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NexThought Monday – Innovation Overkill: Why product innovation in financial inclusion isn’t always the right move
All the renewed talk about product innovation and a client-centric approach in financial inclusion may overlook two important points, says MicroSave’s Graham Wright. First, there are important differences between market leaders and followers. And second, moving through the product development continuum isn’t easy. For some companies, he suggests, it’s better to copy than to innovate.
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Skoll Centre Venture Award winners: Tree-planting Quad-Copters and Farmers’ Transport Logistics
Two new social ventures with founding teams from the University of Oxford have been chosen to receive this year’s Skoll Centre Venture Awards. The winners are Biocarbon Engineering, focusing on replanting one billion trees annually through the use of quad-copter technology, and Linkage, which aims to help smallholder farmers in Kenya to improve their selling practises and supply chain using an Uber-like logistics and transport system.
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Technoserve releases annual report highlighting progress on five-year strategic plan
We work with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses and industries.
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OPINION: Social Impact Bonds: Phantom of the Nonprofit Sector
What issue could bring Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Senator Al Franken (D-MN) into bipartisan partnership? Social impact bonds (SIBs)—or pay-for-success (PFS), depending on one’s preferred terminology.
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Payment banks to be new revenue stream for India’s telcos
Analysts expect all telcos to join the race; a liberal policy could boost revenues by 7-8% for the sector
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PRESS RELEASE: President Peña Nieto of Mexico Expected to Attend 17th Microcredit Summit
The Microcredit Summit Campaign announced today that President Enrique Peña Nieto is expected to join the delegates of the 17th Microcredit Summit on September 3, 2014, in Merida, Mexico.
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IBM, Monitise targets financial sector with mobile money solution in Kenya
IBM and Monitise have announced a global alliance to deliver cloud-based mobile commerce solutions to help financial services institutions embrace the mobile channel and better engage with customers.
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Chinese microcredit firms lend around USD $10 billion in first half of 2014
BEIJING, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Microcredit companies in China issued 61.8 billion yuan (about 10 billion U.S. dollars) of new loans in the first half of 2014, industry figures showed on Wednesday.
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