Monday, April 12, 2010
Event Name: Microinsurance Summit Miami
Event Date: May 26 – May 28, 2010
Event Location: Miami, Florida, USA
Event Website: http://www.hansonwade.com/events/microinsurance-summit-miami-2010/index.shtml
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Cost:
(Conference and two workshops) USD 2999
(Conference and one workshop) USD 2599
(Conference only) USD 1999
Discounts available for representatives of nonprofit organizations and groups of three or more. For more information, see http://www.hansonwade.com/events/microinsurance-summit-miami-2010/fees.shtml
Summary of Event:
Microinsurance Summit Miami consists of a two-day conference and two additional workshops the day after the conference. The event organizers aim to help participants understand how to scale up microinsurers while maintaining profitability. Continue Reading »
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Bhartiya Samruddhi Finance Ltd. (BSFL), an Indian microfinance institution that is a member of the BASIX Group, recently entered into a strategic partnership with Micro Home Solutions (MHS), a social enterprise based in India that provides housing to poor urban residents. Continue Reading »
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Unitus Inc., an international nonprofit organization that supports microfinance institutions (MFIs); the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a US government agency that invests in international development projects; and Citi Microfinance, Citi’s organization that aims to support MFIs, recently finalized a USD 15 million credit facility that aims to help foster growth among MFIs. Continue Reading »
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
LeapFrog Investments, an international for-profit microinsurance fund, recently announced that it had raised an additional USD 65 million in commitments, bringing the fund’s total to USD 112 million. Continue Reading »
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the lending arm of the World Bank, recently made a USD 2 million equity investment in AccessBank Tajikistan to help the new bank expand the availability of credit for micro- and small enterprises. Continue Reading »
Monday, March 29, 2010
Event Name: Mobile Money Transfer Africa
Event Date: May 4 – May 7, 2010
Event Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Event Website: http://www.mobile-money-transfer.com/africa
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Cost: Prices range from USD 1799 to USD 3397 depending on which parts of the event participants wish to attend. Group discounts are available.
Summary of Event: The event is comprised of a one-day pre-conference workshop, a two-day conference and one-day of site visits to the local offices of M-PESA, a mobile-phone based money transfer service, and Grameen Foundation, an international organization that provides support to microfinance institutions. Continue Reading »
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Event Name: Third Annual Global Microfinance Investment Congress
Event Date: May 24 – May 26, 2010
Event Location: New York, New York
Event Website: http://www.microfinancecongress.com/
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Cost: Congress only – USD 1595; Congress and Workshop – USD 2095. Discounts available for early registration (by March 26 and by April 16) as well as a USD 200 discount MicroCapital Monitor subscribers.
Summary of Event: The Global Microfinance Investor Congress intends to provide a place for representatives of microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs), microfinance institutions (MFIs) and other industry stakeholders to meet, collaborate and share best practices. Continue Reading »
Thursday, March 25, 2010
The Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB’s) Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a fund that finances micro- and small enterprises (MSEs); the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), a member of the IDB that helps small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) gain access to finance; and the Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), an institution that mobilizes financial resources in Latin America, recently launched the Microfinance Growth Fund (MIGRoF), a facility expected to provide the equivalent of USD 250 million in medium- and long-term loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America and the Caribbean. Continue Reading »
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Event Name: Global Microinsurance Summit
Event Date: June 30 – July 1, 2010
Event Location: Paris, France
Event Website: http://www.c5-online.com/microinsurance.htm
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Cost: GBP 850 (USD 1282) for microfinance institution representatives, GBP 999 (USD 1507) for investment fund representatives and GBP 1399 (USD 2110) for others. Discounts for registration before April 30 are available.
Summary of Event: The Global Microinsurance Summit aims to provide a platform for interaction and information exchange between microinsurance providers and investors. Continue Reading »
Thursday, March 25, 2010
According to the Bharat Microfinance Report released by Sa-Dhan, an organization of microfinance institutions in India, the portfolio of NGO microfinance institutions (MFIs) grew 97 percent to INR 351 billion (the equivalent of USD 7.7 billion) in 2009. Continue Reading »
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES), a federal public finance company, recently announced changes to its microcredit program that could double the number of disbursements to microfinance institutions (MFIs) and expand its portfolio by 50 percent from BRL 80 million (the equivalent of USD 44.4 million) to BRL 120 million (the equivalent of USD 66.6 million). Continue Reading »
Monday, March 22, 2010
The Kenyan Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) recently commissioned a survey of the country’s microinsurance market in an attempt to facilitate the penetration of microinsurance through policy reforms. Continue Reading »
Friday, March 19, 2010
Norddeutsche Landesbank (NORD/LB) Luxembourg’s Horizont investment fund, a mutual fund that invests in a variety of asset classes such as inflation-linked bonds, gold and microfinance, recently invested roughly three percent of its volume in the European Fund for Southeast Europe, an international organization that provides financial support to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in southeast Europe [1]. Continue Reading »
Friday, March 19, 2010
Westpac Banking Corporation, an Australian commercial bank, announced that it would begin to offer matching funds for loans made by its employees to poor entrepreneurs in the Asia-Pacific region through the microfinance site http://www.goodreturn.org, which allows individuals to make loans to microentrepreneurs via microfinance institutions. Continue Reading »
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
By Shardul Agrawala and Maëlis Carraro, published by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), February 2010, 38 pages, available at: http://www.microfinancegateway.org/gm/document-1.1.4705/02.pdf
This paper examines 22 microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Bangladesh and Nepal to determine areas in which microfinance may be able to facilitate adaptation to climate change. Continue Reading »
Monday, March 15, 2010
CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor), a policy and research center; Deutsche Bank, a European commercial bank with a microfinance program; Grameen-Jameel, a company that provides support to microfinance institutions (MFIs); and the Islamic Development Bank, an international finance institution, recently announced the Islamic Microfinance Challenge, a contest intended to promote the innovative design of Shariah-compliant products for Islamic microfinance clients. Continue Reading »
Monday, March 15, 2010
The MasterCard Foundation, a private Canadian foundation that supports microfinance; CARE Canada, an international humanitarian organization; and the Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC), a nonprofit organization that supports international development, recently announced that they are providing CAD 9 million (the equivalent of USD 8.8 million) to fund two new programs that aim to extend savings services to 900,000 residents of Tajikistan and Rwanda. Continue Reading »
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group; IBM, a multinational computer corporation based in the United States; and Republic Bank Ltd., a commercial bank in the Caribbean, recently launched a free, online platform that aims to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) improve their performance. Continue Reading »
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