The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) issued more banks licences to provide mobile money services, its Deputy Director, Domestic Payment Division, Emmanuel Obaigbona has said.
The development is in response to banks’ quest to play greater role in the cash-lite programme that started in Lagos on January 1.
Microfinance Focus, December 27, 2011: The joint UNCDF-UNDP project ‘Nepal Rastra Bank-Enhancing Access to Financial Services (NRB-EAFS) project has recently registered and uploaded information of all its partner microfinance institutions on MIX Market.
A New Year for microfinance is fast approaching, and if we’ve learned anything lately, it’s that you can’t be too prepared.
MIX Market, an important tool to research and analyze MFIs, is one place to begin that preparation. You may find the MIX useful for your year-in-review — and beyond.
Just a few years ago the idea of common indicators for the impact investing space was still abstract and vague. In 2010, the JP Morgan report on the state of the impact investing industry indicated that only 2 percent of impact investors used third party systems for social impact measurement; the vast majority applied proprietary systems.
Día de clausura de la Cumbre Mundial. Reponiendo algo de energías en su hotel, en el centro de Valladolid, la directora de Desempeño Social del MIX, Micol Pistelli, se prestó generosa a dialogar con Microdinero sobre los avances en el reporte que las IMFs hacen a la plataforma MIX Market de sus datos sociales, junto a los financieros.
Hyderabad: The 2010 crisis in Andhra Pradesh has halted the rapid expansion of the Indian micro-finance market, causing a large number of micro-finance institutions (MFIs) in the state to become unsustainable.
A study from the Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX), which collects data on over 90 Indian MFIs to understand the impact of the crisis on the market, shows that a deceleration in the market through March 2011.
(Andina). Las instituciones microfinancieras (IMF) peruanas lideran el ránking de “Las mejores Entidades Microfinancieras de América Latina y El Caribe en 2011” al incluir en la lista de las 100 mejores de la región a 25 entidades del país y liderar la lista general.
Last week , Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) announced the launch of MIX Silver—a value-added, fee-based service for business users that furthers MIX’s mission of promoting financial inclusion and fostering transparency in the microfinance sector.
In a bid to boost the microfinance sector and educate people able micro finance policies,, Microfinance Information Exchange “MIX” has launched MIX Silver - a value-added, fee-based service for business users.
In a rapidly changing microfinance ecosystem, these new solutions address users' need for timely data and deeper microfinance insight.
The blue spiral-bound book in the Manhattan office of Women’s World Banking Chief Executive Officer Mary Ellen Iskenderian preserves advice from a little- known microfinance expert: President Barack Obama’s mother.
