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Introducing the Mobile Money Regulatory Index
The Mobile Money Regulatory Index is intended to support dialogue between regulators and mobile money providers on reforms that can promote market growth. For the development community, the Index will help identify subject areas and markets where technical assistance to governments and regulators can have the biggest impact.
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- Finance
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This Singaporean Fintech Startup Introduced Mobile-based Microlending to Mongolia
Access to capital is difficult in emerging markets, especially for people without a long financial history, says AND Global co-founder.
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- Finance
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- Asia Pacific
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Accelerating the SDGs: How Digital Finance Can Ignite Faster Progress Toward the Global Goals
With 2030 gradually drawing nearer, how can the world accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals? Global leaders discussed that question at the United Nations General Assembly last week, and according to Ruth Goodwin-Groen at the U.N.-based Better Than Cash Alliance, digital financial inclusion is emerging as a key answer. She discusses how digital financial services can be an important part of the solution for critical issues like hunger, health and climate change – and profiles a few of the growing number of governments and companies that are leading by example.
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- Finance
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PayPal And Village Capital On Financial Inclusion’s Data-Driven Future
When venture development organization Village Capital and PayPal look at the ever-expanding troves of data out there (financial data in particular), they see a special potential. All those financial data streams, according to Village Capital’s Managing Director Allie Burns, look an awful lot like the next great tool to be enlisted in the fight to expand financial inclusion in the U.S. and around the world.
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- Finance
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- data, financial inclusion, fintech, startups
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FinTech Firm Prodigy Finance Gets R14 Billion In Debt Financing
The FinTech firm started by three INSEAD MBA graduates who experienced the difficulties of financing an international degree first-hand is planning to use the capital to scale and expand the business into the US
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- Finance
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- fintech
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Press release: CGAP Launches Photo and Video Contest Theme for 2018: Financial Inclusion in Africa
This year CGAP is looking for original and compelling photographs and short videos that tell the story of how financial services empower poor people and communities in Africa. The region is a center for financial innovation -- home to M-Pesa, the mobile money service launched a decade ago now replicated across markets worldwide; host to vibrant FinTech and e-commerce companies; and to a growing off-grid sector that leverages digital finance.
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- Press release
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MTN Uganda and Mastercard diversify mobile money service
The launch of the virtual card that is known as MTN MoMocard will ensure MTN’s ability to provide its customers access to products and services previously a preserve of physical credit card holders while diversifying its mobile money portfolio.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech
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Press release: Advans Côte d’Ivoire, ESAF Small Finance Bank, and KMF announced as Finalists for European Microfinance Award on Financial Inclusion through Technology
After the announcement of the three finalists, the Luxembourg Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Romain Schneider said: “Technology provides immense opportunities in everyone’s lives, from rich countries to poor, from people in cities to those in remote villages. What we see from the three finalists of the European Microfinance Award this year is the enormous energy, creativity and innovation that has developed through the link between technology and financial inclusion”.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa