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Press release: Kora Gateway launches, bringing improved financial services to emerging markets
Kora, the largest blockchain project out of Africa, has launched a new wallet that aims to provide access to low cost financial services to populations that have historically had little to no access to them.
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- Inclusive Fintech
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Press release: Visa and Branch form micro-credit partnership
The loans will provide merchants with funds to grow their business through supplemental stock, infrastructure investment, and other key operational needs. Loans will be disbursed directly to the merchants’ phones.
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- Inclusive Fintech
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Press release: MicroVest Announces Investment in Pakistan’s Kashf Foundation
The investment furthers MicroVest’s commitment to make financial inclusion a reality in emerging economies through impact investing.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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India Post Payments Bank Launch Eyes Financial Inclusion
The financial institution (FI) is now reportedly set to open an additional 648 branches throughout the country this month. In fact, there will be at least one branch in every district.
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- South Asia
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How FinTech Firm MyBucks Plans To Offer Access And Financial Inclusion To Africa’s Unbanked
MyBucks has grown significantly since listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange two years ago, operating today in 13 countries.
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- Inclusive Fintech
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press release: BFA’S Catalyst Fund Initiative that Accelerates the Future of Fintech in Emerging Markets Reaches 20 “Inclusive Fintech” Companies
“Bank accounts and payment transfers are receiving a lot of attention and are growing in the number of subscribers, but they aren’t being used with the frequency that you’d expect,” said David del Ser, a Director at BFA. “We’re accelerating inclusive fintech companies whose solutions will achieve greater usage and help address the complete financial lives of these populations — there is great need and demand for these kinds of products and services in emerging markets.”
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- Inclusive Fintech
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Press release: IFC, Mastercard Foundation present key tool to expand digital financial inclusion
“Agent banking and mobile money have begun to transform the financial landscape in many African markets, and there is an increasing body of evidence to show that this has real, positive impact on people’s lives and livelihoods,” said Riadh Naouar.
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- Inclusive Fintech
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Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System targets 500,000 agents to boost financial inclusion
The Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc has relaunched an e-payment platform, mCASH, targeting 500,000 agents, in a bid to deepen financial inclusion in the country.
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- Inclusive Fintech
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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