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Microfinance in Uruguay:

May 24, 2012 - 4:03pm from Mundo Microfinanzas
Fernando CalloiaTercera edición del Foro Nacional de Microfinanzas. Tiene lugar este jueves 24 de mayo el III Foro Nacional de Microfinanzas “La Inclusión Financiera para el Desarrollo”, organizado por el Programa de Microfinanzas para el Desarrollo Productivo, gestionado por la Oficina de Planeamiento y Presupuesto del gobierno uruguayo y ...
May 18, 2012 - 2:46am from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) Stefanini, una de las firmas pioneras de tecnología en la región, con sede en São Paulo, dio un paso estratégico en su objetivo de expandirse como proveedor de software para el sector microfinanciero en América Latina, al adquirir la empresa uruguaya Top Systems.Fundada en 1987 y con base en Montevideo, Top Systems (o Topaz) presta servicios a entidades de América Latina, el Caribe y Europa, con soluciones de core capaces ...
May 12, 2012 - 12:50am from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) La Organización Mundial del Comercio Justo (WFTO) celebra este sábado 12 de mayo el Día Internacional del Comercio Justo, a través de cientos de eventos en más de 70 países de África, Asia, Europa, América Latina, Norteamérica y el Pacífico.La jornada busca promover esta actividad como una ...
April 25, 2012 - 12:58pm from CGAP Microfinance Blog
What percentage of women in South Asia have a formal account compared to those in Latin America? What are the most common self-reported barriers to financial inclusion among women and rural residents worldwide? To what degree has mobile money reached the unbanked in Sub-Saharan Africa?  For the first time, we have hard data to ...
April 19, 2012 - 6:47pm from Portal de Microfinanzas - Noticias
La cartera de microcréditos creció 73% el año pasado frente a 2010 y totalizaron US$ 32,9 millones, según un reporte del Programa Microfinanzas...
March 21, 2012 - 5:03am from MicroCapital
Fitch, a rating agency with headquarters in London and New York, reportedly has affirmed the rating of Peruvian nonprofit holding company Grupo ACP Inversiones y Desarrollo (Grupo ACP) at BB-, indicating an elevated vulnerability to default risk [1] [2]. It also improved the firm’s outlook from stable to positive due to “the company’s sustained performance, sound growth prospects for its core subsidiaries, and the expected stabilization of Grupo ACP ACP’s leverage underpinned by higher ...
March 17, 2012 - 12:42am from Mundo Microfinanzas
El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) entregó este viernes en Montevideo sus premios beyondBanking, que reconocen las contribuciones sobresalientes de intermediarios financieros a la banca sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe. Los ganadores recibieron sus premios en el Auditorio Nacional del SODRE, en el marco de la reunión anual del ...
September 26, 2011 - 2:29pm from All About Finance - A blog by Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Much of the discussion surrounding the current European crisis focused initially on whether a default by Greece was inevitable and how that would impact bond holders. Over time, the attention has shifted to banks and the potential for a generalized run and failure of the financial system, not only in Greece but also in other countries. Unfortunately, the developments in ...
September 12, 2011 - 6:00am from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Spreading good ideas and practices in farming sounds like a simple enough goal, but can be immensely complicated not just on a global level but also locally.Ahead of the G20 meeting in Montpellier, France, on agricultural research and ...
July 18, 2011 - 5:24pm from Kiva.org
Behind the Scenes is a new series that the Kiva Blog is bringing to our community! Through internal interviews we will explore how Kiva functions, address hot topics and hear stories from the field.We had the pleasure of interviewing Giovanna Masci and Cynthia McMurry to bring you further insight into Kiva’s work in the Americas! Giovanna is the Regional Director of the Americas; she oversees all of Kiva’s work in the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean. She manages a team ...
June 3, 2011 - 12:38pm from Portal de Microfinanzas - Noticias
El Banco Santander, el principal banco privado de Uruguay, reforzó su presencia en el país con la adquisición de la empresa Creditel, líder en el sector de préstamos personales a pequeña escala...
June 2, 2011 - 6:00pm from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
In just a few days, on Sunday 5 June, an election will take place that will have a significant influence on the western hemisphere. At the moment, it is too close to call. Most of official Washington has been relatively quiet, but there is no doubt that the Obama administration has a big stake in the outcome of this poll. The ...
March 28, 2011 - 4:21pm from Universal Postal Union blog
Guest contribution by Hans Boon New initiatives are seen in South America: in Ecuador and Uruguay the Posts have entered into new partnership agreements with banks to mobilize small savings and collect or distribute payments, while Brazil’s ECT Correios has launched the selection process for the strategic partner of Banco Postal. In Africa the developments in postal financial inclusion are on the fast lane: in ...
December 20, 2010 - 6:19am from MFTransparency.org: Blog
por Andres Hammer Como mencionamos en una de nuestras últimas entradas al blog, MFTransparency en Foromic, MFT tuvo la oportunidad de participar en el  Foro de la Microempresa (Foromic) organizado por el 
November 29, 2010 - 9:17pm from Mundo Microfinanzas
Bruselas, Bélgica. Conferencia de Lanzamiento del proyecto Active Europe. Organizan Federación Europea de Bancos Éticos y Alternativos (Febea) y Comité Europeo Económico y Social (EESC), ambas con sede en esta capital, 29 de noviembre de 2010, 9:00 am a 5:00 pm, sede EESC (Rue Belliard, 99). Apertura con presidente EESC grupo III, el ...
November 22, 2010 - 6:37pm from Mundo Microfinanzas
Bangalore, India. Sociopreneurship India 2010, organizan el portal para emprendedores YourStory y el canal de negocios CNBC-TV18, 23 de noviembre de 2010, Royal Orchid Hotel. Promoción del empresariado social, inversión social y microfinanzas. Con Tara Thiagarajan, presidenta Madura Microfinance; Shereen Bhan (foto), editora ejecutiva de CNBC; ...