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Press release: Telenor Microfinance Bank and Mastercard to boost cashless payments in Pakistan
The innovative and cost-effective solution, which first went live in Pakistan in August 2016, makes it easy for customers to pay for purchases for a wide variety of goods and services.
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- Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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MetLife Foundation Partners with Kiva to Support Entrepreneurs and Build Financial Inclusion
MetLife Foundation has partnered with Kiva, a global non-governmental organization, to support entrepreneurs around the world through an employee engagement campaign. As part of this programme, a fully funded US$25 loan has been allocated to each of MetLife's 23,000 employees in Asia to help entrepreneurs start, sustain and grow their businesses.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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FINCA’s Journey from Non-Profit to For-Profit
For a company to make money, it helps if its employees have a money-making mindset. But that’s not what Roman Hingorani found when he joined FINCA International as its CFO in 2015.
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- Investing
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- North America
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Report: Record Number Of Indians With Bank Accounts. So Why Is Financial Inclusion Low?
Mumbai: Up to 80% of Indians now have a bank account, the same proportion that has a mobile phone, but financial inclusion levels are still among the world’s worst, lower than sub-Saharan Africa on some counts, according to a new report.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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Report: Mobile Money Driving Financial Inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, together with the Mastercard Foundation, have released a new report today, 16 May 2018 in Nairobi, documenting the transformation underway in financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Smart Campaign Reaches Milestone with 100 Certifications in Financial Consumer Protection
The Smart Campaign, the leading industry voice on financial consumer protection, housed at the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, announced today that 100 financial service providers (FSPs) have attained Smart Certification, a landmark achievement in responsible financial inclusion.
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- Finance
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Accounting For Impact Alongside Market Returns
The KL Felicitas Foundation, founded by impact investing pioneers Charly and Lisa Kleissner, has opened the books on its investments to show that a strategy aimed at doing good can live up to its social and environmental objectives as well as deliver returns.
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- Investing
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- North America
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- impact investing
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Impacting The Future: Ahmad Ashkar, Founder And CEO, Hult Prize Foundation
One of the refreshing aspects of my interview with the Hult Prize Foundation founder and CEO Ahmad Ashkar is that he comes across as someone who doesn’t believe in mincing words.
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- Health Care
- Region
- North America
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