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Asian Development Bank Supports Philippines Financial Inclusion Reforms With $300 Million Loan
ADB’s Inclusive Finance Development Program, Subprogram 2, is supporting reforms to help the government reach targets linked to the National Strategy for Financial Inclusion.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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From Marine Waste To Fashion: A Journey of Flip-Flops and Trash Heroes From Thailand’s Far South
It was a journey that began five years ago on the islands of Satun, with 100,000 flip-flops and sandals that had been spat out by the sea and washed ashore.
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- Environment
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: How Mobile Wallets Fend Off Economic Shocks
Households as well as companies can mitigate economic risks better by adopting mobile-based transactions, a new study finds.
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- Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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Press Release: Asian Fintech Firm TrueMoney Partners With Thunes, a Global Cross-Border Payment Network, to Expand Its Global Remittance Services
The partnership will transform the way people pay, send, and receive money in SEA, enabling TrueMoney's 58 million users to receive remittances across 100 countries.
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- Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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Interview: How COVID-19 Will Affect Impact Investing in India
Geeta Goel, country director, India, of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, talks about the need for responsible capitalism
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- Coronavirus, Education, Investing
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- South Asia
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Venio Launches ‘Nano-Credit’ Lending App to Boost Financial Inclusion in Emerging Markets
‘Nano-credit’ mobile application company Venio has begun offering credit facilities for the unbanked consumers in the Philippines.
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- Finance
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Facebook’s WhatsApp to Partner with More Indian Banks in Financial Inclusion Push
“We now want to open up with more banks over this coming year to help simplify and expand banking services, especially to the rural and lower-income segments,” Abhijit Bose, WhatsApp’s India head told a fin-tech summit via a webcast.
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Press Release: Western Union Expands With TrueMoney in the Philippines
Five thousand TrueMoney locations across the Philippines to provide Western Union Money Transfer Services
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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