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Impact Investing: Not Just For Billionaires
Foundations just make grants, correct? Not necessarily. Grants are becoming one option in a more complex menu of financial tools for the social sector.
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Tigo, Airtel, Zantel announce Africa’s first interoperable mobile money agreement
Three major telecoms companies operating in Tanzania – Tigo, Airtel and Zantel – are to adopt interoperable mobile money services by the end of the month, the first agreement of its kind of Africa.
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How Mobile Phone Carriers Are Helping Insure The 4 Billion People Who Live Without A Safety Net
With this system, every time a customer tops up his SIM card, he gets free insurance coverage. The model helps carriers increase brand loyalty and gets people in poverty comfortable with the emerging concept of micro-insurance.
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Is Brazil the Country of the Future for Mobile Money?
Just three years ago, Latin America had the fewest number of mobile money deployments of any region in the world. Some believe that Brazil, with its extensive branchless banking infrastructure and supportive regulations, could become the first Latin American country to take a full mobile money deployment to scale. But according to Mondato, there are reasons to be skeptical.
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MobiKash launches mobile merchant payment service in Kenya
MobiKash Afrika has unveiled a merchant payment service to deliver mobile money transactions in real time, making cashless transactions at the grassroots level a reality for thousands of Kenyans.
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In India, Telcos Ride Piggy Back on Migrant Workers, Bet Big on Mobile Money
KOCHI: If the initial responses are any indication, the ubiquitous mobile phone is set to become a tool for financial inclusion in Ernakulam district.
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EMERGE: The Forum on Consumer Financial Services Innovation: Join CFSI June 4-6 in Los Angeles
Since 2006, the Center for Financial Services Innovation and American Banker have hosted hundreds of leading players from the financial services industry at their annual forum. This year’s conference, EMERGE: The Forum on Consumer Financial Services Innovation, will be held June 4-6 in Los Angeles. It will provide opportunities to network, generate new ideas, and advance innovations in the financially underserved market.
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U.N. Vows to Eliminate Open Defecation by 2025
At the height of his election campaign last October, Narendra Modi, India’s Hindu nationalist leader, briefly set aside his spiritual aspirations when he told a surprised audience that economic development should take precedence over religion.
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