Within the continent’s gloomy pandemic narrative, the formidable resilience of remittance flows into African markets is a shining light.

Central banks and their partners have innovated across machine learning, cloud services, payments and more.

After an extensive global search, VisionFund is pleased to announce that Edgar Martinez has been appointed President and CEO for VisionFund International effective18 January 2021.

Dutch development bank FMO has proposed $4 million funding in Maxima Microfinance, a regulated microfinance institution in Cambodia.

Announcing the 2020 Inclusive Fintech 50, a group of startups driving inclusion and resilience for the 3 billion financially underserved people globally.

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More than 260,000 applicants received approval to restructure their loans from microfinance institutions as of October.

The events that have unfolded have brought to the fore the need to provide some sort of a social security net for millions of toiling masses. 

A staggering 37 percent of workers in Bangladesh’s micro, small and medium enterprises lost their jobs, either temporarily or permanently, in the space of one month, with 94 percent of MSMEs experiencing a sharp drop sales due to the impact of COVID-19.

This is the first foreign equity placement by Commercial Bank, the first post-pandemic equity placement by the IFC and is one of the largest foreign investments into Sri Lanka since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.