Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Mexico:
0
May 26, 2012 - 10:31am
from Mambu Blog
In Latin America, there’s a lot of buzz around Software as a Service and leveraging the power of the Internet to be able to deliver services faster and cheaper. It’s no surprise as going online gives small and medium businesses the power to catch up and compete with the incumbents on a more playing field ...
0
May 25, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
The World Council of Credit Unions’ Young Credit Union People (WYCUP) Scholarship Program recently announced the agenda for its four-day program to take place in Gdansk, Poland, from July 15, 2012 – July 18, 2012. The program focuses on developing professional growth of credit union employees and volunteers aged 35 and under. Five participants are chosen each year to receive full scholarships to the following year’s program. This year’s agenda will include: an educational and networking ...
0
May 24, 2012 - 6:12pm
from CGAP Technology Blog
In an earlier blog post of last year we shared the findings of a market segmentation study in Mexico conducted by CGAP, in collaboration with McKinsey & Company. The study (available in English and
0
May 22, 2012 - 5:13pm
from Kiva.org
David Letterman once said, “If it weren’t for coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality at all.”I think we can all agree that the day would be a mighty struggle without a mug of our morning pick-me-up. Folgers or Starbucks -- it almost doesn’t matter as long as it has caffeine and lots of it. But the truth is -- it does matter. ...
0
May 11, 2012 - 2:28pm
from The Ladder
The Asset Building News Week is a weekly Friday feature on The Ladder, the Asset Building Program blog, designed to help readers keep up with news and developments in the asset building field. This week's topics include the Millennial generation, homelessness, economic mobility, public benefits, and banking innovation. The Millennial GenerationMillennials (born between 1981 and 2000) are making headlines regularly as they navigate young adulthood in ...
0
May 9, 2012 - 11:17pm
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
When President Calderón of Mexico announced the creation of a National Council for Financial Inclusion, one of the first tasks he assigned was to ensure all financial data included statistics on financial inclusion:
“I would also like to urge the Minister of Treasury, in his capacity as Minister and as member of such Council, not to wait two or three years to conduct the financial inclusion surveys. … Every time the Minister receives financial information related to the ...
0
May 9, 2012 - 2:58pm
from Google news - microfinance
Financiera Independencia Secures Line of Credit from BBVA BancomerSacramento BeeBy Financiera Independencia, SAB de CV, SOFOM, ENR MEXICO CITY, May 8, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Financiera Independencia, SAB de CV, SOFOM, ENR (BMV: FINDEP; OTC: FNCRY), (Independencia), a ...
0
May 9, 2012 - 8:27am
from Morocco Microfinance Blog
May 07Mexico: Mexico's Credit Card
Grupo Elektra's Ricardo Salinas Pliego makes his billions the old-fashioned way: by charging the poor usurious ...
0
May 8, 2012 - 8:56pm
from David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
Rupert Scofield has replied to my retort to his review, etc. Clearly neither of us has swayed the other much, but I appreciate the friendliness and honesty, not to mention vividness, of his latest post.
He has conceded to me the argument over what the economic studies say. So his main thesis now is:
I think David, in his faith in the power of numbers, has strayed too far from the ...
0
May 8, 2012 - 7:13pm
from Google news - microfinance
Financiera Independencia Secures Line of Credit from BBVA BancomerMarketWatch (press release)MEXICO CITY, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Financiera Independencia, SAB de CV, SOFOM, ENR (bmv:FINDEP) (OTN:FNCRY) , (Independencia), a ...
0
May 7, 2012 - 1:19pm
from RemittancesGateway
Mexicans working abroad sent home $2.08 billion in March, an increase of 1.4% from the same month of 2011, the Bank of Mexico said Wednesday.
The March remittances, made up of 6.2 million transfers at an average of $336 per transfer, brought remittances for the first quarter to $5.37 billion, a 5.3% increase from the first three ...
0
May 7, 2012 - 1:19pm
from RemittancesGateway
Mexicans working abroad sent home $2.08 billion in March, an increase of 1.4% from the same month of 2011, the Bank of Mexico said Wednesday.
The March remittances, made up of 6.2 million transfers at an average of $336 per transfer, brought remittances for the first quarter to $5.37 billion, a 5.3% increase from the first three ...
0
May 4, 2012 - 8:20pm
from Kiva.org
A hearty welcome to Kiva’s newest Field Partner, Sistema Biobolsa!Unlike most of our partners, Biobolsa is not a microfinance institution. It’s a company that has developed an affordable system to transform waste into fertilizer and energy. For poor rural farmers whose livelihoods are based on their ...
0
May 2, 2012 - 3:58pm
from RemittancesGateway
Remittances from unlikely places are helping poor countries in the downturn
In TAPACHULA, a furnace of a city in southern Mexico, people line up inside an air-conditioned branch of Banco Azteca to process their remittances. Last year Mexicans received an estimated $24 billion from friends and family working abroad, mainly in the United States, with which Mexico ...
0
May 2, 2012 - 3:58pm
from RemittancesGateway
Remittances from unlikely places are helping poor countries in the downturn
In TAPACHULA, a furnace of a city in southern Mexico, people line up inside an air-conditioned branch of Banco Azteca to process their remittances. Last year Mexicans received an estimated $24 billion from friends and family working abroad, mainly in the United States, with which Mexico ...
0
May 1, 2012 - 4:07pm
from Kiva.org
Money is power -- and the way we use it has consequencesWhen you're scanning the aisles of your local super market or checking for sizes at the department store, it's easy to forget that everything we buy has been produced by someone. Even with my background in development, I rarely think about the individuals who planted, tended and picked my ...
0
May 1, 2012 - 1:06pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
In a New York Times column last Friday David Brooks discussed a book by Jim Manzi, and extolled the idea of randomized field trials as a way for the US to make better policies.
While it’s nice to welcome Citizen Brooks into the fold, there are a couple of points in his article worth exploring a bit.
First, he opens with some initial shock that no one has evaluated the ...
0
May 1, 2012 - 10:00am
from CGAP Technology Blog
Pablo García Arabéhéty is an independent consultant who focuses on business model innovation in the mobile and environmental industries. He has previously worked at the Organization of American States and the Innovation Lab at the Inter-American Development Bank.
Last December,
0
May 1, 2012 - 9:03am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Nigeria: “Microfinance banks allay customers' fears”
0
April 30, 2012 - 10:45pm
from Kiva.org
We’re thrilled to announce the addition of our newest Field Partner Union Regional de Huatusco!La Union Regional is a member-owned coffee cooperative based in Veracruz, Mexico. With a membership network of over 2,000 small-plot farmers in over 40 communities, La Union Regional sets itself apart by being ...
