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As the explosive growth of mobile financial services (MFS) reshapes economies around the world, the Mondato Summit Asia brought an impressive line-up of speakers and panelists from all parts of the ecosystem to explore the next generation of MFS in Southeast Asia. Chris Connolly delivers some highlights - and tweets - from the recent conference.
It’s About Launching Ecosystems, Not Just Products: Insights on the next generation of mobile financial services from the Mondato Summit AsiaNews
A new law permitting non-bank for-profit lending institutions may unleash a revolution in microfinance by allowing more actors and innovators to get involved.
Finance: Egypt’s Small Borrowers Have Big PotentialNews
One of the biggest private foundations in the world just took a step toward becoming more open with the research it funds.
New Policy Could Unlock the Gates Foundation, Bring Transparency to ResearchBlog Post
African countries are not data-rich environments but, because of high mobile phone use, they could be. And that data could be used to track, among other things, importation routes for infectious disease, patterns of migration or economic transactions.
NexThought Monday – Unlocking Mobile Data: Regulatory and privacy issues prevent metadata use from realizing its full potentialNews
While insurance penetration in general remains low, micro-insurance has seen significant growth as more banks partner with insurance firms to offer micro-insurance products to low-income earners.
Micro-insurance On the Up Among Insurers and PublicBlog Post
Here are our favorite Tweets of the week.
Twitter Top Ten – 11/23/14: Our favorite tweets of the weekBlog Post
The U.S. Postal Service is losing some $5 billion a year. Bank branches are closing throughout low-income and rural areas. Could both problems be solved by converting the Post Office into a bank? Many countries in the developed and developing world have already done it. We highlight two opinions on whether the U.S. should follow suit in this Roundup.
Weekly Roundup, 11/22/14 – Going Postal: Is postal banking a key to financial inclusion?Blog Post
In its latest report, Shared Prosperity through Inclusive Business: How Successful Companies Reach the Base of the Pyramid, the IFC summarizes practical lessons from clients that successfully reach low-income people as suppliers or customers. There are lessons for each phase of the value chain that can be adapted to the context of a particular sector or region.
Learning from What Works: IFC’s new report on inclusive business includes lessons for each phase of the value chain
