May 27, 2010
Everyone needs a safe place to save. Formal savings services need to be accessible conveniently and affordably from every village and every neighborhood. Technology, and in particular cellphones, offer an opportunity to rethink financial service distribution models and substantially reduce the cost of serving poor people. Please join Ignacio Mas for a discussion on the ...
Tags: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates Foundation, Ignacio Mas, micro-finance, microfinance, mobile banking, savingsEvents, Featured
November 10, 2009
Why Kiva should ignore the critics and continue on with the business of revolutionizing microfinance.
Tags: david roodman, dean karlan, Gates Foundation, kiva, matt flannery, microcredit, microfinance, microsavings, poverty, transparencyNews and Commentary
February 25, 2009
Feb 24, 2009 — Global reinsurance specialist Guy Carpenter Co., LLC has been awarded a grant by the Microinsurance Innovation Facility to develop a reinsurance facility for microinsurance and microfinance company operations (MFIs). (full article)
Tags: Gates Foundation, guy carpenter, ILO, microinsuranceAsides
February 18, 2009
Feb 18, 2009 — The GSMA, which intends to represent the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced a programme that could expand the availability of financial services to millions of people in the developing world through mobile phones. The Mobile Money for the Unbanked programme, ...
Tags: Gates Foundation, GSMA, microfinance, mobile bankingAsides
January 14, 2009
The Microcredit Summit Campaign was the recipient of a $700,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will help the Campaign measure progress toward its goal of ensuring that 100 million families rise above the $1 a day threshold by 2015. (Full Article)
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