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Category Archives: Allgemein
Banking agents in Peru…
CGAP recently launched a CGAP brief “Driving Scale and Density of Agent Networks in Perú” based on a CGAP-led research on 26,000 banking agents and 24 million monthly transactions to describe the relationship among factors that will help these agent networks to … Continue reading
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Kenya Financial Diaries – How do low-income households manage their money ?
Wouldn´t it be great to better understand the financial lives of low-income clients? How they prefer to save, to whom they lend money to borrow from them at a later stage, how many times they experience a family emergency, etc. … Continue reading
Another global, messy, problem? BANKING!
I just found another blog about The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which just launched their Annual Letter showing clearly that after having taken on global problems like the design of toilets and condoms even creating urine-powered fuel cells, their … Continue reading
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Investing in LMDF? I get 5 times what I would get at the bank!
I guess many of you have also been disappointed by current rates on savings accounts, money market funds, etc. In June 2014, in Luxembourg, I would have gotten 0,4% at the Spuerkees, at Fortuna, and BGL, and 0,5% at ING. … Continue reading
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Tagged investment funds, Luxembourg
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“Twenty little Procredits….
Some were laughing and thought I was crazy, some got really angry at me for asking an obvious question, others wanted to better understand the underlying strategy. And for me the topic is almost personal. I spent 3 years as … Continue reading
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Tagged greenfields, Honduras, Latinamerica, Nicaragua
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Does inclusive finance exclude agricultural producers ?
I am not sure if this title is really what was meant with the presentation given by a federation of cooperatives from Niger, FUCOPRI. INFINE, the Inclusive Finance Network in Luxembourg, had invited Thierry Defense, Director of SOS Faim who … Continue reading
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Tagged agricultural finance, farmers
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Innovating in the PAMIGA network – the story of Buusaa Gonofaa in Ethiopia
Buusaa Gonofaa is one of 14 Pamiga network members which I visited during the networks CEO meeting in November 2014. Just to list a few characteristics, Buusaa Gonofaa
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Tagged Ethiopia, social performance
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Pamiga´s CEO Meeting 2014
It happened on November 5-6, 2014, it happened in Debre Zeit in Ethiopia, and it involved the CEOs of around 14 MFIs from 10 African countries all dedicated to innovating around rural finance and representing 1 million clients living in … Continue reading
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WSJ: Mobile Money – the battle for Africa
The Wall Street Journal article describes how mobile phone payments grow in Africa and how operators are rushing to get a piece of the often very lucrative pie. The GSMA reports 219 mobile money deployments worldwide of which 52% are … Continue reading
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More Kinshasa in tunes..
It has always been very exciting to talk about music in the DRC. Congolese music is famous around Africa. However, in my blog from 2008 “Kinshasa in tunes…” , I was writing more about sounds you find on the streets, … Continue reading
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