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Survey: Kenya ranks highly in bridging mobile ownership gap
Overally, GSMA 2019 mobile gender gap report indicates that 80 per cent of women in low and middle-income countries are now mobile owners.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech
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Viewpoint: Here is Why Fintech Startups Should Invest in Cyber Insurance
Given the quality and quantity of data fintech startups deal with, they are more prone to a cyber-attack than any other industry.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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Mexico pushes mobile payments to help unbanked consumers ditch cash
It is planning a digital payments system run and built by the central bank that will allow Mexicans to make and receive payments through their smartphones free of charge. A pilot roll-out for the platform, known as CoDi, is expected by March.
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- Finance
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- Latin America
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Behind the numbers: Retail investors a growing force in sustainable funds
Ethical funds have been growing in popularity, with managers starting to address the demand
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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A stumbling block to growth trips up companies trying to do good
When established social enterprises do secure funding to support their growth it is not necessarily the end to their woes.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- philanthropy, scale
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Telecom companies in Uganda face legal battle on unclaimed Mobile Money balances
Gideon Tugume, the Executive Director of Human Rights Defenders – Uganda dragged the telecoms to court demanding that they submit all unclaimed Mobile Money and Airtime balances to the state. He says the money should be sent to the consolidated fund instead of reverting to the service provider.
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- Finance, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Increasing maturity’: PwC poll highlights growth of ESG and sustainable investing
Will Jackson-Moore, global private equity, real assets and sovereign fund leader at PwC, said the "really encouraging" poll results showed responsible investment was "starting to come of age in terms of driving sustainable business practice".
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Press release: OPIC Provides Initial Financing to SunFunder’s Solar Energy Transformation Fund to Expand Access to Beyond the Grid Solar
The Solar Energy Transformation Fund is one of a group of investment vehicles managed by SunFunder, a solar energy finance business with offices in the U.S., London and Nairobi working to scale up clean energy access in Africa and Asia by financing solar companies active in off-grid and weak-grid communities.
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