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Grameen Foundation taps microfinance and technology to battle poverty

admin | May 7, 2013

By Dr Priyanka Jayashankar, Associate Editor Microfinance Focus, May 07, 2013: As a Haitian microfinance borrower gets a micro-loan to propel his enterprise’s growth, farmers thousands of miles away

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A tryst with microfinance in the Midwest

admin | April 23, 2013

Microfinance Focus, 23 April 2013: From a Southern comfort restaurant to an African grocery shop tucked away in a suburb of Des Moines – micro-enterprises are thriving in

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Indian Securitisation Foundation seeks rollback of Securitisation Tax Proposal

admin | April 8, 2013

By Vinod Kothari, Microfinance Focus, April 08, 2013: The Indian Securitisation Foundation has sought rollback of proposals on securitisation in Budget 2013. The securitisation industry has sought a pass-through

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David Woods to join Oikocredit as Managing Director

admin | December 17, 2012

Social investor and worldwide cooperative, Oikocredit today announced appointment of Mr David Woods as its new managing director from 1 January 2013. Mr Woods’ appointment follows the pending

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Incofin IM, FMO to strengthen 14 microfinance institutions

admin | December 17, 2012

Incofin IM and FMO have signed a 4th Capacity Development agreement. According to an official report, the new Capacity Development Facility (CD Facility) financed by FMO and executed

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Ujjivan Slashes Interest Rates

admin | December 17, 2012

Ujjivan Financial Services, a Bangalore based microfinance institution has reduced its interest rates by 1-2 % from 15th December 2012 across majority of the loans offered to its

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Hugh Sinclair: You may still have over-estimated the competence of this fund?

admin | December 14, 2012

This is indeed a concern we have, not that we are seeing that microfinance funds are crumbling, but we see the potential, because basically the microfinance funds on

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MFI’s of 27 Countries unified for the development of Islamic Microfinance

admin | December 13, 2012

Three-day “Global Islamic Microfinance Forum” was organized on 8th-10th December 2012, in Dubai World Trade Centre, UAE. The delegates from UAE, Pakistan, India, UK, Bangladesh, USA, UK Bahrain,

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USD 10mn Loans for affordable Housing and microfinance in Dominican Republic

admin | December 13, 2012

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, recently announced a total of USD 10 million, five year local-currency loans to two Institutions, Asociación La Nacional and to

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Joseph Cahalan Named CEO of Concern Worldwide U.S.

admin | December 13, 2012

International humanitarian organization Concern Worldwide U.S. announced that it has appointed long-time Xerox Corporation executive, Joseph Cahalan, Ph.D., as its Chief Executive Officer. The appointment of Dr.