The 2012 Microfinance Banana Skins highlights concerns about overindebtedness, a serious issue that goes to the heart of the mission of microfinance: client welfare.
The Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, together with Citi and Visa Inc., announced the launch of the Financial Inclusion 2020 campaign. FI2020 aims to realize full financial inclusion by widening responsible access to credit, payment tools, savings and insurance. Read More
Citi has provided a US$2 million Jordanian Dinar equivalent loan to support the growth of the microfinance portfolio of Tamweelcom, a leading microfinance institution (MFI) in Jordan and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Read More
Citi joined members of the Better Than Cash Alliance for a roundtable discussion at the WEF with thought leaders from government, banking, information technology, NGO, agriculture and consumer industries. Read more.
Submissions for the 2013 FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards: Urban Ideas in Action program are now being accepted. The 2013 Awards will recognize those who have implemented original ideas that have made life better for people living and working in cities from city administration, transport systems, energy and utilities, education and resource management, to housing, health, social services, and mobile technologies, among others.
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