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As our Twitter Top Ten "pilot feature" enters its fourth week, we’ve got a wide array of eye-catching tweets served up by NextBillion’s editorial staff.
Twitter Top Ten – 11-9-14: Our favorite tweets of the week
This week’s selections cover everything from entrepreneur-focused TED talks to Facebook and Ebola - along with plenty of maps.News
The GSMA today launched a Code of Conduct for Mobile Money Providers, outlining a series of common business principles to enable the development of safe and responsible digital financial services.
PRESS RELEASE: GSMA Introduces Code of Conduct for Mobile Money ProvidersBlog Post
Our "favorite tweets of the week" feature continues. Check it out. And help us out by keeping a close eye on your feed this coming week and tweeting your favorites our way.
Twitter Top Ten – 11-2-14: Our favorite tweets of the weekBlog Post
Prepaid debit cards are booming in the U.S., with consumers loading over $64 billion onto them in 2012. But due to regulatory uncertainty, there’s widespread confusion about their fees and terms. To address this, Visa is creating a special designation for cards that meet a set of consumer-friendly standards. We spoke with Cecilia Frew, Visa’s Head of U.S. Prepaid, about the product.
Prepaid Protections: An interview with Cecilia Frew, Head of U.S. Prepaid at VisaBlog Post
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted its Grand Challenges Annual Meeting last week and announced three new challenges ... with a twist. Going forward, applicants will be required to partner with manufacturers, biomedical companies or others with expertise in product development before Gates will fund a project.
Gates Foundation Alters Course in Pursuit of Breakthroughs: New Grand Challenges reflect that innovation and scale go hand in handNews
Jakarta – Indonesia has a far greater number of smokers and mobile phone users than bank account holders, according to the Director General of Bank Mandiri, Budi Gunadi Sadikin.
Indonesia Has More Smokers Than Bank Account HoldersBlog Post
The idea of smaller emerging companies matching initiatives from larger companies might seem counter-intuitive at first glance. But a study of dozens of inclusive businesses challenges the assumption that large companies are by definition the best route to scale at the BoP.
Does Size Matter?: Study finds emerging companies are doing just as well as large, established counterparts when it comes to reaching BoP beneficiariesBlog Post
While working to understand the experiences of clients suffering from severe over-indebtedness in the U.S., EA Consultants began to consider patterns that have emerged in lesser-developed countries. Barbara Magnoni, EA Consultants’ president, discusses their research and its implications for microfinance.
Red Flags: Over-indebtedness is the yang to microcredit’s yin
