MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Central Bank of Kenya Grants Deposit License to U&I Deposit Taking Microfinance Limited
The Central Bank of Kenya, the country’s central banking authority, reportedly has granted a deposit-taking license to U&I Deposit Taking Microfinance Limited (U&I), a wholly-owned Kenyan microfinance company. U&I is the ninth company to receive such a license from the Kenyan government. The other Kenyan microfinance institutions (MFIs) that have received deposit-taking licenses are Laulu [...]
Kenyan farmers are using mobile agriculture applications to improve market information such as M-Farm, iCow, Kilimo Salama, M-Pesa and M-Shwari. These agri-technological innovations aim to offer either increased transparency or the extension of financial services to farmers. [1] M-Farm was developed in 2011 during a mobile start-up competition organized by HumanIPO, an African technology news [...]
The State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP’s) Credit Guarantee Scheme for Small and Rural Businesses (CGS), which aims to increase financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in rural areas via retail banks, reportedly will extend client loan terms from three years to five years in an effort to increase economic opportunities by facilitating the purchase [...]
By Dr Priyanka Jayashankar, Associate Editor Microfinance Focus, May 09, 2013: (On the sidelines of the 9th Annual Zell Center Chicago Microfinance Conference, Priyanka Jayashankar spoke to Accion Chicago’s COO Robin Lee Greiner and CEO Jonathan Brereton). “We believe the board has to be actively engaged and lead committees ranging from portfolio research, review, audit, marketing [...]
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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 in Indonesia tap mobile technology to sell their crops at a profitable rate. This is the Utopia that Grameen Foundation strives to create by leveraging a range [...]
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By Dr Priyanka Jayashankar, Research Fellow | Maastricht School of Management, The Netherlands Microfinance Focus, April23, 2013: From a Southern comfort restaurant to an African grocery shop tucked away in a suburb of Des Moines – micro-enterprises are thriving in pockets of the American Midwest. Grameen-style peer groups and low-denomination micro-loans are now also slowly making headway in [...]
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Funcionarios de los Fideicomisos Instituidos en Relación con la Agricultura (FIRA) y del Programa Nacional de Financiamiento al Microempresario (Pronafim) alertaron que en algunas regiones...
La Red para el Desarrollo de las Microfinanzas, entidad que agrupa a las entidades que otorgan microcréditos para el desarrollo de negocios, entregó recientemente su informe "Estado de las...
El Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones (FOMIN), miembro del grupo del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), lanza la convocatoria a los premios Interamericanos a la Innovación...
Les inscriptions pour le Master international en microfinance (EMP) sont ouvertes jusqu'au 24 mai 2013.
ADA lance une campagne de sensibilisation à Luxembourg qui se déroulera tout au long des mois de mai et juin 2013.
Avec sa campagne, ADA vous emmène au cœur de la finance inclusive, à la rencontre de ses bénéficiaires.
La Conférence internationale des donateurs « Ensemble pour le renouveau du Mali », coprésidée par l’Union européenne et la France, a réuni le 15 mai à Bruxelles des promesses de dons qui ont dépassé toutes les espérances. Les bailleurs de fonds se sont engagés à investir 3,25 milliards d’euros pour soutenir le Plan pour la Relance Durable du Mali 2013-2014 (PRED).
La 6ème rencontre entre les Commissions européenne et de l’UA a été l’occasion de dresser le bilan à ce jour des réalisations du Partenariat et de lancer la réflexion sur son avenir, en préparation du 4ème Sommet Afrique-UE qui se tiendra en avril 2014 à Bruxelles.
The sixth meeting between the European Union Commission and the African Union Commission was the opportunity to set out the state of play on what the partnership has achieved to date and to launch a period of reflection on its future to prepare the 4th EU-Africa Summit, which will take place in Brussels in April 2014.
