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The Next Challenge for Impact Investing – Thinking Small to Think Big: Scaling up support to early-stage social enterprises
Both small investors and businesses are especially in need of partner and mentorship services, but they're left out of most impact investment networks. Global networks that serve as knowledge, best practice and deal flow platforms should focus especially on early-stage social enterprises and investors, which need the most support.
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Kenyan banks take on M-PESA in fight for money transfer billions
Kenya Bankers Association plans to launch an interbank mechanism to enable interoperability across member banks for all retail payment streams, aiming to eat into M-PESA’s market share.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile payments app Paytm to allow Indian consumers to bargain with merchants
Mobile payments and e-commerce application Paytm is launching a messenger function directly connecting buyers and sellers.
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- South Asia
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Indian mobile operators feature strongly among ‘payments bank’ license winners
Bidders linked to the country’s top three mobile operators – Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular – as well as newcomer Reliance Jio Infocomm and Telenor were among eleven winners of payments bank licenses in India.
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India’s MFI credit bureaus comb client data to smooth microloans
Three years after India’s first credit bureau for microfinance institutions (MFIs) opened shop, teething troubles continue to prevent lenders and borrowers from making full use of it.
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- lending, microfinance
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MobiKwik and StoreKing bring financial inclusion to rural India
MobiKwik, India’s largest independent mobile payments network, today announced a new partnership with StoreKing that expands MobiKwik’s cash-less and card-less payment management to 10,000 retail stores in 600 small towns and 5,000 villages.
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Asia Pacific leads the way as mobile payments head towards US $1 trillion
Mobile payments globally will rocket to US$1 trillion in value by 2017, up from an estimated $500 million this year.
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10 startups that are attempting to unseat cash through digital payments in India
In India, 95% of all payments have been made through cash - but a number of factors could catalyze a digital shift.
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