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# Friday, May 04, 2012
At Mobile World Congress 2012, Amdocs, a leading provider of customer experience systems, today announced the launch of Amdocs Mobile Payments. The new solution is a cloud-based gateway, enabling mobile operators to quickly, securely and cost-effectively scale their mobile payments business for both prepaid and postpaid customers to open new revenue streams. Mobile payments that are charged via the carrier offer consumers the convenience of charging purchases directly to their mobile phone bill, prepaid balance or mobile wallet.
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# Tuesday, May 01, 2012
That’s a key question facing bankers these days, given the cost of establishing a mobile offering and the accelerated pace at which the mobile landscape is evolving.


The short answer is “yes”—if you go about it right.
Tuesday, May 01, 2012 2:34:42 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Wednesday, April 04, 2012
We often celebrate companies and individuals once they've achieved undeniable success, but shun their disruptive thinking before reaching such a pinnacle. Before Oprah was Oprah, before Jobs was Jobs, they were labeled as misguided dreamers rather than future captains of industry. You tend to hear about startups when they are successful but not when they are struggling. This creates a systematically distorted perception that companies succeed overnight. Almost always, when you learn the backstory, you find that behind every “overnight success” is a story of entrepreneurs toiling away for years, with very few people except themselves and perhaps a few friends, users, and investors supporting them.
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# Thursday, March 01, 2012
Some 15,400 kilometers away from Vancouver, B.C., farmers in the southern African nation of Zambia have seen their crop yields improve thanks in part to a small group of Canadian engineers. Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/Engineering+students+encouraged+think+globally/6232493/story.html#ixzz1oSpxEsW4
Thursday, March 01, 2012 8:15:25 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [1] -
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# Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Is mobile banking worth chasing?
That’s a key question facing bankers these days, given the cost of establishing a mobile offering and the accelerated pace at which the mobile landscape is evolving.
The short answer is “yes”—if you go about it right.
Tuesday, November 08, 2011 11:24:31 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [3] -
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# Friday, November 04, 2011
Two young University of Washington graduates launch an innovative new type of micro-lending company called Lumana, helping entrepreneurs in rural Africa to create sustainable businesses.
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# Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Microfinance has largely become a city-based endeavor, but one example suggests it would be more useful if focused on rural communities. Microfinance -- the practice of personal small loans to spur creativity in developing nations -- has well-known rural roots.
Tuesday, November 01, 2011 7:58:07 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Thursday, October 20, 2011
So-called “impact investors” -- providers of capital to businesses that solve social challenges while generating a profit -- are the current rage in economic development.
US President Barack Obama’s Office for Social Innovation and Civic Participation recently convened more than 100 practitioners to discuss how impact investing could be unleashed in the United States and the developing world.
Thursday, October 20, 2011 5:54:06 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Thursday, October 13, 2011
"ONE is about justice, not charity," he says. "It's about the shared value of every human life. That's why we're here -- to bring this to people's attention and to do something about it. …Your voice together with mine together with millions of others makes a big difference."
Advocacy group ONE is gaining support for its efforts to end the critical famine in Somalia with its new PSA effort, "The F Word: Famine Is the Real Obscenity." The PSAs, which debuted last week online and on TV, have already inspired more than 200,000 people worldwide to sign the organization's petition to end famine.
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# Saturday, September 10, 2011
It is time for the academic community to come to the aid of an old and ailing friend — the “science” of technological knowledge. In other words, rather than relying on individual fields of study to come up with new bits of “technology”), we must study technological advancement as a process itself, across disciplines. The time is right; recent advances in the management of technology have laid the necessary groundwork to do so.
Saturday, September 10, 2011 7:03:34 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [3] -
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# Thursday, September 08, 2011
Lynne Maher can see the NHS entering a new phase in its development of IT. National programmes are becoming less of an issue, and there will be a stronger emphasis on new ideas coming from the ground up.
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# Monday, August 29, 2011
Dr. Sabine O'Hara, Owner and Principal of Global Ecology LLC, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in international business education and sustainable development.

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Monday, August 29, 2011 6:43:16 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Monday, April 04, 2011
Sprint Nextel Corp. plans to start a service this year that will allow customers to make purchases with their mobile phones, ahead of a similar initiative from rivals Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA.
Monday, April 04, 2011 8:10:30 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Friday, April 01, 2011
The Sun is reporting that animal behavior experts have kindly handed out iPads to Gorillas. Amazingly not a SINGLE one of the five tablets which download apps has been broken since being given out at Port Lympne wild animal park three weeks ago.
Friday, April 01, 2011 5:54:00 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Thursday, March 31, 2011
The Ethisphere Institute, a New York City think tank, has just announced its fifth annual list of the World's Most Ethical Companies. The selection, open to every company in every industry around the globe, gives its winners an opportunity to trumpet their do-gooding ways. It is not a ranking, so they are all equally winners.
Thursday, March 31, 2011 8:14:22 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Wednesday, March 30, 2011
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman gave a speech today about how entrepreneurs can “invent the future”. Speaking at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, he recited a list of 10 rules of entrepreneurship.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:37:51 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Since launching in late 2008, deal-of-the-day website Groupon has emerged as one of the hottest web startups on the planet. Serving more than 250 markets worldwide and boasting more than 35 million users, Groupon is the poster child for a rapidly growing company. One of the reasons Groupon has continued to succeed and expand over the past two and a half years is because the company has managed to keep the pace with its business. Tracking deal performance across locations and business types is an important part of Groupon’s business. Groupon uses a number of different tracking solutions so that it can generate internal reports, as well as offer reports to business owners.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 6:41:27 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Monday, March 28, 2011
Electronic payment provider VeriFone has a front seat for what it calls the “gold rush for NFC” – the race to deliver products and services related to Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.
Monday, March 28, 2011 8:20:44 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Saturday, March 26, 2011
Do you have women in key positions? If you’re planning on targeting female customers, I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t want to have great women on your team. Women are the routers and amplifiers of the social web. And they are the rocket fuel of ecommerce. The ongoing debate about women in tech has been missing a key insight. If you figure out how to harness the power of female customers, you can rock the world.
Saturday, March 26, 2011 6:18:24 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Friday, March 25, 2011
The ageing global population will be what will drive market for sophisticated domestic robots, which have hitherto been lacking, according to the founder of Microsoft's robotics division. Tandy Trower has a vision to design a socially assistive robot to help the elderly or infirm.
Friday, March 25, 2011 7:13:26 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Wednesday, March 23, 2011
A day after U.S. assistant secretary of state for south and central Asian affairs Robert Blake appealed to the Bangladeshi government to reconsider its dismissal of 70-year-old microfinance guru Muhammad Yunus from the Grameen Bank, IPS spoke with the president and CEO of Women's World Banking (WWB), currently the most comprehensive network of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the world. She dismissed the notion, which is swiftly gaining momentum in many quarters, that microcredit is ineffective as a sustainable method of poverty alleviation and must be replaced.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 6:46:08 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Monday, March 21, 2011
Microfinance USA is the conference where the nation's leading microfinance champions exchange ideas and information that set the agenda for the future of the field. Join the conversation with expert practitioners, top investors, and frontline researchers to explore and expand microfinance in the U.S.
Monday, March 21, 2011 10:43:45 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Tuesday, March 08, 2011

7 Women Leaders Speak On The Role Of Microfinance In Women's Entrepreneurship
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 4:30:48 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Thursday, February 24, 2011
Recent microfinance crises and debate over the practices of microfinance institutions (MFIs) have made it more apparent than ever that financial performance should not be the only standard by which MFIs should be evaluated. To measure an MFI's overall performance, social performance management -- the process of ensuring that an MFI acts in a socially responsible manner -- has emerged as a critical factor. Thanks to the support of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX), the industry's leading source for financial and social performance data, now offers funders and other stakeholders easy access to social performance information in conjunction with financial performance information. As part of its ongoing mission to enhance transparency in the microfinance industry, MIX has taken major steps both to integrate social performance reporting with standard financial reporting and to enhance data access.
Thursday, February 24, 2011 7:30:12 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Friday, February 18, 2011
Microfinance has taken a beating lately for shifting far afield from its humanitarian origins, originally funding tiny businesses run by poor women in developing countries to feed their families. It's become a good idea gone bad, a charitable enterprise spoiled as profit surpassed people as the rationale for investment. It sickens the soul. But all is not lost. A new concept in which the interest charged on a microloan isn't a percentage, but rather an improvement to a community, has seen early success in Haiti. Although small in scale, this model might be just the thing to help microfinance rebound as an effective, credible and responsible method of funding small businesses lacking capital that don't qualify for loans from traditional banks. The concept comes from Zafèn, an online microfinance initiative approaching its first anniversary on April 1.
Friday, February 18, 2011 7:47:06 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Sunday, January 16, 2011

NetSuite Inc., the industry’s leading vendor of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced the latest social enterprises to benefit from a NetSuite.org product donation. NetSuite.org is NetSuite’s unique corporate citizenship program, which enables growing social enterprises to access product donations of NetSuite’s cloud-based business software service that helps deliver increased productivity, reduced operating costs, and improved organizational flexibility.
Sunday, January 16, 2011 9:06:34 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [3] -
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# Friday, January 14, 2011

Services called Microfinance plus services can be regarded as interesting in the framework of integrated development. Since these services include social and sanitary dimensions, indeed we can reasonably consider Microfinance to have a great potential as a powerful social and sanitary tool. Nonfinancial services can be powerful development tools in many environments and communities, provided they are designed with the populations and with care to respond to the real needs of the populations served; they can even be of greater importance to rural women via whom, their families and their whole communities can benefit from them and be empowered.
Friday, January 14, 2011 8:36:33 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Friday, January 07, 2011

Former US vice-president Al Gore took part in the 2011 Global Urban Development Forum in Beijing. Gore said Thursday China and the United States -- the world's biggest polluters -- should work on designing greener cities as part of their efforts to tackle climate change.
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# Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Top emerging economies are forging research collaborations to help the less well-off. The idea that poorer countries should catch up economically with wealthier ones before spending heavily on R&D was challenged by a report released last week. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report contradicts theories widely held by development professionals and international organizations such as the World Bank.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 9:04:03 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [3] -
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# Sunday, January 02, 2011

The Global Alliance for Banking on Values, a network of the world's leading sustainable banks, announces four new members today from South America, North America, and Europe. The banks join nine founding banks committed to building a better financial future in challenging times.
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# Thursday, December 30, 2010
Our biggest ally will be lost if we do not protect and enhance biodiversity in forests and other systems. Since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the media and many organisations have pursued as separate narratives the issues of climate, biodiversity and sustainable development. One of the changes this year, at a UN level, has been recognition that this does not make sense.
Thursday, December 30, 2010 4:56:47 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Wednesday, December 29, 2010
The Golf Environment Organization's GEO Legacy Guidance launched to widespread acclaim following previews at the Asia Pacific Golf Summit in Bangkok and the European Golf Course Owners Association Conference in London.
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# Monday, December 27, 2010

IBM unveils its fifth annual "Next Five in Five" -- a list of innovations with the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. The Next Five in Five is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as emerging technologies from IBM's Labs around the world that can make these innovations possible.
Monday, December 27, 2010 4:21:00 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Saturday, December 18, 2010
64.6% of black Americans and 32.7% whites will face poverty, study says
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# Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Using Skype as a medium, a lecture at the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business was broadcast to UNC students along with students at other schools. The streamed lecture was part of an ongoing series that allows students to have access to the most prominent minds in microfinance.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:35:39 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Saturday, November 20, 2010

Claudia Kennedy, Member of Opportunity's Board of Advisors and First Woman U.S. Army Lieutenant General, Encourages Individuals to Recognize Their Power to Improve People's Lives Around the World.
Saturday, November 20, 2010 10:17:24 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Monday, November 08, 2010
WAM began in 2003 after women professionals in the microfinance industry, most of them based in Washington, DC, began meeting, at first informally in each others' homes. This growing group of WAM Founders came together to discuss areas of common concern, to decide if a more formal organization made sense, to explore what such an organization might do to support women who work in the microfinance industry and, ultimately, to support the development of the industry itself. After several months of planning and program design, WAM was formally launched in October 2003. Membership has grown steadily since.
Monday, November 08, 2010 9:21:32 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Probanx Information Systems specializes in development of software for the financial institutions, offering multi-currency and multi-lingual banking systems with a large variety of modules, based on the latest technologies. We install and support turn-key international Banking Software and Microfinance Software solutions for retail banks, commercial banks, Internet banks and microfinance banks.
Tuesday, November 02, 2010 10:56:44 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Friday, October 29, 2010
A new initiative to expand these programs to the broader market called the Small Business Banking Network (SBBN) will launch in November. The SBBN is designed to bolster the capacity and effectiveness of financial institutions to profitably serve small businesses in developing countries, helping to close the gap between microfinance and commercial banking.
Friday, October 29, 2010 4:55:41 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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In their book "Sustainable Excellence", Aron Cramer and Zachary Karabell make a compelling case for why a focus on sustainability -- whether it concerns, for example, climate change, energy consumption or labor relations -- is now a form of enlightened self-interest for businesses. For starters, commodity prices have been soaring as investors wake up to a world marked by rapid population growth and overstretched resources.
Friday, October 29, 2010 3:29:08 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Why the time is right for sustainable thinking by pension funds and institutional investors: When Roger Urwin, global head of investment content at Towers Watson, the investment consultant, turns his mind to a subject, the pensions world listens. Urwin, one of the most influential investment advisors around, has worked with many of the world’s largest retirement schemes. His recent attention to the theme of sustainable investing is notable because of his experience in the reality of pension fund practice and governance.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 3:09:28 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Enterpreneurs | Ethical Bank | Financial Crisis | G20 | IMF & World bank | Innovation | Microfinance | Microfinance Solutions | Opinions | Sustainable | USA | Volumteers | World
# Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Participants gathered at Deutsche Bank’s Wall Street office for the second day of the Microfinance Impact and Innovation Conference. Panelists included both academics and practitioners, sharing research and experiences from the field. They attempted to tackle the daunting question: how do you design credit products that work for the poor, not against them?
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 2:56:40 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Banking Solutions | Credit | Europe | Microfinance | Microfinance Solutions | Strategy | Sustainable | USA | World
# Friday, October 22, 2010

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) at Colorado State University provides innovative training in community-based development (online and face-to-face), consultation, evaluation, and project support services for individuals and governmental, international non-governmental, and community-based organizations around the world.
Friday, October 22, 2010 7:27:56 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Africa | Asia | CGAP | Donor | Education | Foundation | IMF & World bank | In the News | Microfinance | Microfinance Solutions | NGOs | Organisation | Rural | South America | Sustainable | USA | USAID | Volumteers
# Thursday, October 21, 2010

Village Earth's mission is to help reconnect communities to the resources that promote human well-being by enhancing social and political empowerment, community self-reliance and self-determination.
Thursday, October 21, 2010 7:39:48 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Africa | Asia | Donor | Education | Foundation | IMF & World bank | Micro Credit | Microfinance | Microfinance Solutions | NGOs | Organisation | Poor | South America | Sustainable | USA | USAID | Volumteers | World
# Wednesday, September 29, 2010
The number of pregnant women being tested for HIV and accessing treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa has shown significant progress – indicating that virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of the virus by 2015 is possible.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 7:00:59 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Africa | African Development Bank | Health | In the News | Strategy | UNDP | USA | USAID | World
Lots of banks are getting on board with basic mobile banking this year, but there's not been too much innovation when it comes to functionality. A handful of banks are leading the way with widely available capabilities that set them apart from the pack.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:22:45 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Banking Solutions | Customer | Enterpreneurs | In the News | Innovation | Internet | Microfinance Solutions | Mobile | Security | Service Platform | Software | Strategy | Technology | USA
# Thursday, August 05, 2010
Three years ago, Loretta Nguyen took a business training class and scraped together several thousand dollars to start silk screening T-shirts and hoodies that she initially sold at street fairs and over the Web.
Thursday, August 05, 2010 6:47:37 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Donor | Education | Enterpreneurs | Innovation | Micro Credit | Organisation | Sustainable | USA | Volumteers | Women
# Sunday, July 18, 2010
Mobile payment users worldwide are forecast to increase 2.1 percent to 109 million by the end of 2010, a US-based research firm said in a report.
Sunday, July 18, 2010 10:04:04 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Africa | Arab World | Asia | Australia | Banking Solutions | Customer | Education | Enterpreneurs | Financial Crisis | In the News | Innovation | Internet | Micro Payment | Microfinance | Microfinance Solutions | South America | Technology | USA | World
# Friday, July 09, 2010
Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. Our 37,000 people help clients in more than 100 countries use technology to seize opportunities, overcome challenges and succeed in the global economy. We offer business solutions led by our expertise in consulting and systems integration, outsourcing, network services and security – coupled with leading enterprise-class server and related technologies.
Friday, July 09, 2010 5:25:26 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Banking Software | Banking Solutions | Core Banking | Internet Banking | Microfinance Software | Microfinance Solutions | Software | USA | World
# Monday, July 05, 2010
The axiom "give a man a fish, feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime" is widely accepted among the international development community, and for good reason. But taken on its own, this axiom leaves out very important principles.
Monday, July 05, 2010 8:17:59 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Ecology | Education | Enterpreneurs | NGOs | South America | Sustainable | UNDP | USA | USAID | Water
# Sunday, July 04, 2010
The second day of ‘Microfinance Cracking the Capital Market’ Conference began with an insightful perspective on future Institutional Investments in the Indian microfinance space. Victoria White, Vice-President and Director, India, ACCION and Alok Prasad, Country Manager-Microfinance, Citi India welcomed the audience with a brief remark on the need and future prospect of institutional investments which the industry requires.
Sunday, July 04, 2010 8:06:33 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Asia | Enterpreneurs | In the News | India | Microfinance | Opinions | Strategy | USA | World
# Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Small businesses are turning to nontraditional lenders as banks reject many loan applications following the credit crunch.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:57:09 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Enterpreneurs | Microfinance | USA
# Sunday, June 27, 2010
World leaders put the finishing touches on plans to build a more stable global economy on Sunday but backed away from one-size-fits-all pledges as two years of crisis give way to an uneven recovery.
Sunday, June 27, 2010 7:34:50 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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With our focus so firmly fixed on the tension between the U.S. accent on stimulus and the deficit preoccupations of Canada and Europe, the question of China’s place in the G20 has been pushed a bit to the side of this weekend’s summit.
Sunday, June 27, 2010 7:30:09 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Asia | China | G20 | In the News | USA
The G-20 is the premier forum for our international economic development that promotes open and constructive discussion between industrial and emerging-market countries on key issues related to global economic stability. By contributing to the strengthening of the international financial architecture and providing opportunities for dialogue on national policies, international co-operation, and international financial institutions, the G-20 helps to support growth and development across the globe.
Sunday, June 27, 2010 12:31:03 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Africa | Asia | Europe | G20 | Organisation | South America | USA | World
# Saturday, June 26, 2010
Asian currencies dropped this week, led by South Korea’s won, as concern Europe’s debt crisis will worsen outweighed the benefits to the region of China’s decision to end the yuan’s two-year peg.
Saturday, June 26, 2010 7:41:31 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Asia | Financial Crisis | USA | World
# Friday, June 25, 2010
The Senate has confirmed the appointment of former CGAP CEO Elizabeth Littlefield to head the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).
Friday, June 25, 2010 7:50:11 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
CGAP | In the News | Microfinance | USA | Women
# Tuesday, June 22, 2010
The global micro finance body set up by World Bank has elected India's Vijay Mahajan as Chairman of its Executive Committee.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 5:41:39 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Asia | CGAP | In the News | India | Microfinance | Poor | USA
# Sunday, June 20, 2010
The Green Plus Sustainable Enterprise Awards were created to help smaller enterprises learn the best practices of triple bottom line sustainability – strong financial, environmental, and community performance – from one another.
Sunday, June 20, 2010 8:36:40 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Ecology | NGOs | Software | Sustainable | USA | World
# Tuesday, June 08, 2010
The conditions for investment and growth in Peru prompted IBM to develop a center to provide microfinance services in this South American country. Jaime Garcia Echecopar, general director for IBM in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay, announced the launch of this project.
Tuesday, June 08, 2010 8:18:20 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Enterpreneurs | Microfinance | Service Platform | Software | South America | Strategy | Sustainable | USA
# Sunday, March 14, 2010
If Atlanta was the crucible from which these two movements sprang forth, why shouldn't Atlanta also be the place where a third movement will also originate - a third movement that will complete the sustainability triad and anoint Atlanta as the birthplace of sustainability?
Sunday, March 14, 2010 10:20:18 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Strategy | Sustainable | USA
# Sunday, February 28, 2010
Silicon Valley company Bloom Energy revealed its heavily hyped and closely guarded solid oxide fuel cell on Wednesday, heralding the technology as a likely clean-tech game-changer. The system is already in use by companies like Google, eBay, FedEx, Staples and Wal-Mart.
Sunday, February 28, 2010 8:45:32 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Climate | In the News | Innovation | Software | Strategy | Sustainable | Technology | USA
# Friday, February 26, 2010
A permanent Calendar about the events of the FWA. The Financial Women’s Association brings together high achieving professionals from every sector of the financial world.
Friday, February 26, 2010 10:46:42 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Microfinance | Microfranchising | NGOs | Organisation | USA
# Thursday, February 25, 2010
In reaction to the financial crisis, the U.S. banking industry and its regulators have been forced to seek new consumer protections that will put the industry on stronger ground. In marked contrast, one global subsector of the financial industry is moving proactively to ensure that client protection remains at the core of its business model. That subsector is microfinance, the provision of loans and other financial services to the poor worldwide.
Thursday, February 25, 2010 10:39:15 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Credit | Microfinance | NGOs | Organisation | Poor | Strategy | USA
# Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Angel Acquisition Corp. ("Angel Acquisition Corp." or the "Company") (OTCBB: AGEL) announced today that the Company has signed a financing agreement with a Private Investor to partner with Angel's new micro financing, micro banking and micro lending network www.angelsinaction.tv
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:03:16 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Enterpreneurs | Microfinance | Organisation | Technology | USA
# Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Bankers without Borders, a nonprofit that recruits finance executives to volunteer their time and expertise at microfinance projects in developing countries, has secured a $3m grant from JPMorgan Chase to expand the programme.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010 11:42:16 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Africa | Microfinance | Poor | USA | Volumteers
# Monday, February 08, 2010
Microfinance, perhaps best known as a means of helping small business owners in developing countries move out of poverty, is one source already in place in the United States. These organizations make small loans and other financial services available to low- and moderate-income businesses.
Monday, February 08, 2010 11:38:59 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Enterpreneurs | Financial Crisis | Microfinance | NGOs | Opinions | USA
# Wednesday, February 03, 2010
MicroRate is the first rating agency dedicated to measuring the performance of microfinance institutions ("MFIs"). MicroRate's rating teams visit MFIs and "kick their tires". Statement of Damian von Stauffenberg Chairman and Founder MicroRate. Committee on House Financial Services Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 9:27:13 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Microfinance | Opinions | USA
# Tuesday, February 02, 2010
USAA is offering mobile banking to customers that have Google’s Android-powered smart phones. USAA launched its Deposit@Mobile application for the Apple iPhone last year. Since then, USAA customers have deposited more than $300 million worth of deposits using their iPhones.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010 2:37:37 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Banking | Innovation | Mobile | Software | USA
# Monday, February 01, 2010
"The relief effort is intense right now, and we know that Haiti needs food, water and medicine immediately, but Haiti will also need foundational support for it's economy"
Monday, February 01, 2010 2:18:30 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Food Crisis | In the News | Microfinance | NGOs | Poor | USA
# Sunday, January 31, 2010
Bill and Melinda Gates announced plans Friday to invest $10 billion in the fight against a number of illnesses including AIDS and said the record donation could save nearly nine million lives. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, they said the 10-year program will focus on vaccines for AIDS, tuberculosis, rota virus and pneumonia.
Sunday, January 31, 2010 9:40:28 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Africa | Enterpreneurs | NGOs | Poor | Software | USA | World
# Saturday, January 30, 2010
Is Mobile Banking Safe: Redefining Mobile Security through App Verification Author: Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com
Saturday, January 30, 2010 2:49:54 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Innovation | Mobile | Opinions | Security | Software | Technology | USA
# Sunday, November 01, 2009

Probanx Information Systems specializes in development of software for the financial institutions, offering multi-currency and multi-lingual banking systems with a large variety of modules, based on the latest technologies. We install and support turn-key international Banking Software and Microfinance Software solutions for retail banks, commercial banks, Internet banks and microfinance banks.
Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:19:21 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Kiva.org -- the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website -- has launched a pilot expansion in the United States, allowing individuals anywhere to make small loans to U.S. entrepreneurs through the Kiva.org website.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 3:47:42 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Enterpreneurs | Financial Crisis | Micro Credit | Microfinance | Software | USA
# Wednesday, June 03, 2009
There is a banker who is still feted across the world, collecting accolades and honours wherever he goes. The institution he founded more than 20 years ago is unscathed by the current financial crisis, and his opinion is more sought after than ever before as politicians and economists desperately try to fix our bankrupt system. Muhammad Yunus is to economic development what Nelson Mandela is to world peace.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009 3:43:41 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Asia | Financial Crisis | Food Crisis | France | Innovation | Micro Credit | Microfinance | Poor | Sustainable | USA | Women
# Saturday, May 30, 2009
Be sure to read Founder, Dana Dakin’s Story of how she traveled to Ghana in 2003 on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday to find a village and start a microlending program.
Saturday, May 30, 2009 5:23:39 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Africa | Enterpreneurs | Micro Credit | Microfinance | NGOs | Opinions | USA | Women
# Wednesday, May 13, 2009
ACCION's Maria Otero to Serve as One of Six Under Secretaries of State; Tapped to Lead U.S. Foreign Relations on Democracy, Human Rights, Labor, Population and More.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:25:43 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Microfinance | Organisation | South America | USA
# Monday, May 04, 2009
During The Aspen Environment Forum Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan presented the King Hussein Leadership Prize which recognizes outstanding leadership in promoting human rights, sustainability and world peace. And the winner was Bob Freling, Executive Director of an American non profit called SELF -- the Solar Electric Light Fund, which has been solar-powering villages around the world.
Monday, May 04, 2009 3:26:40 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Africa | Arab World | Asia | Enterpreneurs | In the News | NGOs | Poor | South America | Sustainable | Technology | USA
# Monday, April 27, 2009
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialized agency of the United Nations, has announced the theme for its annual World Intellectual Property Day to be held on April 26 will be “promoting green innovation as a key element in meeting the challenges of climate change”. In his message to mark the day, WIPO Director General Francis Gurry highlights the contribution that a balanced intellectual property (IP) system can make in enabling the development of technology-based solutions to mitigate the impact of climate change.
Monday, April 27, 2009 10:36:24 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Innovation | Strategy | UNDP | USA | World
# Sunday, April 26, 2009
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, known as the "banker to the poor" for making small loans in impoverished countries, is now doing business in the center of capitalism — New York City. Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus greets borrowers at a Grameen America open house at St. John's University in New York on Saturday.
Sunday, April 26, 2009 12:39:07 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Asia | Enterpreneurs | In the News | Micro Credit | Microfinance | Poor | Strategy | USA
# Friday, April 24, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama announced a new partnership of the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), and the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) for the purpose of launching a new Microfinance Growth Fund for the Western Hemisphere. The fund will provide stable medium and longer-term sources of finance to microfinance institutions and microfinance investment vehicles to help rebuild their capacity to lend during this difficult period and to increase the supply of finance for micro and small businesses as recovery takes hold.
Friday, April 24, 2009 6:58:40 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Enterpreneurs | Inter-American Development Bank | Micro Credit | Microfinance | Organisation | South America | USA | USAID
# Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Although Aneesh Chopra is a new name for most, he is well know in Virginia as Governor Tim Kaine's Secretary of Technology. For the Commonwealth, he was charged with leading the state's strategy to effectively leverage technology in government reform. If his strategy for the state can be used as an indicator for his plans in President Obama's administration, you should take a look at Virginia's Strategic Plan for Information Technology.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:09:12 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Innovation | Software | Technology | USA
# Wednesday, April 15, 2009
What happens when you travel to Argentina to learn how to play Polo? You start a sustainable and socially conscious shoe company. Of course... Well, that is exactly what happened to Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS shoes.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 8:34:19 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Customer | Enterpreneurs | In the News | South America | Sustainable | Technology | USA
# Tuesday, April 14, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama gave a spirited defense of his economic strategy on Tuesday, saying there were signs of progress in battling the recession, but "by no means are we out of the woods just yet." In his most comprehensive speech on the U.S. economic downturn, now in its 16 month, Obama offered no new policies but gave a detailed review of the steps he has taken to rescue the economy and rebuffed critics who say he is spending with "reckless abandon."
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 7:21:22 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
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# Monday, April 13, 2009
The global micro-credit industry has been hurt by the financial crisis but loan defaults by the world's poor remain low and private equity money will still fuel growth, a micro-finance group said. But Women's World Banking, billed as the world's biggest network of micro-finance institutions, said micro-financiers were struggling to raise funds to loan to the poor because of soaring borrowing costs and predicted growth would slow sharply.
Monday, April 13, 2009 6:09:22 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Micro Credit | Microfinance | Poor | USA | Women | World
According to a report in the Financial Times and an article from the Microfinance Gateway, fledgling microfinance projects are helping to revive the Iraqi economy after years of public sector dominance, a decade of sanctions, and six years of violence. The US, and specifically its military, is actively involved in these microfinance schemes as part of its war on terrorism. The projects typically involve loans of a few thousand dollars given to people with between one and three employees. By the end of January 2009, the US had made 41,728 loans, totaling USD 59.7 million.
Monday, April 13, 2009 5:51:49 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Arab World | Enterpreneurs | Micro Credit | Microfinance | USA | USAID
# Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Sites like Prosper and Lending Club must adjust to SEC oversight. For some people, the communities of small borrowers and lenders extend a credit lifeline. Just when it might have proved most useful, peer-to-peer lending has been severely hamstrung by the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission's efforts to get a regulatory handle on the fledgling industry. With the credit crisis making it harder and harder for cash-strapped households and small businesses to get bank loans, the opportunity for creditworthy applicants to borrow up to $25,000 from strangers at slightly higher interest rates was seen as something of a godsend.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009 7:17:22 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Credit | Micro Credit | Microfinance | Peer 2 Peer Lending | USA
# Saturday, April 04, 2009
Cloud-computing technology has come along way. For example a single server can host several virtual servers on one machine. That is a simple example of cloud-computing. Cloud-computing is when any virtualised resources are provided as a service. This is expected to become a huge industry. And this is now concerning the Microfinance Institutions.
Saturday, April 04, 2009 5:46:01 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Enterpreneurs | Financial Crisis | In the News | Microfinance | Software | Technology | USA | World
# Friday, April 03, 2009
President Barack Obama wrapped up his first international summit by declaring the event “historic” and a “turning point” toward recovery from a worldwide recession. Obama, who used personal diplomacy to help push through an agreement on regulations and emergency aid, said he and his counterparts at the Group of 20 summit are taking “unprecedented steps” to prevent another financial crisis.
Friday, April 03, 2009 3:46:57 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Financial Crisis | France | G20 | USA | World
# Thursday, April 02, 2009
While the industry has grown at a healthy 30% in recent years, the future of microfinance rests on modern approaches to scaling the industry and leveraging the entrepreneurial energy employed in Silicon Valley.
Thursday, April 02, 2009 8:32:40 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Microfinance | Strategy | Technology | USA | World
# Tuesday, March 31, 2009
New York based Women's World Banking (WWB) has signed on UBA Microfinance Bank as its only network partner in Nigeria. With the admittance of the microfinance subsidiary of United Bank for Africa Plc as a network partner of the WWB, UBA Microfinance Bank has joined the global network of partner microfinance institutions and banks including ASA, the number 1, and other top 9 Microfinance Finance Banks in the world.
Monday, March 30, 2009 11:34:28 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Africa | Microfinance | Nigeria | USA | World
# Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Non-profit Kiva.org plans to launch system of small loans in the U.S.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:40:17 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Credit | Microfinance | Poor | USA
# Thursday, March 19, 2009
Forget multibillion-dollar bailouts. Muhammad Yunus thinks the solution to the global financial crisis can be found in loans of much smaller size, backed with more prosaic assets: ducks, chickens, and cows. Microcredit could soon spread across the stricken U.S. as big banks contract. On the strength of local invitations, Grameen is considering setting up shop in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Omaha, Neb., where Susan Buffett, daughter of resident sage Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway approached the bank.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:15:39 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] -
Financial Crisis | Microfinance | Sustainable | USA | World
# Sunday, February 01, 2009
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Sharing the writing of a book about Microfinance.
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The world's first person-to-person micro-lending website.
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Owen's interests in reducing global poverty. From Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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