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How Do Migrant Workers Move Money in India?
To better understand just how costly making remote payments can be for poor households, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commissioned the Centre for Micro Finance at the Institute for Financial and Management Research (IFMR) and the Reserve Bank of India’s College for Agricultural Banking to survey 274 domestic Indian migrants and their families living at opposite ends of four domestic remittance corridors.
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Boosting the Business Case for Agents
FINO was founded on 13th July, 2006 with the single objective of building technologies to enable financial institutions (FIs) to serve the under-served and the unbanked sector and also to service the technology requirements of entities engaged in servicing the bottom of the pyramid customers.
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CGAP Releases Agent Management Toolkit
CGAP’s Agent Management Toolkit aims to demystify the process of building a viable agent network. The toolkit is based on more than a year of research that yielded data on more than 16,000 agents with institutions in Brazil (Banco do Brasil and Banco Postal), India (EKO and FINO), and Kenya (M-PESA).
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Social Protection and Financial Inclusion
The 2010 Global Expert Colloquium on Savings and CCTs was co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation, Citi, UNDP, New America Foundation and Proyecto Capital.
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Highlights from the CGAP Technology Blog – October 2010
The launch of TigoPesa in Tanzania was the headline on our blog starting in October.
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Branchless Banking 2010: Is the Hype Justified?
After several years of very high profile attention on mobile money and other branchless banking schemes, we think it’s time to test the hype. Or more accurately, we’ve wanted to for awhile.
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Priorities for Branchless Banking (Part 1 of 3)
It is easy to foresee that in the future normal neighborhood stores will be used by poor people everywhere to conduct basic financial transactions, that technology based on real-time communications will be used to make those transactions reliable and secure, and further that providers will increasingly rely on people’s own mobile phones rather than on deploying cards and dedicated point of sale terminals.
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What Is Che Guevara Doing in this Bank?
We often think of branchless banking without looking at the nonprofits working in the community for social and economic development.
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Branchless Banking in Brazil: Making it Work for Small Merchants
The agent economics around branchless banking can be a complicated subject.
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