Sentences with phrase «in microfinance»

Infoteria and Tech Bureau Complete the World's First Successful Demonstration Experiment of a Private Blockchain in Microfinance Account Data Recording.

Microsoft Japan welcomes the successful demonstration experiment of private Blockchain in microfinance.

This is the world's first * 6 demonstration experiment that used a private Blockchain in microfinance.

Private equity (PE) investments in microfinance institutions (MFIs), which fell by 12 per cent last year (2009), have recovered this year.

Part of the problem is that Dyme, who is hoping to transition from a legal career to one in economic development, lacks expertise in microfinance, which is an important qualification for many of the positions to which he's applied.

It outsources its work to great organizations, like Sustainalytics (for ESG analysis), SHARE (for shareholder engagement), and it even invests a small portion of its portfolio in microfinance through MicroVest.

My work in microfinance has taken me to some 50 countries.

Existing local players in microfinance propose to start small finance banks.

By the time the global financial crisis hit in 2008, the foundation had 20 percent of its portfolio in microfinance and other impact - driven debt and equity vehicles.

Not exact matches

Beshara, now the co-founder and CEO of group payments startup Tilt, was six days post-graduation and newly arrived at his not - for - profit microfinance job in Capetown, South Africa, when his boss gave him a new assignment in the surrounding slums.

She first went to work for IBM Corp.'s (NYSE: IBM) global microfinance initiative, where she helped create solutions to enable loans to be made to small businesses in developing countries.

Women entrepreneurs have benefited, in part, by the rise of microfinance.

In my six months of being the founder of nonprofit MADE Microfinance, a program focused on providing financial services for people that don't qualify for bank loans, I have begun to realize the true value of a network.

Though ImpactUS doesn't make recommendations, through its new online platform, investors and advisors can connect directly, and invest in Iroquois Valley Farms if they are interested in restorative farmland finance, Shared Interest if they'd like to help entrepreneurs in low - income communities in Africa, Envest Microfinance, for universal access to financial services, or CommonBond Communities, an affordable housing provider in the midwest.

Both in practice and in his research, the Mexico City native is focused on improving the world, whether through studies on social enterprise and microfinance or a TED talk on brand management and Mexican drug cartels that accumulated more than 1 million views.

Still, for women in these underserved areas, microfinance is a lifeline.

Gives grants to microfinance institutions in places where it does business.

In 2012, while pregnant with her second child, she was pursuing consultant work, but found it difficult to get a full - time contract — despite having deep experience in risk analysis and microfinance, and an impressive list of previous employers including Goldman Sachs and Credit SuissIn 2012, while pregnant with her second child, she was pursuing consultant work, but found it difficult to get a full - time contract — despite having deep experience in risk analysis and microfinance, and an impressive list of previous employers including Goldman Sachs and Credit Suissin risk analysis and microfinance, and an impressive list of previous employers including Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse.

As a result, in May of 2016, OnDeck helped launch an initiative of the three largest online small business lenders, and a leading national non-profit microfinance trade association (the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO)-RRB-, to produce a disclosure solution that would help standardize a common set of pricing metrics and make it easier for small business borrowers to assess their options.

«It takes 12 hours and a bus to move money from a microfinance institution (MFI) in Lagos to an MFI in the north of Nigeria.»

Opportunity Fund is the largest nonprofit lender to small businesses in California and a national leader for the microfinance movement.

I am long on stock not traded in last 90 days SATIN CREDIT — CASTING AWAY DEMONITISATION DEMONS Satin Creditcare is a large microfinance company providing collateral free, microcredit facilities to economically active women in both rural and semi-urban areas.

The loans are provided through BaptistCare with the scheme run under Good Shepherd Microfinance in partnership with NAB and the NSW Office of Fair Trading.

The No Interest Loan Scheme (NILs), a microfinance program aimed at providing small no - and low - interest loans to financially vulnerable people, has this week announced it has surpassed $ 11.5 million lent in NSW.

We've invested in companies revolutionizing industries like microfinance and women's health, published some of the only research into the state of female - founded venture funding, and continued to support our entrepreneurs with differentiated and valuable resources.

By recognizing these realities, Kiva and other microfinance organizations aspire to change the dynamics by utilizing the Internet to connect lenders to borrowers in the developing world.

Defined as lending small amounts of money to businesses in the developing world, microfinance is a critical asset to ease global poverty.

If you are interested in partnering with Help One Now with microfinance loans, you can make a one - time donation here.

Microfinance has worked well in war - torn areas.

Khaled says he plans to train thousands of activists in the Middle East to promote tolerance and to set up microfinance programs for the poor, the people he says are most susceptible to fundamentalism.

Plant With Purpose began work in the Dominican Republic 27 years ago after recognizing the connection between deforestation and rural poverty, and has responded by developing a holistic program of watershed restoration, sustainable agriculture, microfinance, and Christian discipleship.

A microfinance loan officer serving village artisans in Ethiopia, an engineer working to ensure clean water in Bolivia, a health worker delivering vaccines in Zambia — each can see three times as many people and carry five times as much equipment by bike as on foot.

Ryan is also actively involved in connecting his research to issues of public policy, complementing academic study with positions in policy, diplomacy, microfinance, and development.

He added that the state government will inject N1 billion into the State's Microfinance Agency to provide loans and support the development of small - scale enterprises in the State.

Inspired by the saving associations that emerged spontaneously in battalions as a response to soldiers» financial difficulties, the Ministry instituted a microfinance cooperative called Zigama Credit and Savings Society, or Zigama («savings» in Kinyarwanda) CSS.

Mustapha Ussif, in a press statement issued last week, had claimed that the he was on the expensive 3 - day workshop with Stephen Amoah, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), but The Herald's findings, have established that he is rather in Ghana.

According to the victims, Alexander Gyan, was once a manager for the God Is Love microfinance company that duped thousands of them in one of Ghana's biggest financial scams.

He has worked for microfinance institutes in Peru and Brazil, expanding rural development capacities and conducting social impact analyses on development and governance issues.

Mr Prah further condemned the president and the First Lady for denying any knowledge about DKM Microfinance, which has been in the news recently for defrauding over 1,000 customers.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Brong Ahafo Region, has downplayed concerns by some aggrieved victims of DKM and God Is Love microfinance companies, who want the party to withdraw the nomination of one Alexander Gyan as the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Kintampo South.

Some amount of 500,000 Ghana cedis which was used for investment with Obaatanpa microfinance is nowhere to be found in any account at MASLOC.

The property has been in dispute between the defunct Noble Dream Microfinance, its former Chief Executive, Ezekiel Owusu Afriyie, Endurance Oti Boateng and other directors on one hand and Mr. Okyem Aboagye who had acquired it by auction, on the orders of a Kumasi High Court.

A writ filed by Endurance Oti Boateng against Noble Dream Microfinance and one Samuel Tuffuor to lay claim to the property was dismissed by the court after the defendant failed to show up in court.

Citi Business News can confirm that the payment process for validated creditors of DKM Microfinance in Bolgatanga in the Upper East region has stalled, following a boycott by aggrieved creditors.

A Deputy Executive Secretary of the Microfinance and Small Loan Center (MASLOC), Afia Akoto, who is the third defendant in a GH cents 8 million defamation lawsuit, has apologized and retracted comments she reechoed accusing Senyo Hosi, CEO of the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors of offering a $ 1 million bribe to the CEO of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation...

Some customers of DKM Microfinance in the Northern regional capital, Tamale, are seeking to place an interlocutory injunction on the payments of depositor claims scheduled for next week Monday, October 17, 2016.

The Member of Parliament for Asunafo South, who was a Minister for the Brong Ahafo Region under the John Mahama administration, has challenged President Nana Akufo - Addo, to fulfill what he calls a promise made to hundreds of DKM Microfinance customers, whose investments were locked up in what some have described as one of the largest microfinance scams in Microfinance customers, whose investments were locked up in what some have described as one of the largest microfinance scams in microfinance scams in the country.

Editor - in - chief of the Insight Newspaper says managers of some microfinance companies whose assets have been seized by the Bank of Ghana knew...

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An Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ustaz Sham - Una Jibril, who is known for his accurate predictions on both local and international issues, has predicted that the Ashanti Region which is known to be the «World Bank» of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will turn into a «Traditional Microfinance» in the 2020 General Elections.