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Zimbabwe Launches Region’s First Women’s Bank
The bank is the first of its kind in the Sadc region and it will offer loans to women, youths and other small scale businesses.
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press release: New Report: Banks Increasingly Embrace Data to Reach Underserved Customers
The Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion (CFI) and the Institute of International Finance (IIF), with the support of MetLife Foundation, released a report that examines how new types of data and new data tools present an unprecedented opportunity for financial service providers to understand and serve clients—particularly credit-seeking, "thin-file" clients who are otherwise excluded from the formal financial sector.
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- data, financial inclusion
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Report: India’s Digital Leap to Have Substantial Social Impact – But Data Privacy is a Key Risk
According to the global financial services major, India's digital leap will have substantial social impact across four key areas.
- Categories
- Finance, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
- Tags
- agtech, data, financial inclusion
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Press release: SmartPesa announces ICO for new Blockchain solution that provides secure credit scoring data for SMEs
Accounting for 90% of companies, SMEs in emerging markets act as key drivers of economic development and generate nine out of 10 jobs. But 40% of these companies lack access to credit, creating an annual funding gap of $5.2 trillion. SmartPesa Credible is built using Blockchain technology to provide credible Know Your Customer (KYC) information, self-declared business data and cash flow statistics on a transparent, distributed and auditable platform.
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- Finance
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Tanzania: New Data Initiative to Boost Tanzania Financial Inclusion
Under the partnership known as 'DataDisrupt' project, financial services providers will be provided with the opportunity to use evidence generated from internal and external data sources to innovate and deliver affordable financial products and services that respond to the needs of their customers.
- Categories
- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Are Impact Bonds and Outcome Funds a Solution to the Global Learning Crisis?
A related and relatively new phenomenon, Outcome Funds for Education, may further help address issues of fragmentation and inequities in funding.
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- Education
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Financial inclusion makes big inroads into Myanmar
Myanmar has seen a significant increase in the numbers of adults with access to at least one formal financial services product, according to research presented on June 19 as part of the nationwide Making Access Possible (MAP) financial inclusion study.
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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PWYF launches Aid Transparency Index 2018
The Asian Development Bank tops the Index for the first time, with UNDP ranking second and the UK Department for International Development coming third.
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