MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Credit Bank, FSD Kenya Engaging SACCOs in Effort to Reduce Remittance Costs for Rural Kenyans

The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) recently announced a pair of programs that will operate in Kenya under the EU’s Platform for Remittances, Investments and Migrants’ Entrepreneurship in Africa (PRIME Africa). In particular, IFAD will fund

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Applications for $60k Arab Financial Inclusion Innovation Prize (AFIIP) Open Through June 25, 2021

The organizers of the Arab Financial Inclusion Innovative Prize (AFIIP) are now accepting applications from financial services practitioners to compete for an award of USD 60,000 plus technical assistance in implementing their ideas. In past years, AFIIP has offered a financial inclusion prize for innovation in Arab nations that improves financial services catering to poor people as well as