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Tableau pledges to donate $100M to help health, human-rights groups
Tableau Software will donate $100 million in technology resources and grants through 2025 to assist global health and equality organizations, increasing its foundation’s size significantly in its fifth year.
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- Health Care
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Report: Over 8 of 10 Small Banks, Microlenders and Co-Ops in the Philippines are Not Ready to Go Digital
“The dominant picture in our data is that majority of financial institutions are not yet ready to transform their business at this point, confirming anecdotal evidence long held by the industry,” wrote FINTQ in the report. “This conclusion indeed raises a notch higher the urgency in enabling financial institutions to be digitally ready, as the pattern uncovered in our data has profound implications on the country’s progress towards expanding financial inclusion in the countryside.”
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- Finance
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- Asia Pacific
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PayPal Invests In Emerging Markets Lending App Tala
Tala’s Android-based app analyzes device and behavioral data to instantly underwrite the consumers and create a loan offer.
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- Finance
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- fintech, mobile finance
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SEC launches a fintech hub called FinHub for Innovation and Financial Technology
The new portal will publish all the recent data from the SEC, and additionally, give a chance to start-ups to ask their very own inquiries and receive advice on the regulation of their venture.
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- Finance, Technology
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- North America
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Nobel winner Muhammad Yunus wants two financial systems—one for the rich and one for the poor
Last month, the 10-year-old US division of Grameen announced that it had provided more than $1 billion in loans to 106,000 women. Over the next decade, it plans to provide $1 billion in loans every year, and nearly double the number of branches, to 42.
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- Finance
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Press release: Tez Financial Services Becomes the First Pakistani Startup to Raise $1.1 Million in Seed Round Led by Omidyar Network
"Our aim is to become the primary financial service provider for the unbanked and underbanked in Pakistan," said Nadeem Hussain, co-founder and CEO of Tez, who has more than 30 years of experience in the global financial services industry.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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Africans Fear Trend Toward Taxes on Data, Mobile Money
The telecom companies say taxes on mobile payments introduced by a string of countries hurt their revenues and threaten much-needed investment in infrastructure.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press release: OPIC Commits $125 Million to Expand Access to Capital for Medium-Sized Companies in India
OPIC will contribute to a $700 million fund established by GPC to expand access to financing for growing companies in India operating in the healthcare, energy, technology, agricultural, and services sectors. By providing greater access to expansion capital, the OPIC-supported fund will help narrow the capital shortage that entrepreneurs and business owners face across India.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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