Amsterdam Fintech Week to Explore How to Make Financial Services More Accessible
While enabling the market to do it’s work, the event also aims to explore how the fintech community can make financial services more accessible, understandable and impactful.
Sao Tome and Principe: World Bank Boosts Improvements in the Banking System, Access to Finance
This $7 million financing for the ongoing Institutional Capacity Building Project will help scale-up activities with the Central Bank of Sao Tome and Principe and support system modernizations as part of the COVID-19 mitigation response.
More Nigerians to Benefit From COVID-19 Loan
The Central Bank of Nigeria, through NIRSAL Microfinance Bank, has announced the reopening of its portal for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and households affected by COVID-19 to access up to $70,000.
COVID-19 Second Wave Takes a Toll on Digital Payments
Digital payment transactions have fallen sharply between April and May after sustaining a rising trend till March, hit by the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India.
COVID-19 Loans for MSMEs Reach PHP 4.3 Billion
The loans approved under the COVID-19 Assistance to Restart Enterprises program is said to have benefited 29,816 enterprises in the Philippines.
IFC Partners With Evocabank to Support Smaller Businesses, Boost Resilience and Drive Recovery in Armenia
Even before the COVID-19 crisis, access to finance was the biggest obstacle for doing business in Armenia. Has it increased following the pandemic?
Symbiotics Arranges Two Green Bonds in Vietnam With EVNFinance for $6.25 Million
The proceeds will be used to fund solely green projects: renewable energy (C&I solar, roof-top solar), hydro power, and biomass energy.
Ngern Tid Lor PCL is IFC’s First Investment in a Non-Banking Financial Institution in Thailand to Support MSMEs
The investment aims to support a resilient recovery by promoting business growth, creating jobs, and fostering financial inclusion.
IEIN Seeking Collaborators to Establish Market Linkages for Self-Help Groups
The aim of the project is to support SHGs by providing them with business training, production skills and marketing information to empower rural women to adopt non-agricultural means of earning a sustainable livelihood.
Identifying the Research Needs of Financial Inclusion Actors
Survey by the e-MFP Action Group "From Research to Practice and Back Again"