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December 10, 2012
Over the past 18 months, one of the microfinance sector's largest and most prominent funds, Blue Orchard's Dexia Micro-Credit Fund (recently renamed Blue Orchard Microfinance Fund), saw a
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Developed in collaboration with the World Bank, the project includes building efficient payment mechanisms like mobile money and evolving a comprehensive legal and regulatory framework for the payment
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IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has launched the Sustainable Banking Network to help bank regulators in emerging markets develop green-credit policies and environmental and social
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According to the CGAP's Cross-Border Funder Survey, international funding for microfinance reached at least US$25 billion in 2011. The total amount committed continues to increase, though at a
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VisionFund, the microfinance not-for-profit partner of global humanitarian charity World Vision, today announced that its outstanding microfinance loan portfolio has exceeded US$400 million.
VisionFund provides loans, savings facilities
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On Wednesday November 28, MIX, or Microfinance Market Exchange, a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, DC, launched the India Map of Financial Inclusion during the second plenary of
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Azerbaijan’s leading microfinance bank, AccessBank, received 10 million dollars through MSME Bonds, Symbiotics’ impact bond issuance platform, on November 20, 2012. The platform offers standardized electronically-traded syndications for
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AXA Mediterranean and Latin America region (AXA MedLA), a subsidiary of AXA Group, and Grameen-Jameel Microfinance Ltd., one of the largest private supporters to microfinance institutions in Middle
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Accion, a private, nonprofit organization working in bringing financial services to the underserved, announced that its Frontier Investments Group along with Saama Capital, an India venture focused investment
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I already knew about Grameen Bank and its work to give microcredit to poor women in Bangladesh but as I studied Grameen more closely, it became clear that
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