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Viewpoint: Designing financial products for women
Current financial service models conflate women with ‘family’, considering them merely an avenue to pursue social welfare.
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- Finance
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SoftBank and Singtel are leading a pre-IPO $1.25 billion investment in Africa’s No.2 mobile phone company
Money raised from going public, alongside some of the new funding, will go towards cutting down the company’s existing $5 billion debt.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Google touts 30 million monthly users for its mobile-payment platform in India
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has dominant positions in search, advertising and mobile devices, but the company has had to play from behind when it comes to mobile payments.
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- Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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Press release: Upaya Social Ventures Will Fund Its Next Investments from A Recoverable Grant Pool
Upaya Announced $2M to expand its job-creating investments, including an innovative $1M Pool of Recoverable Grants that will be used to fund its next investments; the first term sheet has been presented to an agribusiness enterprise.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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Press release: OPIC Loan to Kiva Supports Almost 100,000 Microloans to Developing Country Borrowers
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) announced Thursday at the Social Capital Markets conference that its financing to Kiva Microfunds has supported 98,137 microloans to 207,227 small business borrowers, across 30 countries.
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- Investing
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- North America
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Report: Ban on Aadhaar linking may crimp growth of financial players in India
Last month, the Supreme Court had declared the government's flagship Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid but struck down some of its provisions including its linking with bank accounts, mobile phones and school admissions.
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- Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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Press release: ImpactAssets Expands Executive Leadership Team
Margret Trilli brings strategic and executive leadership to extend organizational excellence and drive continued growth toward a multi-billion-dollar impact investing platform; founder Tim Freundlich promoted to Chief Executive Officer to lead business innovation and field-building; Gabe DiClerico named CFO to elevate finance administration capability.
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- Investing
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Press release: OPIC Launches Venture Capital Program with Financing to India-focused Iron Pillar
New venture capital program to invest in later stage venture funds supporting developing economies.
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- Press release
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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