Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in India:
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May 17, 2013 - 6:45pm
from Reserve Bank of India Notifications
To
All Category-I Authorised Dealer Banks
Madam / Sir,
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India - Issue of equity shares under the FDI scheme allowed under the Government route against pre-operative/pre-incorporation expenses
Attention of Authorised Dealers ...
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May 17, 2013 - 10:03am
from MicroCapital
Oxigen, an India-based payment solutions provider, has announced a new mobile money transfer service called OxiCash, which is intended to provide poor people with a “mobile wallet” for receiving funds and transferring money between bank accounts. This reportedly is the first such product to be approved by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country’s central banking authority. The OxiCash money transfer service will be available both online and through mobile phones. “Mobile wallets” can ...
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May 17, 2013 - 9:20am
from MicroCapital
Event Name: 2013 Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF)
Event Date: October 2-4, 2013
Event Location: Telus Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Cost: Event registration costs CAD 595 (USD 584) before July 25, 2013, or CAD 695 (USD 682) after this date. Additional pricing options are available for opening ceremony, rodeo and receptions.
Event Summary: SEWF 2013 focuses on the challenges faced by social enterprises such as nonprofits, cooperatives and ...
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May 16, 2013 - 4:39pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Center Staff
“The old ideas have become akin to the sixteenth century assertion that the world was flat; yet it did gradually became established that the earth was round after all. Microfinance needs to be rounded too.” – Sanjay Sinha
Sanjay Sinha, founder of
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May 16, 2013 - 2:37pm
from Microfinance Africa
By Biswarup Gooptu, The Economic Times
BANGALORE: Many small-and ...
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May 16, 2013 - 2:13pm
from Accion Ambassadors
While most other “best of” lists usually hit the press around New Year’s, our calendar here at the Ambassadors Program is a bit different. With 16 new Ambassadors volunteers arriving at our Boston offices this Monday for their orientation training, we thought this week would be the perfect time to look back on some of the best posts from our 2012 Ambassador class.
1.) In ‘A company with a ...
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May 15, 2013 - 3:14pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Jeffrey Riecke, Communications Assistant, CFI
The flagship mobile money service M-Pesa launched in India last month. The service, which started in Kenya in 2007 and has since expanded to eight countries and 17 million users, will be conducted in India by way of a partnership between Vodafone, India’s second largest mobile ...
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May 15, 2013 - 1:58pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
In UN corridors you'll often hear frustrated diplomats whispering that the amount of process around an issue is inversely correlated to the likelihood of achieving anything on it.The process of replacing the UN's ...
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May 15, 2013 - 12:05pm
from MicroCapital
Accion, a US-based provider of microenterprise loans and business training in 31 countries, has announced that its Accion Venture Lab, which provides seed capital and management support to financial inclusion startups, has invested an aggregate of USD 10 million in five startup companies that deliver financial services to poor people around the globe. The companies include Mexico-based Salud Facil, which aims to help poor Mexicans pay for health care; India-based Varthana, which helps ...
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May 15, 2013 - 11:26am
from Mobile Money for the Unbanked
Food production and marketing systems are rapidly changing globally. This is due to several factors including increasing global population, high demand for food and environmental sustainability. As a result, the way and manner in which food is produced, transported and distributed is receiving greater attention than ever before. Increasingly, there are now more stringent requirements for food production either in the form of national, continental or international food production ...
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May 15, 2013 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
The Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX), a US-based nonprofit, recently announced plans to release a feature on its MIX Market website in 2013 that will allow users to search for “validated social data” from microfinance institutions (MFIs) and filter out those not reporting such data.
Since 2012, MIX social performance analysts have been reviewing social performance documents submitted to MIX by MFIs. Once the analysts determine that the provided documentation corroborates the ...
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May 14, 2013 - 11:01am
from Mobile Money for the Unbanked
We were glad so many of you were able to join us last week at our webinars on the Innovation Fund grants for NGOs and social enterprises. For those who missed the events, you can catch up on what we covered with the recording here and you can download the presentation deck
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Gender equality must be a development priority in its own right | Naila Kabeer and Jessica Woodroffe
May 14, 2013 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
In the consultations about what will replace the millennium development goals (MDGs) when they expire in 2015, there is pressure on politicians and political commentators to come up with the next "new" idea.The ...
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May 13, 2013 - 7:10pm
from Reserve Bank of India Notifications
Ref.No.IDMD/3110/08.02.032/2012-13
May 13, 2013
All Scheduled Commercial Banks
All State Co-operative Banks/All Scheduled Primary
(Urban) Co-operative Banks /All Financial Institutions/
All Primary Dealers.
Dear Sirs,
Auction of Government of India Dated Securities
Government of India have offered to sell (re-issue / issue) (a) “7.83 percent Government ...
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May 13, 2013 - 7:08pm
from Reserve Bank of India Notifications
F. No.4 (2) W&M/2013(i): Government of India hereby notifies sale of Government Stock (securities) of 10-year tenure for an ...
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May 13, 2013 - 7:07pm
from Reserve Bank of India Notifications
F. No.4 (2) W&M/2013: Government of India hereby notifies sale (re-issue) of ‘7.83 per cent Government ...
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May 13, 2013 - 7:06pm
from Reserve Bank of India Notifications
F. No.4 (2) W&M/2013 (ii): Government of India hereby notifies sale (re-issue) of ‘8.97 per cent Government Stock, ...
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May 13, 2013 - 7:04pm
from Reserve Bank of India Notifications
F. No.4 (2) W&M/2013 (iii): Government of India hereby notifies sale (re-issue) of ‘8.83 per cent Government ...
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May 13, 2013 - 1:40pm
from All About Finance - A blog by Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Among the most notable developments in the global economy over the past 20 years has been the rise of China and India as world economic powers. Along with high overall growth in these economies has come an increase in their financial activity. But how much have different types of firms used capital markets and benefited from their expansion?
In a new study and VoxEU column, we argue that the expansion of financing to the private sector in China and India has been much more ...
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May 13, 2013 - 1:15pm
from Reserve Bank of India Notifications
RBI/2012-13/500
DCM (NPD) No.5133/ 09.39.000/2012-13
May 10, 2013
The Chairman and Managing Director / The Chief Executive Officer
All Banks (including Co-operative banks and RRBs)
Madam / Dear Sir
Clean Note Policy
In recent periods, instances of certain branches of banks continues to follow old practices like stapling, writing number of note pieces in loose packets ...
