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May 25, 2012 - 7:57pm
from AidData: The First Tranche
Global Integrity broke 'open government' down into three core values: information transparency, public engagement, and accountability. Amina Az Zubair, CEO of Nigeria’s Centre for Development Policy Solutions, George Ndungu, National Coordinator for the Kenya Youth Network ...
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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 25, 2012 - 11:25am
from Mobile Money Africa
OBINNA CHIMA THISDAY Renaissance Capital (RenCap) has called for policies that will stimulate the growth of mobile banking in Nigeria. The international financial advisory firm in a report Tuesday expressed concern that why the use of the banking platform has recorded significant success in Kenya, same could not be said of Nigeria. It added: “The
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May 25, 2012 - 12:00am
from Central Bank of Nigeria Feed
The Central Bank of Nigeria is proposing to undertake, under its intervention programme, the development of a World-Class Convention Centre in Abuja. The centre shall consist of an auditorium, multi-purpose halls, accommodation, retail spaces and associated facilities.
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May 24, 2012 - 10:38pm
from Acumen Fund Blog
Seen & Heard Around Acumen Fund
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May 2 – May 24, 2012
Seen & Heard is a collection of recent headlines in the news about our world, our work, and the spaces and places in between. In each post, we also share a list of job openings at Acumen Fund and in our sector. Seen & Heard ...
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May 24, 2012 - 11:53am
from Microfinance Nigeria
By Hope Moses-Ashike, Business Day Online
Two years ago, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) introduced certification programme that chief executive officers of microfinance banks, MFBs, must pass certain examinations or lose their jobs, which forms part of a capacity building programme to make the domestic MFB industry more robust and transparent.
The initiative was as a result of lack of capacity in practical microfinance banking, which has led to mission ...
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May 24, 2012 - 11:51am
from Microfinance Africa
By Hope Moses-Ashike, Business Day Online
Two years ago, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) introduced certification programme that chief executive officers of microfinance banks, MFBs, must pass certain examinations or lose their jobs, which forms part of a capacity ...
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May 24, 2012 - 12:00am
from Central Bank of Nigeria Feed
The Central Bank of Nigeria invites sealed bids from bidders for the provision of Consultancy services for the implementation of Business Continuity Management in the Central Bank of Nigeria.
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May 24, 2012 - 12:00am
from Central Bank of Nigeria Feed
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) hereby invites reputable printing outfits with proven experience and expertise in handling flagship publications to tender for the printing of the CBN 2011 Annual Report.
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May 23, 2012 - 12:45pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
By Akinola Ajibade, The Nation
• Fund was established as micro finance fund
A director, Other Financial Institutions Development (OFID) Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olufemi Fabanwo, has said the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMES) fund is not for weak microfinance banks.
Fabanwo said only institutions with proven record of performance would be able to access the fund. He said the fund is not meant to bailout ...
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May 23, 2012 - 12:43pm
from Microfinance Africa
By Akinola Ajibade, The Nation
• Fund was established as micro finance fund
A director, Other Financial Institutions Development (OFID) Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olufemi Fabanwo, has said the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMES) fund is not for weak microfinance ...
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May 23, 2012 - 12:34pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
La Fayette Microfinance Bank recently received the Approval-in-Principle from the Central Bank of Nigeria to carry out microfinance services in Oyo State. La Fayette MFB will be headquartered in Ibadan, the State’s capital. The Company will be incorporated in June 2012 and is expected to start operations in December 2012. The ambition of La Fayette Microfinance Bank Limited is to contribute to professionalization of the microfinance sector in Nigeria by offering high-standard loans and ...
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May 23, 2012 - 12:32pm
from Microfinance Africa
La Fayette Microfinance Bank recently received the Approval-in-Principle from the Central Bank of Nigeria to carry out microfinance services in Oyo State. La Fayette MFB will be headquartered in Ibadan, the State’s capital. The Company will be incorporated in June 2012 and is expected to start operations in ...
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May 23, 2012 - 9:59am
from Google news - microfinance
BusinessDayWhat CBN's ...
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May 22, 2012 - 9:26pm
from Google news - microfinance
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria ...MicroCapitalThe Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of ...
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May 22, 2012 - 9:25pm
from MicroCapital
The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), a government agency, has agreed to collaborate with Azsa Microfinance Bank, which has raised NGN 60 million (USD 376,740) in paid-up capital. SMEDAN will provide entrepreneurial training, including mentoring and counseling to micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), which it will then connect to Azsa Microfinance Bank for funding. The Azsa Microfinance Bank, will provide credit, equity or both to ...
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May 22, 2012 - 12:00pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
By Hope Moses-Ashike, Business Day Online
Recently, the government of Western Australia granted payroll tax rebate to small businesses operating in that country. Such small businesses with nationwide group payrolls of up to $1.5 million in the 2012/13 financial year would receive a full rebate of their WA payroll tax liabilities, with a maximum value of $41,250.
The rebate is part of the measures the Western Australian government has put in place to reduce ...
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May 22, 2012 - 11:59am
from Microfinance Africa
By Hope Moses-Ashike, Business Day Online
Recently, the government of Western Australia granted payroll tax rebate to small businesses operating in that country. Such small businesses with nationwide group payrolls of up to $1.5 million in the 2012/13 financial year would ...
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May 22, 2012 - 12:00am
from Central Bank of Nigeria Feed
The Monetary Policy Committee met on May 21 and 22, 2012 with all members in attendance. The Committee reviewed the conditions and challenges that confronted the domestic economy during the first five months of 2012, against the backdrop of international economic and financial developments; to reassess the monetary policy options in the near-to-medium term.
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May 21, 2012 - 1:18pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
By Babajide Komolafe & Ahmed Ibrahim, Vanguard
Nigeria should look beyond micro-finance institutions to achieve the goal of financial inclusion and poverty reduction says Mr. Laoye Jaiyeola, immediate past president, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).
“To facilitate inclusion, we may however have to look beyond microfinance, as studies in other countries have shown, microfinance can help the unbanked have access to credit but it has ...
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