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# 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Technology | USA | Security
# 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 | 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 | 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 | 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] -
Financial Crisis | In the News | Sustainable | USA | World
# 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 | 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 | 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
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