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Nigeria’s Bank of Industry partners Gates Foundation, CGAP on financial inclusion
The Bank of Industry (BoI), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) have gone into partnership to deepen financial inclusion and poverty eradication in Nigeria.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tanzania: Government Unveils 10-Year National Microfinance Plan
The Vice-President noted the implementation of the National Microfinance Policy would enable the low income population which was excluded from financial services to begin benefiting from the services.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Google Tez sees early success in India
It already has more than 7.5 million users, and has seen more than 30 million transactions since its launch in September. But it's no surprise that Google's seen early success in India.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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- digital payments, fintech
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Report: Millennials Are Interested in Social Investing, But Have Not Started
Released last Monday, the study found that 54% of millennial investors say that they are not investing in socially conscious options, but have plans to do so in the future.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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MTN Ghana sanctions 3,000 agents for mobile money fraud
In an interview on the sidelines of a media encounter with the Journalists for Business Advocacy (JBA) in Accra on Thursday, the Senior Manager for Anti-money Laundering, Compliance and Analytics at MTN Mobile Money, Mr Godwin Tamakloe, said some of the agents were currently being processed for prosecution.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Shift to innovative financing necessary to achieve 2030 SDGs
“It is imperative to implement innovations that can divert private capital toward development objectives to help bridge the SDG financing gap,” UN Undersecretary-General and Executive Secretary of Escap Shamshad Akhtar said.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- global development, SDGs
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Safaricom CEO takes medical leave for ‘number of months’
Company chairman Nicholas Ng’ang’a made the announcement in a circular to employees, but did not disclose the nature of Mr Collymore’s sickness.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Canada, Europe Lead List of Most Responsible Asset Allocators
The recently released Bretton Woods II Leaders list of the 25 “most responsible” asset allocators was culled from among hundreds of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and government pension funds (GPFs) representing more than $20 trillion in assets under management.
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- Investing
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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- ESG, impact investing
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