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More Than Just Good Advertising: Challenges and best practices in driving digital financial services adoption
Despite the large sums of money being poured into digital financial services around the world, enrollment and usage remain low. Few services reach those who need them most. Grameen Foundation researchers Emilia Klimiuk and Joel Muhumuza have studied why, and they share several tactics to drive adoption.
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MTN & Vodafone Interconnect Their Mobile Money Services
In a move focused at deepening financial inclusion in East Africa, MTN and Vodafone have agreed to intersect their mobile money services.
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IFC, MasterCard in $250M Risk Sharing Pact to Drive Financial Inclusion
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, and MasterCard have signed an agreement to establish a risk-sharing facility, which is expected to provide millions of people in emerging markets access to electronic payments, a crucial next step in their ongoing collaboration to increase universal financial access by 2020.
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Report: India’s Microfinance Sector Poised to Grow Robustly in Next Five Years
The microfinance sector, which is seen as a vehicle of financial inclusion, has seen a boom over the past year as government has laid more emphasis on financial inclusion. The sector is expected to grow robustly in the next few years as large players consolidate their position in their market.
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Visa’s Plan to Connect 500M to Financial Mainstream
Visa’s CEO Charles Scharf has got a plan to connect half a billion additional consumers to the financial mainstream in the next five years.
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Twitter Top Ten
A new treasure trove of financial inclusion data.
A significant milestone for the B Corp movement.
And to coincide with tax day in the U.S., a handy guide on where to donate - and a thought-provoking post on the surprising way America’s tax system benefits the poor. These are just a few of the highlights of this week’s Twitter Top 10.- Categories
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Bamboo Finance Announces the First Close of Financial Inclusion Fund II
Bamboo Finance, a private equity firm specializing in investing in business models that benefit low-income communities in growth markets, today announced the first close of $31 million in its second financial inclusion focused fund with investments from Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA-CREF) and AXA-IM.
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MasterCard to Collaborate With the Alliance for Financial Inclusion
Today, MasterCard and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) signed a strategic partnership agreement that will enable a close collaboration within AFI’s Public-Private Dialogue Platform (PPD).
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