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Why Insurance Matters: Announcing the European Microfinance Award 2025 on ‘Building Resilience Through Inclusive Insurance’
Insurance is a hard sell, especially among low-income populations. Yet as Sam Mendelson at e-MFP, and Matthew Genazzini and Asier Achutegui at the Microinsurance Network argue, affordable and tailored insurance products are essential to ensuring economic security and resilience in vulnerable communities. They explore the challenges and opportunities in offering insurance products to low-income customers, and announce the launch of the European Microfinance Award 2025, which will focus on “Building Resilience Through Inclusive Insurance.”
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BII Provides $100 Million Towards Green Investments and Financial Inclusion in Africa
The funding aims to drive sustainable growth by facilitating lending to climate-related projects and women-led enterprises, expanding financial inclusion, and helping to close the region’s $42bn gender financing gap.
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- Energy, Environment, Finance, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Summit Africa Launches Private Equity Fund II With US $20 Million Anchor Commitment From British International Investment, Supporting Businesses in South Africa and the Southern African Region
The fund will drive financial and digital inclusion, job creation, diversity, and food security as a new sector, through investment in small-to-mid market companies.
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- Investing
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- Global
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Press Release: Triple Jump Receives EIB Financial Inclusion Grant to Support Oxfam Novib Investees’ Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa
Triple Jump and ONF will support up to six microfinance institutions (MFIs) with the fund they from Financial Inclusion Fund (FIF).
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- Finance
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M-PESA Safaricom, Dashen Bank & CashGo Partner to Enhance Remittances in Ethiopia
M-PESA, Dashen Bank, and CashGo launch a seamless international remittance service, enabling Ethiopians to receive money instantly into mobile wallets.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IDB Invest and BBVA Peru Announce the First International Private Issue of a Social Bond to Support Women Entrepreneurs
The deal seeks to expand financing for women-owned micro and small enterprises in Peru.
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- Finance
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- Latin America
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OPEC Fund Arranges $50 Million Syndicated Loan Facility to Promote Access to Finance for SMEs in Paraguay
The funding will support Banco Continental’s efforts to expand lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and to support the agricultural sector.
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- Agriculture, Finance
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- Latin America
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CreditChek Partners With CredPal to Expand Credit Access Across Africa
CreditChek is positioning itself at the forefront of transforming credit access across Africa.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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