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India’s SKS Microfinance Posts First Full Year of Profit Since Andhra Pradesh Crisis
SKS Microfinance Ltd has posted its first full year of profit after its business took a beating due to the microfinance crisis in Andhra Pradesh.
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- Environment
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- South Asia
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- lending, microfinance
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PRESS RELEASE: So-Fi Peer-to-Peer Lender Surpasses Half a Billion Dollars in Student Loans Funded
SoFi has streamlined the lending process with a pain-free online application, mobile document upload, and helpful customer service via text, email, or phone.
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- Education
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- lending
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How Zidisha Sidestepped Banks and Took Microfinancing Peer-to-Peer
Microfinancing platform Zidisha is changing the way microlending works. By cutting out the middle man, they have drastically reduced interest rates for borrowers in the developing world.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- lending, microfinance
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Jamaica Micro Financing Association Urges Microfinancers to Lend to SMEs
Chairman the Jamaica Micro Financing Association (JaMFA) Hurshel Cyrus has challenged his colleagues to increase funding to the micro, small and medium-sized (MSME) sector.
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- lending, microfinance
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Kenya: Have an Unpaid Water Bill? Kiss Getting Loans Goodbye
If you fail to pay your water, electricity or telephone bills, you will find it very difficult to borrow money from any financial institution.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- lending
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OPINION: How to Keep the Asian Development Bank Relevant in a Changing Asia
If any economist had said when the Asian Development Bank was founded, that in just 45 years China would become the world's second-largest economy and India the fourth in terms of purchasing power parity, he would have been dismissed.
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- Environment, Technology
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- South Asia
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- lending
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March’s Most-Popular Posts on NextBillion
Three posts, each advocating constructive and concrete steps for expanding the umbrella of financial inclusion to even more people, were the most-read articles on NextBillion in March.
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PRESS RELEASE: Social Lenders Join Forces to Develop Industry Standards, Best Practices for Smallholder Agricultural Finance
The alliance of social lending institutions, also referred to as impact-first agricultural lenders, was formally launched today at the 11th Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.
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- Agriculture
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