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FEATURED EVENT: Mobile Money: Technology to Transform Transactions
What if anybody with a phone could send and receive money? What if mobile money agent services could be crowd-sourced? And what if every mobile phone came with a full suite of financial services? These aspirations, and the challenges that accompany them, will be the focus of Mobile Money: Technology to Transform Transactions, a two-day conference on Sept. 19th and 20th, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Making Financial Inclusion a Global Reality by 2020: Financial Inclusion 2020 invites nominations for the Global Forum, Oct. 28-30, 2013
Financial Inclusion 2020 (FI2020) is building a movement that mobilizes stakeholders around the world to achieve financial inclusion by 2020. To help map an action agenda for achieving that goal, the project is organizing the Global Forum on Oct. 28-30, 2013 in London. It has a very limited number of seats available, but is accepting nominations for senior executives and thought leaders to attend.
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Financial Inclusion is an Opportunity: BR Shetty
The chairman of the UAE Exchange wants to improve financial literacy among those in the bottom of the economic pyramid
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Financial inclusion gap: Some progress, but wide disparities remain
Despite increased attention on the need to bridge the global financial inclusion gap, much of the adult population in the developing world still does not have bank accounts. Many do not have convenient access to traditional financial services either. But the gap is decreasing, a recently released report on financial inclusion finds.
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The 2013 Microfinance Barometer: Who will serve the next billion clients?
2.5 billion people lack access to financial services globally. The 2013 Microfinance Barometer contrasts this need with an overview of the institutions currently serving the sector. Based on data from 1,400 institutions reaching 94 million clients, the report shows a diverse, established microfinance sector - and points to the need for more models to bring financial services to the next billion clients.
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A Bank for Banks: Indonesia’s Bank Andara grows micro-businesses and turns a profit
Indonesia has millions of micro-entrepreneurs and thousands of micro-finance institutions. But most lack capital and established systems, and can only provide bare-bones services to small client bases. Enter Bank Andara, a wholesale commercial bank exclusively dedicated to serving the Indonesian micro-finance sector.
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Cathy Pharoah: Hail to the Social Stock Exchange
It's a rallying cry to the business world, but will sharpen the challenges that charities face, writes our columnist
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Global Movement of the Vulnerable Class, and What it Means for Financial Inclusion
In 2010, the bottom 40 percent of the populations, in low and middle-income economies constituted a market of $3 trillion. By the end of the decade, the real spending power of this market will nearly double, to $5.8 trillion. A new report from the Center for Financial Inclusion, "Growing Income, Growing Inclusion,” charts an encouraging course.
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