Updates Archive
Updates
Accion, a global nonprofit, today announced an investment in Umati Capital, a Kenya-based lending company that provides invoice discounting and other forms of working capital financing to small and medium-sized
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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently published a guide that provides banks with a toolkit to develop an environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy and an operational framework
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The mobile communications markets of theDemocratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Ethiopia are still underdeveloped. While the population densities of both countries are among the highest in Sub-Saharan Africa, their
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The fifth annual Responsible Finance Forum took place on August 28-29, 2014 in Perth, Australia, convening over 100 industry, government and private sector leaders to discuss how digital
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On Tuesday, MetLife Foundation announced its new, year-long partnership with Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) and its $800,000 commitment to reach tens of thousands of girls through the Girl Scout Global
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Events
Can banking be a personal and positive thing? That’s a question GABV member banks across the world will ask on 23 October 2014 through local public engagement events
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There are 500 days until the deadline for the UN’s ambitious Millennium Development Goals (MDG). The UN MDG Report released this past July indicated that much progress had been made
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The Ghana Association of Microfinance Companies (GAMC) made a pre-tax profit of GH¢62,579 in 2013 compared with the GH¢294,516 recorded in 2012. The association’s net profit also rose
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The Government of Lao People’s Democratic Republic and the World Bank Group today signed two separate agreements worth up to USD$50 million. The first agreement is aimed at
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Janalakshmi, a microfinance institution headquartered in Bangalore, announced that it had closed its Series D primary equity raise of INR 3.25 billion. In addition, secondary transactions aggregating INR
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