Meet the Practitioner: Savings in Pakistan from SEEP Network on Vimeo.
Thanks for joining us to hear Aban Haq, Chief Operating Officer of the Pakistan Microfinance Network and Jesse Fripp, Vice President of Shorebank International reflect on savings in Pakistan via video streaming.
Over the past few years, PMN and SBI have teamed up to investigate small savings mobilization resulting in several important … Read More >
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Thanks for joining us for the live video interview with Guy Stuart, Executive Director of Microfinance Opportunities. Guy provided feedback on the recently released Savings as a Cornerstone, a report on the state … Read More >
More than one-third of the world’s population lack access to financial services, including a savings account. Safe, reliable, and easily accessible savings services are essential to helping the poor out move out of poverty but are lacking in many parts of the world. In order to address this issue, SEEP member Grameen Foundation created the Microsavings … Read More >
Robert is a mobile money agent in Ghana. He tries to teach his customers how to use their cell phones to perform seemingly straight forward transactions: check account balances, deposit money and transfer cash. But unfortunately, Robert ends up exactly where he started: with the client’s cell phone in his hand performing transactions on behalf … Read More >
Over the past thirty years, with the support of donors, NGOs, civil society and the private sector, the microfinance field has attained considerable achievements:
More than 150 million individuals today, who previously had remained outside the financial markets, have gained access to financial services (Roodman, 2011).
Hundreds of micro lenders (NGOs, commercial banks, others … Read More >
This was originally posted on the Center for Financial Inclusion blog at ACCION on August 14.
Several years ago the Council of Microfinance Equity Funds (CMEF) created a small booklet containing governance guidelines for microfinance institutions. The booklet quickly became a minor classic: it was translated into multiple languages and dozens of MFIs used it as a guide … Read More >
