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mai 21, 2012 - 12:35pm
de Microfinance Nigeria
From Insurance in Nigeria
The rise and growth of microinsurance in developing parts of the world can play a central role in the empowerment of women, according to Mark Byrne, founder and chairman of investment vehicle Haverford.
Upwards of 80% of all microinsurance products have so far been distributed in favour of the male population in the developing world, but Mark Byrne, founder and chairman of investment vehicle Haverford, said developing and promoting ...
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mai 21, 2012 - 12:34pm
de Microfinance Africa
From Insurance in Nigeria
The rise and growth of microinsurance in developing parts of the world can play a central role in the empowerment of women, according to Mark Byrne, founder and chairman of investment vehicle Haverford.
Upwards of 80% of all microinsurance ...
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mai 21, 2012 - 12:00am
de Symbiotics Group Press Releases
Regmifa successfully attains the USD 50 million mark
reaching more than 112,000 borrowers, 91% of which micro-, small
and medium enterprises (MSMEs).
The Regional MSME Investment Fund for
Sub-Saharan Africa S.A., SICAV-SIF (REGMIFA) celebrates its second
anniversary with good performance results in 2011 and promising
prospects for 2012. Development Finance Institution (DFI) investors
have created a successful track record for crowding ...
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mai 17, 2012 - 12:47pm
de Microfinance Nigeria
By Favour Nnabugwu, Vanguard
National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, has condemned the expansion drive of the country’s insurance companies in foreign countries over and above their spread in the country, at the expense of the nation’s untapped market such as micro-insurance.
The commission was particularly peeved by those companies that cannot boast of 10 offices in Nigeria but have offices in other countries such as Rwanda, Ghana, Gambia, Cameroon, Uganda ...
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mai 16, 2012 - 12:47pm
de Microfinance Africa
By Favour Nnabugwu, Vanguard
National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, has condemned the expansion drive of the country’s insurance companies in foreign countries over and above their spread in the country, at the expense of the nation’s untapped market such as ...
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mai 14, 2012 - 7:31am
de Mambu Blog
Bonnes nouvelles, Mambu is now available in French! We’re happy to be able to expand our offering of microfinance software to the more than 200 million French speakers worldwide. This includes the estimated 115 million people across 31 francophone African countries including Algeria, Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Dijibouti, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, ...
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avril 16, 2012 - 10:58am
de Mobile Money for the Unbanked
First launched in Côte d’Ivoire in December 2008, Orange Money is also available in Senegal, Madagascar, Mali, Niger and Kenya, as well as in Botswana and Cameroon. It will soon be launched in Mauritius. Today, we publish the second and final part of our interview with Frederic Blehaut, Group Business Manager at Orange Money in which ...
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avril 8, 2012 - 5:15am
de MicroCapital
Advans SA, a microfinance investment vehicle managed by Horus Development Finance of France, has announced that it has opened the first branch of its fifth microfinance institution (MFI), Advans Cote d’Ivoire, in Abidjan, the capital of the country. The MFI, which had been in the planning stages since at least 2009, now offers credit to micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) as well as current accounts, savings accounts, term deposits and money transfer services. Loans will ...
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avril 5, 2012 - 1:48pm
de Microfinance Nigeria
Advans SA Press Release
Advans SA, the international venture capital company specialised in microfinance, is pleased to announce the opening of its fifth greenfield microfinance institution: Advans Côte d’Ivoire. The first branch opened its doors to the public on 14 March 2012 in Adjamé, Abidjan.
Advans Côte d’Ivoire is also proud to announce that IFC will join the shareholding of Advans Côte d’Ivoire through a capital increase of CFA 498.75 million (about ...
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avril 5, 2012 - 1:45pm
de Microfinance Africa
Advans SA Press Release
Advans SA, the international venture capital company specialised in microfinance, is pleased to announce the opening of its fifth greenfield microfinance institution: Advans Côte d’Ivoire. The first branch opened its doors to the public ...
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avril 3, 2012 - 6:49pm
de Kiva.org
Please join me in bidding a warm welcome to Kiva’s newest field partner, ACEP Cameroun!The Agence de Crédit pour l’Entreprise Privée au Cameroun (ACEP Cameroun) works to "contribute in an efficient way towards the fight against poverty through microcredit loans to micro-enterprises." In 2005, ACEP began operating independently of its co-founding organizations, the Cameroon Ministry of Industry & Economics and the French Agency for Development, and has since grown to serve ...
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mars 28, 2012 - 8:21pm
de Microfinance Africa
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mars 15, 2012 - 5:05am
de MicroCapital
The Agriculture Finance Support Facility (Agrifin), a US-based program of the World Bank, is co-funding a USD 2 million project of the Cameroon Cooperative Credit Union League (CamCCUL), a microfinance institution (MFI) and network of 208 credit unions, that is intended to improve the volume and profitability of agribusiness lending of its members. Agrifin has granted USD 1 million to the project, which will be launched on April 1.
As part of the project, CamCCUL will: (1) update ...
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mars 1, 2012 - 9:42pm
de Microfinance Nigeria
From International Fund for Agricultural Development
Rome — Strong rural organizations like producer groups and cooperatives are crucial to hunger and poverty reduction. They allow small producers to play a greater role in meeting growing food demand on local, national and international markets, while improving their own economic, social and political opportunities.
This thinking connects a series of case studies found in a new publication by the Food and ...
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mars 1, 2012 - 9:37pm
de Microfinance Africa
From International Fund for Agricultural Development
Rome — Strong rural organizations like producer groups and cooperatives are crucial to hunger and poverty reduction. They allow small producers to play a greater role in meeting growing food demand on local, national ...
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février 10, 2012 - 1:01pm
de Microfinance Nigeria
By Christopher Jator, Cameroon Tribune
Three heavily armed robbers, who also made away with FCFA 3 million, were picked up in New Bell early this week.
Armed robbers who broke into the microcredit institution, Agence Crédit Mutuel of BP Cité neighbourhood of Douala, in the night of January 26, 2012, and carted away with some three million FCFA have been arrested. Judicial police officers, who made the incursion, say most acts of mugging and burglary in the ...
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février 10, 2012 - 12:59pm
de Microfinance Africa
By Christopher Jator, Cameroon Tribune
Three heavily armed robbers, who also made away with FCFA 3 million, were picked up in New Bell early this week.
Armed robbers who broke into the microcredit institution, Agence Crédit Mutuel of BP Cité neighbourhood of Douala, in the night of ...
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février 4, 2012 - 10:00pm
de MicroCapital
Advans SA, a Luxembourg-based microfinance investment vehicle, has partnered with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a US-based member of the World Bank Group; KfW Bankengruppe, a German development bank; and Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappijvoor Ontwikkelingslanden NV (FMO), a Netherlands-based public-private development bank, to create a microfinance bank in Oyo State, Nigeria. The new organization, La Fayette Microfinance Bank, is slated to open during the fourth quarter ...
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janvier 21, 2012 - 3:10pm
de Microfinance Nigeria
By George D. Kennedy, Liberian Observer
The Microfinance Unit of the Central Bank of Liberia has clarified that the L$200 million Loan Extension Assistance Facility (LEAF) scheme launched recently by the CBL will not be implemented by any commercial bank.
According to Mr. Kolli S. Tamba, 11, head of CBL’s Microfinance Unit and senior Advisor-Multilateral Relations and Special Projects, the LEAF project will be implemented by the government of Liberia’s ...
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janvier 20, 2012 - 9:43am
de Mobile Money for the Unbanked
First launched in Côte d’Ivoire in December 2008, Orange Money is also available in Senegal, Madagascar, Mali, Niger and Kenya, as well as in Botswana and Cameroon. It will soon be launched in Mauritius. At the end of 2011, it reached an important threshold: 3 million customers in the eight countries where it is now offered, thus becoming one of the most powerful
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