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Improving Financial Services for Indonesia’s Underserved
Financial inclusion is about reaching out to the poor and vulnerable in ways that allow them to take part in the world of financial services either for saving or getting credit. There are at least three ways to do this.
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PRESS RELEASE: Innovative Collaboration Aims to Bring Greater Transparency to Sub-Saharan Microfinance
Aiming to bring greater transparency to microfinance across Sub-Saharan Africa, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), The MasterCard Foundation and Moody’s Analytics have launched an innovative collaboration to use Moody’s Analytics’ social performance assessments (SPA) to help microfinance institutions better measure and manage their long-term social impact.
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Rental America: Why the poor pay $4,150 for a $1,500 sofa
No credit, no cash, no bank account? There’s still a place to go shopping, but it comes at a price.
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Here’s why emerging markets are a challenge for Apple Pay
Apple Pay could certainly be the nail in the wallet’s coffin, similar to what the iTunes model was for music when it was introduced in 2001. And this on the heels of the Twitter “buy” button, another move by a major tech titan to occupy the payments space via a mobile device.
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Uganda: Why Do Customers Fear Banks?
In Uganda, many point to the success of mobile money in improving financial inclusion by promoting peer-to-peer money transfer.
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Kenyan mobile money agents apprehensive of new Equity Bank service
Mobile money agents in Kenya fear loss of business once a banking institution rolls out a cheaper cash transfer service.
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The Other Digital Currency: Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin get all the attention, but using airtime as currency could play a vital role in developing the digital finance ecosystem
Mobile money’s origins lie in the practice of sending airtime instead of money. And today, the use of airtime as currency endures in markets where mobile money has failed to flourish - or when it is simply more convenient than mobile money services. Mondato’s Chris Connolly explores the benefits and risks of the practice.
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Blockchain Ideas Get Play at IMF Panel
Financial inclusion has become a long overdue buzzword among aid agencies and international economic policymakers of late – and it’s opening the door for bitcoin and blockchain technology to become a part of the discussion among international policymakers.
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