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Crowdfunding and Climate Innovation: The Next Steps are in Funding Impact Investing
The future of Impact Investing and Crowdfunding was on display in Nairobi, Kenya last week.
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Mobile Money for the Unbanked
Mobile money and virtual currencies for cross border remittances: opportunity or risk?
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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“Charge the world, change the world.”
The campaign is on behalf of Schneider Electric, a French company with operations in more than 100 countries including the United States.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment
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Startup Spotlight : Specialty Telehealth Services
Specialty Telehealth Services (STS) integrates complex telehealth systems to produce positive health impacts. STS owns and operates a 24-hour Response Center providing teletrauma services and is also implementing a Latin American Telestroke Network.
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Financial Inclusion Gets to Lagos Slum
Sterling Bank’s recent extension of its financial services, through the agent banking model to Makoko, a slum area in Lagos, has attracted a lot of attention.
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In the Pacific, banks go branchless to reach the unbanked
Branchless banking, mobile banking, mobile “wallets”, innovations in financial services are seeing thousands of poor and low-income people use their mobile phones to enter the financial system for the first time; to open accounts, get paid, save money and begin to move out of poverty.
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In Nigeria, Accion disburses N22 billion in loans
Accion Microfinance Bank Limited has announced that the total amount of loans disbursed to customers since 2007 when it commenced operations currently stood at N21.7 billion.
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Microlender Kiva gets $3M grant from Google; Aims to tackle microfinance 2.0
Late last week Google’s philanthropic arm announced it had chosen to give online microlender Kiva a Global Impact Award, which comes with a grant of $3 million.
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