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Monday, October 1, 2007
2007 SEEP NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 22 – 26, 2007, WASHINGTON, D.C.
The Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP) Network will host its 2007 Annual Conference, themed, “Powering Connections” in Washington, D.C. SEEP’s mission is to connect microfinance and microenterprise practitioners via a global learning network. The 2007 conference will allow participants opportunities to learn, to share, and to engage each other through training sessions, workshops and networking. Expected conference participants will include practitioners, donors, investors and other key stakeholders in microfinance and microenterprise industry.
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Monday, October 1, 2007
TBLI (Triple Bottom Line Investing) 2007 EUROPE
NOVEMBER 15-16, PARIS, FRANCE
Brooklyn Bridge-TBLI Group, the Dutch consultancy and conference organiser specializing in triple bottom line investing, is hosting what it claims to be the largest regular global event on Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) in November. The event will have participants and speakers from microfinance institutions (MFIs), as well as investment bankers, social entrepreneurs, fund managers, researchers, environmentalists and all kinds of SRI stakeholders from around the globe.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
MICROFINANCE FOR THE INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORJANUARY 14-15, 2008, NEW YORK, USA
The event, hosted by Financial Research Associates, is designed to help institutional investors understand the world of microfinance and allow them to identify low-risk market-rate returns while alleviating poverty. The conference will review microfinance institutions and capital management in-depth and will cover specific topics such as microfinance rating methodology, securitization techniques and portfolio risk reduction strategies. There will be speakers and keynote presentations from some of the leading microfinance players. Continue Reading »
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
The Sustainable Finance Summit 2007 took place in London yesterday and today (September 18-19). The event was hosted by Ethical Corporation, an independent publisher, conference organizer, and outspoken advocate of responsible business practices worldwide. One of the topics covered at the summit was “Tapping into the £300 billion microfinance market.” Day one of the conference, Head of Global Microfinance at Citigroup, Robert Annibale presented a case study on Citigroup Global Microfinance’s joint venture with Compartamos, a partnership that won the FT Sustainable Deal of the Year award 2006. Continue Reading »
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
MICROFINANCE IN RUSSIA: BUILDING AN ALL-INCLUSIVE FINANCIAL SYSTEM
NOVEMBER 15-17, 2007, MOSCOW, RUSSIA
The National Partnership of Microfinance Market Stakeholders (NAMMS), a non-profit partnership of individuals and organizations dedicated to microfinance proliferation, and the Russian Microfinance Center, a non-profit organization that promotes microfinance in Russia, jointly present “Microfinance in Russia: Building an All-Inclusive Financial System” to take place in Moscow, Russia, November 15-17, 2007. Continue Reading »
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
MICROFINANCE IN CENTRAL ASIA: ROAD AHEAD
SEPTEMBER 20-21, 2007, DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN
The Association of Micro Finance Organizations of Tajikistan (AMFOT) and the Central Asia Micro Finance Alliance (CAMFA) have announced its fifth annual regional conference to be held in Dushanbe,Tajikistan. The conference will be conducted simultaneously in Russian and English. Participants are expected from government, banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs), international institutes, support funds, rating agencies and international investors that specialize in financing banks and non-bank microfinance programs. Continue Reading »
Monday, August 27, 2007
CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE 2007 ANNUAL MEETING – SEPTEMBER 26-28, 2007, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA
The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) is a non-partisan, global effort to bring together world leaders to discuss pressing world challenges in education, energy and climate change, global health and poverty alleviation. At the core of the CGI is its annual meeting which began in 2005 and is designed as a working session to generate innovative solutions to problems across the globe. The CGI is a project of the William J. Clinton Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by US President Clinton, which aims to strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence.
The 2007 meeting will include over 1,000 leaders from business, non-government organizations (NGOs), foundations, academia and government. The meeting will be held September 26-28, 2007 in New York City and offers various concurrent working sessions each day on the four primary areas of focus. Continue Reading »
Thursday, August 23, 2007
NEXT GENERATION ACCESS TO FINANCE: GAINING SCALE AND REDUCING COSTS WITH TECHNOLOGY AND CREDIT SCORING – SEPTEMBER 17-19, 2007, WASHINGTON, D.C., USA
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group dedicated to private sector development and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a consortium of public and private development agencies working together to expand access to financial services for the poor in developing countries, are working together with VISA International, a global card services and payment processing provider, to organize a microfinance technology conference entitled, “Next Generation Access to Finance: Gaining Scale and Reducing Costs with Technology and Credit Scoring.” Continue Reading »
Thursday, August 16, 2007
LDM Productions, a French production company, and the United Nations Development Programme, a multilateral development assistance network, are working together to produce a full-length feature film that explorers the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Continue Reading »
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
OCTOBER 3-5, 2007,
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR
This tenth annual event is organized by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and the Ministry of Economy of El Salvador. The conference targets practitioners in Latin America and the
Caribbean, but is also open to those from other regions. It will offer
four categories of technical sessions: 1) “Microfinance” sessions will focus on microfinance products and services, as well as exploring new technologies and methodologies on how to expand access to financial services; 2) “Financial Markets” sessions will be centered on new financial market development that allow micro-enterprises and low-income groups to access financial resources; 3)
“Entrepreneurship and Markets” will explore new models and partnerships to serve low-income markets and create opportunities for business growth; 4) “Business Environment” will target public sector strategies to advance regulation, improve formalization and tax regimes and secure transparency in the micro-enterprise sector.
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Monday, August 6, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Source: Financial Times
Article available here.
Microfinance is quickly becoming a popular corner of the capital markets as more investment banks and wealthy philanthropists such as George Soros and eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar see the business of providing small loans to low-income individuals in poor countries as potentially profitable as well as a powerful tool for development. Continue Reading »
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
GlobeFunder is a global online lending engine for small loans scheduled to launch in October 2007. The concept of the company is as follows: to assist consumers globally with lower borrowing costs while providing a new marketplace for investors to earn profitable returns. GlobeFunder‘s leadership focus is as a scalable provider of loan funding at market-driven interest rates (see interview with GlobeFunder Co-founder and CEO Brian Mullally at P2P-Banking.com blog).
Continue reading “MICROCAPITAL STORY: New Online For-Profit Microfinance Lending Engine GlobeFunder Closes Seed Round of Funding at USD 1.5 Million”
Monday, July 23, 2007
Grameen Foundation has succeeded into the quarter-finals of the American Express Members Project Contest, an online competition sponsored by the US-based credit card company. Surviving through the second round of voting, Grameen Foundation, leader of an international microfinance network, is now within the top 25 organizations entering into the contest’s semi-finals.
Continue reading “MICROCAPITAL STORY: American Express Cardholders Put Grameen Foundation in the Top 25 of the American Express Members Project Contest”
Thursday, July 19, 2007
AUGUST 20-23, 2007, KAMPALA, UGANDA
The event is sponsored by the Association of Microfinance Institutions of Uganda (AMFIU). The conference targets practitioners, policy makers, donors, researchers, consultants, academics as well as any parties interested in microfinance and in providing banking services to the poor. The conference will take place at the Speke Resort, Munyonyo,
Kampala, Uganda from Monday 20 to Thursday 23 August 2007.
The following will be the main topics of the conference: segmentation; management of risk for clients; management of risk for financial institutions; value chain financing; cutting the edge/innovations in formal, semi-formal and informal institutions; and the role of public sector support (see event details at microfinancegateway.org).
Continue reading “MICROCAPITAL STORY: Upcoming Events: 3rd African Microfinance Conference: New Options for Rural and Urban Africa”
Friday, July 13, 2007
MICROINSURANCE CONFERENCE 2007
NOVEMBER 13-15, 2007, HYATT REGENCY IN MUMBAI, INDIA
The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) Working Group on Microinsurance, international research organization Munich Re Foundation, and Indian government-run Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) have scheduled the third annual Microinsurance Conference. The cost to attend is USD 490; representatives of non-profits from developing countries, however, are eligible for the USD 100 discount price.
Continue reading “MICROCAPITAL STORY: Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) Working Group on Microinsurance, Munich Re Foundation, and India’s Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) Host Microfina”
Monday, July 9, 2007
Software developer AESX Platforms AVV plans to announce the creation of MFDAQ, a capital trading exchange for the share capital of microfinance institutions (MFIs). The announcement will take place at the Microfinance Conference at the London Stock Exchange on July 13, 2007 (see June 22, 2007 story),
Continue reading “MICROCAPITAL STORY: Alternative Electronic Stock Exchange Platforms AVV (AESX) to Publicize Creation of Microfinance Capital Market MFDAQ at Microfinance Conference in London”
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