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‘It is Time to Rethink Microfinance’: Exploring a Sector in Transition in the Asia Pacific Region
The Asia Pacific microfinance sector is changing. Its MFIs have seen rampant growth, and the enterprises they serve have financing requirements that are growing more complex. In response, some MFIs are adapting their business models into different types of financial institutions, such as small banks. In short, the sector is evolving from a niche segment to a mainstream industry – with all the challenges and opportunities that implies. The Asia Pacific Microfinance Forum will discuss this evolution in Singapore on October 30-31, bringing together MFIs, NGOs, impact investors, entrepreneurs and others, all committed to building a better world.
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- Finance
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Report: Impact Investing in Latin America Remains Robust
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and LAVCA - The Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America reveal a growing industry marked by more refined investment strategies.
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- Press release
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- Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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- impact investing, microfinance, SDGs
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Press release: FINCA Impact Finance, MEF and BlueOrchard Announce USD 20 Million Loan Facility
The three-year revolving loan facility will enhance FIF's ability to manage liquidity throughout its network of 20 banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) and leverage the resources of MEF, an innovative provider of impact capital, and BOMF, the world's first and largest commercial microfinance investment fund.
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- Investing
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The Least Sexy Approach to Development: Why We Need to Focus on Systems Change
Even within the systems-change sector, people joke that it is one of the least “sexy” facets of development work. Focused on addressing the faults in social, economic and political systems that lead to problems like poverty, the approach can be overwhelmingly complex, which has limited its widespread implementation. But as Lexi Doolittle at S3IDF explains, a market-based approach that nudges these systems towards greater inclusivity and productivity is a vital tool to catalyze social change – one that we cannot afford to overlook.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise, Uncategorized
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Press release: FINCA International and USAID PACE launch FINCA Forward, a fintech innovation platform
Emerging fintech businesses are fundamentally transforming financial services, employing new data analysis solutions and digital delivery systems, in ways that can have substantial outcomes for the world's poor.
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- Finance
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Cambodia Has a Big Problem With Small Loans
Economists worry that at best the debt could put the brakes on economic growth, and at worst could fuel social unrest as inequality rises.
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- Asia Pacific
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- microfinance
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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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India looks to spread financial services via mobile app, quick loans portal
The Indian government has launched a web portal, a mobile application and a financial inclusion index in order to bring the country’s unbanked under the ambit of financial services industry.
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- Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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