All News and Announcements

Showing 351 - 360 of 1623
News

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. 

News

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.

News

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.

News

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.

News

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.

News

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. 

News

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.

News

Call for Session Proposals for Financial Inclusion Week 2022

FIW 2022 will be held on 17-20 October, under the theme "Inclusive Growth in a Digital Era." The call for proposals for 5 – 60 minute sessions will close on 19 August.

News

African Development Bank and African Guarantee Fund Sign $110 Million Agreement With Tanzania’s CRDB Bank to Boost Access to Finance by Women’s SMEs

The bouquet of financing will enable CRDB to significantly impact the socio-economic growth of the region by empowering small businesses, especially women, and unleashing their full potential.

News

Fintech Innovation Challenge Aims to Help Address the Challenge of Financial Inclusion in Pacific Island Countries

The United Nations Capital Development Fund launched the challenge with the aim to attract local and global fintechs with market-ready solutions to address identified problem statements which represent the challenges faced by Pacific Islands Countries.