-
First Microfinance Institutions in Latin America Certified for Strong Client Protection Practices
The Smart Campaign, a global initiative to incorporate strong client protection practices across the microfinance industry, announced the first three microfinance institutions in Latin America to become Client Protection Certified.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
- Region
- Latin America
- Tags
- microfinance
-
Small loans, big smiles in Mexico’s Oaxaca
A microfinance nonprofit offers tours to meet Mexican women in their small businesses — and your tour dollars go to new loans.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
- Region
- Latin America
- Tags
- microfinance
-
First-Ever Kiva U Summit Convenes Student Leaders and Educators Around Financial Inclusion
More than 150 college and high school student leaders and educators from around the world with an interest in critical issues around financial inclusion gathered for the first-ever Kiva U Summit.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Universal Financial Access Vital To Reducing Poverty, Says World Bank President Jim Yong Kim
Leaders at a major World Bank Group forum put forward a vision for achieving universal financial access by 2020.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Microfinance key to achieve MDGs–Nobel awardee
JUST like microcredit, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, said on Friday the banking system needs to be redesigned so it can provide everybody access to financial services.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
CBK proposals likely to end M-Pesa dominance
SAFARICOM'S Mpesa platform may soon be open for use by other mobile payment services providers if new regulations published by the Central Bank are effected. This could end the mobile company's dominance of the mobile money market which has locked many subscribers to its network.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Policy interventions go wrong
It is a classic case of a government policy going horribly wrong. It was intended to protect consumers' right, but it ended up hurting them the most. When the Andhra Pradesh government sought to restrict microfinance institutions' (MFI) activities in December 2010, it was with good intentions.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
- Tags
- microfinance
-
Bank of Jamaica Developing Agent Banking System to Reach the Unbanked
In pursuit of greater financial inclusion, the banking regulator plans to allow traditional banking institutions to partner with third parties to offer banking services, as agents. As much as a third of the Jamaican population are 'unbanked', that is they do not use or have limited access to the formal banking system.
- Categories
- Uncategorized