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Press Release: IFC and IIFL Home Finance Ltd. Partner to Boost Women’s Access to Affordable Housing Finance, Promote Green Homes in India
New funding will help increase access to housing finance among economically weaker sections (EWS) and low-income groups (LIG), including women borrowers in India.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Zanifu Raises $11.2 Million to Scale Its Inventory Financing Offering in Kenya
The fintech provides inventory credit to retailers, and the new funding will enable it to expand the solution to distributors too.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- distribution, financial inclusion, fintech, lending, MSMEs, scale, startups
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Mastercard Strive India Launches to Help Small Businesses Go Digital
Payments giant Mastercard has launched the Mastercard Strive India programme, which aims to help 500,000 small businesses in India go digital by 2025.
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- Agriculture, Finance, Technology
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- Global
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Paymentology and Mastercard Join Forces to Foster Financial Inclusion in Northern Central America
Mastercard has committed to bringing 5 million people and 1 million micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) into the digital economy.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Latin America
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Report: New Research from Financial Health Network Shows 90% of Working-Age People with Disabilities are Not Financially Healthy
Report also finds that 93% of people with disabilities are unfamiliar with ABLE Accounts, the primary tool offered by the government for building and maintaining assets without losing public benefits.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- North America
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Viewpoint: What Happened to the Microfinance Organization Kiva?
A group of strikers argue that the organization seems more focused on making money than creating change. Are they right?
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- Finance
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- Global
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Press Release: Novata and GIIN Partner to Simplify Impact Metric Collection for Investors
This move enables fund managers to collect, manage and analyze standardized impact data from companies.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Global
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Yunus Was Wrong — Savings, Not Credit, is a Human Right: Here’s How the Financial Inclusion Sector Can Shift its Focus
After playing a key role in the early development of the microfinance sector, Jeffrey Ashe went to Bosnia in the mid-1990s to consult on a new microfinance project. In those days, microcredit was widely viewed as a silver bullet that could end poverty, but while working in Bosnia, he learned that informal savings groups were already providing an effective alternative to formal loans in the local community. Ashe has spent the subsequent decades studying and supporting savings groups in countries around the world. He shares research that illuminates these groups' vast global impact, and argues that they could achieve far more if the financial inclusion sector supported them.
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- Finance
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