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MTN and Vanu partner to bring connectivity to rural Rwandans
MTN and Vanu have announced the integration of the two networks with an aim to extend MTN’s Network in rural areas which are currently unconnected in Rwanda.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India’s central bank wants to put a leash on the booming fintech sector
“Bringing fintech under the regulatory ambit should provide a level playing field and encourage financial innovations. In this context, the Reserve Bank (of India, RBI) is working on framing an appropriate response to the regulatory challenges posed by developments in fintech in India,” the central bank said in its Trend And Progress Of Banking In India report, released in December.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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- cryptocurrency, fintech, regulations
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Press release: Acumen America Makes Its First Financial Inclusion Investment Under New Partnership With Metlife Foundation
Acumen, the nonprofit global venture fund, today announced its first financial inclusion investment under its Acumen America portfolio. Launched in 2016, Acumen America invests in social enterprises addressing the problems of poverty in the United States with a focus on the sectors of health care, workforce development and financial inclusion.
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- North America
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Press release: Ulula Raises $1 Million in Seed Funding to Improve Labor Conditions in Global Supply Chains
Ulula, a software and analytics platform that equips companies with tools to monitor human rights risks, announced today it raised $1 million in private seed funding to expand its mobile platform that enables organizations to engage workers directly, in real time, across global supply chains.
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- Technology
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Bill Gates Says Private Sector Can Profit From Public Health
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants corporations to join its efforts in advancing public health, not just because it’s the right thing to do -- but because it can be lucrative too.
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- Health Care
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Opinion: What the debate about Safaricom dominance is really about
That Safaricom is dominant in the voice, data and mobile money markets is not really debatable. What is debatable is what the regulator plans to do about it.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IFC, Central Bank to Create Sri Lanka’s First National Strategy on Financial Inclusion
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is partnering with the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CB) to develop the country’s first National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS) to promote a more effective and efficient process to improve financial inclusion across Sri Lanka.
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- South Asia
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Press release: Wall Street Journal Financial Inclusion Challenge Returns for Fourth Year
The Challenge seeks entries from for-profit and nonprofit enterprises whose product or service is helping to improve the financial health of Americans, including their spending, borrowing, saving, investing and financial planning capabilities. These solutions must be innovative, scalable, sustainable and designed to have a positive social impact.
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- Uncategorized
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- North America
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