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MasterCard and Movistar Launch Peru’s First Mobile Money Service
With the goal of promoting financial and social inclusion in Peru, Movistar, in alliance with MasterCard, has announced the launch of “Your Mobile Money” (Tu Dinero Movil), the first electronic money service in Peru, which will offer users significant savings in their money transfers.
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- Latin America
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OPINION: Responsible Investors Needed in Weak Microfinance Markets
Four years have passed since the launch of the Principles for Investors in Inclusive Finance, a compact signed by 40 global investors in the Netherlands. The introduction to these principles states:
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Zambian MFIs Complain of Negative Impact of Bank of Zambia Interest Rates Limits
The decision by Bank of Zambia (BoZ) to limit interest rates that licenced non-banking financial institutions can charge customers had a negative effect on micro-finance institutions (MFIs) performance last year.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- lending, microfinance
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OPINION: Bitcoin: A Ponzi Scheme for Redistributing Wealth From One Libertarian to Another
If Bitcoin were a currency, it'd be the worst-performing one in the world, worse even than the Russian ruble.
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PRESS RELEASE: Unified Signal, Inc’s Mobile Wallet Software Solution Chosen to Launch Mobile Payments in Serbia
Unified Signal, Inc. (OTCQB: UNSI), a leading software system in the telecommunications and mobile payments industry, today announced that it has received approval from the Central Bank of Serbia to enable the country of Serbia with its 7+ million population with the company's innovative and secure mobile wallet technology. Once deployed, the technology will allow Serbian expats in the US to move money to people living in Serbia and vice versa. Money will be transferred in real time to the recipient and for a fraction of the cost of industry competitors. The system will also allow for all people living in Serbia to freely pay for goods and services using their mobile phone.
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- Europe & Eurasia
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What’s So Different About China’s Mobile Payments’ Ecosystem
There’s plenty of differences between the mobile commerce market in the U.S. and the mobile ecosystem seen in China.
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Helios Investment Partners raises US $1 billion African investment fund
Pan-African private investment firm Helios Investment Partners has raised over US$1 billion for a third Africa-focused fund, with the firm claiming the fund is the largest in existence dedicated to African private equity.
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PRESS RELEASE: Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) Names Amit Bouri as New CEO
New leadership seeks to usher in next phase of stakeholder mobilization and market innovation tomature the impact investing industry
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- Impact Assessment
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