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Mobile Banking Moves Ahead in Nigeria
As a result of the innovation in the Nigerian payment system, mobile phones have rapidly become a major medium for banking and payment for transactions, writes Nume Horsfall.
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Small business financing companies can play much bigger role in financial inclusion in India
For that, there is an immediate need for formation of an independent regulator to formulate framework for sustainable and better functioning of Small Business Financing Companies (SBFCs) that has been doing a wonderful work for promoting growth of small business in India, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha said.
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World Bank: Crowdfunding Investment Market to Hit $93 Billion by 2025
Crowdfunding has come a long way since 2008, when a group of UC Berkeley MBA students launched Indiegogo. It’s now a multibillion-dollar industry growing literally exponentially and worldwide
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Israeli hackers with a conscience
Tel Aviv hackathon aims to show that technology can help the world's poorest people - and make a profit.
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Big banks see rich opportunities in world’s poorest
When the Afghan government used mobile phones instead of cash to pay some of its policemen, the officers thought they'd just had a 30 percent pay rise. In truth, they had just been paid the full amount, with nothing skimmed off by middlemen, for the first time.
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Accion International urges India’s Reserve Bank to allow financial access to the physically disadvantaged
"People with disabilities should get financial access, organisation should not be discriminated against. The issues has to do with physical conditions and discrimination of specific conditions." - Accion International Managing Director
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bKash looks to dethrone M-PESA as the world’s top mobile finance provider
bKash Limited is looking to become the largest mobile banking service provider company in the world within the next few years, chief of the company said.
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Microfinance has failed in India: Jairam Ramesh
"Microfinance 1.0 has failed. It was not the miracle it was touted to be," said Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh at the HT Leadership Summit 2013 on Friday.
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