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.
TMRC Signs MoU With Habitat to Boost Housing Finance
This is the first step in the organizations' joint effort to expand and strengthen the low-income housing finance sector in Tanzania.
60 Decibels Unveils Definitive Assessment of Microfinance’s Social Impact
Through interviews with almost 18,000 microfinance clients across 41 countries, the 60 Decibels Microfinance Index provides a ground-up perspective on the lives of 25 million microfinance clients, representing 15 percent of the global market.
Mastercard Study Advocates Financial Inclusion as a Driver for Better Access to Health and Education
The study "Financial Inclusion+ - Connecting People to Finance, Health, and Education", explores how health, education, digital, and financial inclusion are all intertwined to unlock greater prosperity and wellbeing for communities across the region.
European Financing Fund for Africa Launched With First Closing of $24.1M
The second fund aims to finance African rural microfinance institutions and agricultural entities sourcing from small-holder farmers in the continent.