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There’s plenty of differences between the mobile commerce market in the U.S. and the mobile ecosystem seen in China.
What’s So Different About China’s Mobile Payments’ EcosystemNews
Global security services provider Kaspersky Lab has presented an overview of general threats in 2015, as well as that which is expected to dominate Kenya's threat landscape. The Company explains why there can be no respite for being vigilant.
Kenya Warned of Risks of Cybercrime Targeting Online and Mobile BankingBlog Post
With the digitization of finance, lenders now have an unforgiving memory of poor people´s formal debt repayments, while knowing little else of any real significance about them. According to Ignacio Mas and David Porteous, this can become the basis for financial exclusion, denying even responsible borrowers access to credit. They propose some alternative pathways to financial inclusion in a new paper.
Credit for the People, by the People: Three pathways to smarter financial inclusionNews
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), a multilateral development finance institution based in the Philippines, has recently approved a loan of up to USD 200 million to Yes Bank Limited, an Indian commercial bank based in Mumbai. The loan will be on-lent to “2.5 million rural, low income women”[1] who are members of self-help groups and “up to 37,000 small-scale farmers”[1] working in rural areas of the country. The loan agreement also includes a provision for USD 1 million to be used for technical assistance for capacity building, including financial literacy training and product development.
PRESS RELEASE: Asian Development Bank Loans $200m to Yes Bank of India to Fund Women’s Self-Help Groups, Small FarmersNews
As the New Year gets underway, we could conjure up a list of "top trends" in philanthropy for 2015 or make a bunch of predictions that we would probably regret twelve months from now, along with all the junk we ate over the holidays.
28 Philanthropy Issues to Watch in 2015News
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that two promising Ebola vaccines appear safe and could soon be tested in West Africa, as the agency wrapped up an expert meeting in Geneva earlier today.
Two Leading Ebola Vaccines Show ‘Acceptable Safety’Blog Post
We returned from the holidays last week, and so did many of you - at least if Twitter is any indicator. Not that Twitter ever sleeps, but it can sometimes seem like it takes a nap or two during the holiday period.
Twitter Top Ten 1-11-15Blog Post
With Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) moving into the mainstream of the development industry, it’s time for NGOs to start documenting their programs in deeper ways. One way to do that, according to Semilla Nueva, is to localize the process.
Who Asks the Question May be as Important as the Question Itself: When the surveyed become the surveyors, monitoring and evaluation becomes localized
