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May 25, 2012 - 4:00pm
from MicroCapital
ResponsAbility Social Investments, a Swiss microfinance investment manager, has reached six investment deals with three microfinance institutions (MFIs)in Africa. Two loans each were disbursed to Kenyan Women Finance Trust (KWFT), a Kenyan MFI; MicroCred Ivory Coast, an MFI affiliated with MicroCred Group of France; and Promotion of Rural Initiative and Development Enterprises Limited (PRIDE), an MFI based in Tanzania.
ResponsAbility SICAV Mikrofinanz-Fonds (rAMF), a microfinance ...
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May 14, 2012 - 7:31am
from 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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May 8, 2012 - 9:54am
from Microfinance Africa
From Vanguard
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and The MasterCard Foundation today launched a partnership to increase access to financial services for an estimated 5.3 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Building on recent economic momentum and ...
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May 8, 2012 - 9:52am
from Microfinance Nigeria
From Vanguard
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and The MasterCard Foundation today launched a partnership to increase access to financial services for an estimated 5.3 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Building on recent economic momentum and stability in many African economies, the project will create new opportunities for economically disadvantaged people to expand businesses, gain access to cost-effective financial services, and manage ...
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May 3, 2012 - 10:00am
from CGAP Technology Blog
This is the fifth and final post in our series on remittances and branchless banking. You can read the first four posts here. So far, we have highlighted the emerging success factors and challenges featured in our 2012 landscaping exercise. Paolo Baltao from Globe’s GCASH shared with us the lessons learned over a period of eight years during which time he led one of the first ...
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April 30, 2012 - 5:05am
from MicroCapital
Microfinance institution (MFI) AccessBank of Azerbaijan, an affiliate of Germany’s Access Microfinance Holding AG (AccessHolding), recently announced the implementation of a new service allowing customers to make loan payments by telephone. Customers who use one of the bank’s plastic debit cards can now transfer funds from their cards towards debt repayment via AccessBank’s call center.
Mr Andrew Pospielovsky, general manager of AccessBank said “AccessBank continuously tries to ...
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April 20, 2012 - 10:57am
from Mobile Money Africa
CANAL+ AFRIQUE and Orange have signed a partnership offering CANAL+/CANALSAT subscribers in Africa a convenient way to pay their subscription fees with their mobiles, using Orange’s mobile payment service. CANAL+/CANALSAT subscription fee payment using Orange Money will be launched in Madagascar in June 2012, so all Malagasy subscribers who are both CANAL+/CANALSAT and Orange customers
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April 16, 2012 - 10:58am
from 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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March 23, 2012 - 5:39am
from MicroCapital
AccessBank, an Azerbaijan-based microfinance institution (MFI), recently announced that it has increased its share capital by 25 percent from AZN 67.8 million (USD 86 million) to AZN 85 million (USD 108 million). The increase is a result of the capitalization of a small amount of retained earnings from 2011 and an increase in the value of AccessBank shares from AZN 3.39 (USD 4.31) to AZN 4.25 (USD 5.41). The number of shares remains at 20 million, and their distribution among AccessBank’s ...
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March 6, 2012 - 4:51pm
from Private Sector Development Blog
When I arrived to work for an NGO in Madagascar a few years ago, one of the first things I did was buy a cheap mobile phone and SIM, to connect with family and friends back home. Like many visitors to the developing world, I was struck by how many of the otherwise abjectly poor people I met also owned mobile phones. People who can afford very little nonetheless consider a mobile phone an essential item. And rightly so - I have come to see mobile phones as one of the most powerful ...
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March 2, 2012 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
Azerbaijani microfinance institution AccessBank has announced that it will be offering insurance policies for vehicle owners. The service was established in connection with a new law in the Azerbaijan Republic regarding mandatory insurance of vehicle owners’ third-party liability. The policies will be offered through three undisclosed insurance companies in the country. Depending on the vehicles’ engine size, the cost of insurance may range from AZN 50 (USD 64) to AZN 250 (USD 318) for ...
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February 23, 2012 - 5:05am
from MicroCapital
BNP Paribas China, a branch of the France-based financial services provider BNP Paribas, has disbursed a loan in local currency equivalent to USD 2.3 million to Chinese microfinance institution (MFI) MicroCred Nanchong, a member of the France-based MicroCred. MicroCred Nanchong distributes loans starting at EUR 228 (USD 300) to approximately 7,000 borrowers in China.
MicroCred Nanchong reported a gross loan portfolio of USD 20.5 million, total assets of USD 21.4 million, return on ...
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February 9, 2012 - 7:22pm
from MicroCapital
By the Economist Intelligence Unit, funded by The Multilateral Investment Fund, Corporación Andina de Fomento and the International Finance Corporation, October 2011, 72 pages, available at: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=36453519.
This paper examines the microfinance business environments in 55 countries, ...
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January 26, 2012 - 8:00am
from MicroCapital
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Microfinance Foundation (GCAMF), a Luxembourg-based nongovernmental organization, has reported to MicroCapital that it has issued a three-year loan of USD 300,000 to Tuba Rai Metin (TRM), a microfinance institution (MFI) in East Timor [1]. GCAMF also marked its first investments in Tajikistan with local-currency loans equivalent to USD 643,800 each to MFIs Arvand and Humo and Partners.
As of 2010, TRM provides loans and saving services to approximately ...
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January 20, 2012 - 9:43am
from 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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January 10, 2012 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE), a microfinance investment fund incorporated in Luxembourg, has reported to MicroCapital that it has made loans to the following institutions: USD 15 million to AccessBank of Azerbaijan, the equivalent of USD 649,000 to Kreditimi Rural I Kosoves (KRK) of Kosovo, the equivalent of USD 5.27 million to Byblos Bank Armenia and approximately USD 3.89 million to Alter Modus of Montenegro. The loan to Byblos Bank was disbursed in two tranches: a ...
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January 4, 2012 - 3:23pm
from MicroCapital
Microfinance institution (MFI) AccessBank of Azerbaijan, an affiliate of Access Microfinance Holding AG (AccessHolding), recently announced that it has disbursed its 500,000th loan [1]. The bank has disbursed approximately USD 1.75 billion to approximately 250,000 clients since it started operations in 2002. AccessBank provides access to financial services to Azerbaijan’s micro- and small enterprises (MSEs) and low- and middle-income households.
As of December 2010, AccessBank ...
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September 12, 2011 - 11:12am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
You don't have to look further than the front pages of our newspapers to see that disasters are becoming more and more frequent, particularly in developing and emerging economies. The roll call of destruction is fresh in our minds – Haiti, Pakistan, Japan, the Horn of Africa, all in the last 19 months. The UK public has responded generously to ...
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September 9, 2011 - 10:38am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
All is not well at Makerere University in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Once called the Harvard of Africa, Makerere was closed last week after academic and administrative staff downed their tools, the climax of a row over pensions and pay.It is the second time in four years that the ...
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August 27, 2011 - 2:58pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Por Martín Páez Molina – Publicado en Microdinero) La publicación de The Handbook of Microfinance (World Scientific, Singapur, 2011), presentada por el Centre for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi), está llamada a ser uno de los acontecimientos editoriales del año para las microfinanzas.
Como ya informó este diario, se trata de un ...
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