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Share Your Insights in the Financial Inclusion Compass 2021 Survey

The fourth edition of the e-MFP Compass survey builds on the special edition Covid-19 Financial Inclusion Compass published last year to ask how the pandemic has changed stakeholders' roles and priorities.

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Symbiotics Launches Tameo, an Independent Spin-off Focusing on Enhancing Impact Funds With Support Services

The new company offers reference products to impact investors and fund managers, centered around research, impact and investment solutions.

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Kiva Capital Management Announces Final Close of Kiva Refugee Investment Fund

Capital from the Kiva Refugee Investment Fund will be invested in partnership with microfinance partners across the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

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COVID-19 Fuels 41 Percent Spike In Global Real-Time Payments

COVID-19 has dramatically increased reliance on real-time and digital payments, leading to a 41 percent surge in real-time payment transactions from 2019 to 2020.

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A Manual and a Toolbox to Improve the Financial Health of Microentrepreneurs

After two years of research including the latest developments brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, a financial health manual is now available.

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Call for Proposals - Cracking the Nut 2021: Building Resilient Food, Water, and Energy Systems

The primary topic for this year's event is particularly essential today, as the world grapples with a worldwide health and environmental crisis and its impact on vulnerable communities around the world.

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SEEP Selects Innovation Fund Recipients to Support Gender-Intentional COVID-19 Response Efforts

The awards support innovative COVID-19 response and recovery efforts related to savings groups, in the areas of women’s livelihoods, voice and leadership, violence against women, digital savings groups and more.

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Apply for the EUR 100,000 European Microfinance Award 2021

Application deadline is 13 April 2021, 23:59 pm CET 

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Growth of Digital Wallets and Contactless Payments Set to Explode

A new study has found that total spend through digital wallets will exceed $10 trillion in 2025, up from $5.5 trillion in 2020.

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ACI Worldwide and InComm Payments Partner to Digitize Cash Payments, Driving Financial Inclusion Amid the Pandemic

ACI Worldwide and InComm Payments announced a partnership that will digitize cash payments through the use of a barcode payment token.