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Product Development for Microfinance Part 3: Innovation in India
How can you provide reliable, flexible, convenient, and continuous service to clients in rural areas? This was the question IFMR sought to answer when the first KGFS branch launched in 2008. 100 branches later, they're thriving. Learn more about the KGFS model in our interview with IFMR Trust's Dave Wallack.
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Latest in the Library
check out these new resources Information Systems: A Practical Guide to Implementing Microfinance Information Systems
Braniff. L. & Faz, X.
2011 Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Snapshot
Sapundzhieva, R., Babayev, A. & Tomilova, O.
India Focus Note 86: Microinsurance Product Types in India
Mukherjee, P.
Beyond Financial Services - Improving Access to Basic Financial Services and Agricultural Input and Output Markets by Smallholder Farmers in Zimbabwe
Conroy, K. & Panetta, D.
Savings as Forward Payments: Innovations on Mobile Money Platforms
Mas, I. & Mayer, C.
Targeting the Ultra Poor
Morduch, J.
Announcements
Call for Submission of Annual Institutional Action Plan: Microcredit Submit Campaign (21 Feb 2012)
FirstBank of Nigeria Signs MoU with Mobile Money Service Providers (20 Feb 2012)
Call for Applications: BWTP's Exposure Visit to ASA Bangladesh (17 Feb 2012)
Financial Literacy Program Completed in Bosnia & Herzegovina (17 Feb 2012)
Enda Inter-Arabe Issues RFP for Strategy and Risk Management Project (15 Feb 2012)
FSD Kenya Releases Latest Edition of its Newsletter (15 Feb 2012)
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News & Opinion
India: "MFIs an attractive option for NBFCs looking at banking foray: Eric Savage" (21 Feb 2012)
"Hong Kong Microfinance Pilot Scheme Approved" (21 Feb 2012)
"Number of China's Micro-Lenders Rise 64 Percent" (21 Feb 2012)
Swaziland: "National Credit Bill underway" (21 Feb 2012)
"IFC supports agri-leasing in Tajikistan" (20 Feb 2012)
"Microfinance in Bangladesh: It's Not What You Thought" (20 Feb 2012)
"Rwanda’s micro-finance assets up" (20 Feb 2012)
Kenya: "Jamii Bora Bank Gets Sh200 Million Loan From Women's Fund" (17 Feb 2012)
"Mexico’s National Council for Financial Inclusion" (17 Feb 2012)
Philippines: "BSP Tightens Rules On Micro-Agri Loans Of All Banks" (17 Feb 2012)
"Client Protection Legislation should Not Be Punitive to the Industry" (16 Feb 2012)
"Head of Brazil’s Central Bank Financial Inclusion Team Speaks to CGAP" (16 Feb 2012)
Nigeria: "Banking the unbanked, still the CBN’s major hurdle" (15 Feb 2012)
"World Bank Lends US$25 Mln To Peruvian Company" (15 Feb 2012)
Upcoming Events
Delinquency Management
19 Mar - 21 Mar 2012, Philippines
Social Enterprise Development Partnerships, Inc.
BWTP's Exposure Visit to ASA Bangladesh
16 Apr - 18 Apr 2012, Bangladesh
Banking with the Poor Network & ASA International
Business Planning and Financial Projections with Microfin
30 Apr - 04 May 2012, United States
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