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Premal Shah: Loans That Change Lives
An interview with former PayPal product manager Premal Shah, who today heads Kiva, a global microfinance organization.
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Crowdfunding: a New Danger for Inexperienced Investors?
Financial planners may soon have one more investment option to counsel clients about.
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Mobile money agents fortify shops to stem rising crime
An upsurge of crime targeting mobile money shops in Kenya has prompted operators to come up with new ways to ward off criminals.
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Bringing financial inclusion to the Horn of Africa
At present some 281,000 active subscribers use their mobile phones every day to transfer money, make purchases, pay bills, and buy airtime in Somaliland. That number is expected to increase to 400,000 by the end of 2014, says Adan Shire.
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Aavishkaar in list of top global impact investors
Two prestigious US universities have selected social venture capital firm Aavishkaar Venture Management Services and its flagship fund, Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund, as among the world's top global impact investors.
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Morgan Stanley Pledges $1 Billion in Sustainable Investing Push
The biggest U.S. banks have sought to combine their abilities of advising companies and allocating capital with socially minded pursuits in the wake of public outrage and government rescues resulting from the financial crisis
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SKS Microfinance poised to make a clean break from the past
If Vikram Akula, the disgraced founder of SKS Microfinance, is attempting a back-door entry into the company, then something in it is attractive again.
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International money transfers via mobile to exceed $10 billion by the end of the year
Juniper Research forecasts that nearly 400 million mobile phone users worldwide will use their handsets for mobile money transfer by 2018.
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