MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Al-Qutaibi Funding Renewable Energy Products, Climate Adaptation Strategies for SMEs, Farmers in Yemen in Collaboration with USAID

Yemen’s Al-Qutaibi Islamic Bank for Microfinance recently launched its Vendor Finance Department to support farms and other small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in acquiring technology to produce renewable energy as well as “climate-smart” farming tools such as “solar-fed irrigation systems, greenhouses, and tunnel farming tools.” The bank did this with support from the

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: YCash Partnering with Red Cross on Digital Payments, Offering Door-to-door Service Due to COVID-19 Pandemic, Conflict in Yemen

YCash, a company in Yemen also known as the National Cash Transfer Company, recently partnered with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a humanitarian organization based in Switzerland, to provide cash transfers to ICRC clients “through