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Weekly Roundup 10-30-15: A New NextBillion is Coming Next Week
We hope you can forgive this very abbreviated weekly roundup. See, we’re sort of in the middle of something: A new website.
Yes, next week we’re launching a redesigned and reimagined NextBillion.net. We’re excited about the possibilities and potential for the new site, which we will unveil in the coming days.- Categories
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Will Southeast Asia Be the Epicenter of Mobile Finance and Commerce 2.0?: Ten takeaways from the Mondato Summit Asia
The Mondato Summit Asia explored the latest concepts and use cases in the mobile finance and commerce (MFC) ecosystem in the region. This post highlights 10 key takeaways from the conversation, as panelists and participants discussed whether Asia was on the cusp of "MFC 2.0."
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Omidyar Network Report Reveals Disruption in Emerging Market Credit Score Business
Omidyar Network today released "Big Data, Small Credit: The Digital Revolution and Its Impact on Emerging Market Consumers", a research report that analyzes a new category of technology enterprises that are disrupting the traditional way of assessing consumer credit risk in emerging markets. Using non-financial data—such as social media activity and mobile phone usage patterns—complex algorithms and big data analytics are delivering a quicker, cheaper, and more effective credit assessment of consumers who lack credit histories and were invisible to lenders before.
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India and Bangladesh Play Unlikely Starring Role at Money 20/20
Financial inclusion featured high on the agenda of the opening sessions at Money 20/20 in Las Vegas. Initiatives from Asia were highlighted as showing best practice in solving identity issues.
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- South Asia
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Manila Hosts Summit on Asia Pacific Financial Inclusion
The Philippines is hosting the inaugural Asia-Pacific Financial Inclusion Summit from Oct. 27-29 to augment financial inclusion in the Asia Pacific region. It is being held at the Makati Shangri-La in Manila.
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Viewpoint: Upcoming IPOs Will Be an Acid Test for Indian MFIs
Between 2007 and now, globally, two microfinance institutions (MFIs) got themselves listed on the stock exchanges. In the next six months, this number will be doubled; it could even be trebled. And, all entities opting for public listing are from India.
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: RushCard Disruption Reveals Why Prepaid Debit Cards Should Not Exist At All
It’s a sad truth of American life that the poorer you are the more you pay for banking. And as thousands of Americans have discovered this month, it can also be very perilous to live outside the mainstream banking system. But there may be a solution on the horizon – one unused since the 1960s.
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Why ‘FinTech’ could be crucial to the growth of African economies
Stand-out success stories, such as M-Pesa have changed the way that consumers, banks and investors see the growth of banking and finance on the continent. Now an increasing number of homegrown companies are trying to build on the opportunities that this mobile revolution has created.
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- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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