Emerging Markets Global Advisory Limited Advises on $10M Debt Raise for Banco D-Miro
The funds will allow Banco D-Miro to continue the expansion of its microcredit lending activities in Ecuador.
Bangladesh: Government Moves to Cut Microcredit Service Charge
An 11-member committee, headed by Grameen Bank Chairman Prof Dr A K M Saiful Majid, has been formed to look into the cost of the MFI's services and to determine if there is any scope to reduce the charges.
Call for Session Proposals for Financial Inclusion Week 2022
FIW 2022 will be held on 17-20 October, under the theme "Inclusive Growth in a Digital Era." The call for proposals for 5 – 60 minute sessions will close on 19 August.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Works to Enable Sustainable Private Investment in Agri-Food Systems and Specific Value Chains
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations deepened its work for attracting and de-risking private-sector investments in agri-food systems, targeting public and private agricultural value chains actors as well as private investors, and piloting its interventions in six African countries.
Mobilink Microfinance Bank, CBA Partner to Promote Access to Digital Financial Solutions
This partnership will strengthen access to financial products and services through digital platforms and improve financial literacy.
TaroWorks Offers $20,000 Grant to Help Last Mile Distributors Scale With Mobile Tech
This program will help subsidize the use of our mobile inventory management system by last mile distributors looking to digitize logistics operations in emerging markets but facing long-standing funding, technology, and logistical challenges.
Nigeria’s Real-Time Payment Transactions Surge 95 Percent in 2021
Nigeria is looking to real-time payments to help drive economic growth and financial inclusion as its volume of real-time transactions surged year-on-year by 94.7 percent to 3.7 billion in 2021.
A $45M Investment in Fiscal Year 2022 Boosts Goal to Reach Over 30,000 Small Businesses in Nepal
The investment in the nation's recovering financial sector is part of a wider SME strategy, which aims to help spur a greater range of financial products and services such as psychometric scoring solutions and payment systems reforms.
Grameen Foundation Grants a First Loan to the Microfinance Institution Baobab in Burkina Faso
Through its subsidiaries, Baobab provides financial services to half a million microentrepreneurs and small businesses, thus allowing access to financing to people who are not currently supported by traditional banks.
Microfinance Institutions Network Launches TVC for Backing Low-Income Women Groups
The campaign tagline aims to communicate how the microfinance industry in India has all along been actively supportive of income-generating trade activity, by low-income financially excluded women across the country.