and real estate), geographies, size of funds, themes and more.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Report: Africa’s mobile money operators lean towards regional interoperability
Although mobile money interoperability inside most African markets is staggered, mobile money platforms in East, West and Central Africa have opened up cross border mobile money transfers.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How responsible are India’s lenders? A new report has a few pointers
FPSB and IIM (Lucknow) unveils “Navigator of Responsible Lending- India”—a first-of-its-kind research report on consumer loans that maps major banks and NBFCs across small-ticket personal and consumer durable loans
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- South Asia
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- lending
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Kenya won’t force a spin-off of the world’s leading mobile money service after all
Almost exactly a year ago, a report from an independent consultant to Kenya’s telecoms regulator, sparked uproar and panic. It recommended the government look into breaking up the dominant mobile operator Safaricom by spinning off the even more dominant mobile money service, M-Pesa.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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