The MIX: In response to the clear mandate that we have received from you and your peers, I am excited to announce that this summer, with the generous support of Omidyar Network, MIX will release a series of premium, fee-based services designed to better meet the business needs among our users, while furthering our mission of transparency.
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MicroCapital: MFTransparency, a US-based nongovernmental organization (NGO) that aims to provide information on credit products and pricing, is expanding its Transparent Pricing Initiative to the Philippines in partnership with Microfinance Council of the Philippines, a trade association of microfinance organizations in the Philippines, and Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines (RBAP), a Philippines-based organization founded in 1955 to promote the rural banking industry.
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CGAP Microfinance Blog: Owing to its innovative program design and practices, microcredit reaches many poor people who lack access to formal finance. This is clearly a major gain that protects the poor and other disadvantaged groups from resorting to informal loans at extortionate rates.
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Kenya Women Finance Trust: KWFT’s social performance commitment was also expressed by various disclosures and reports to interested institutions including MicroFinance Transparency (MFT) and the Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) Market.
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Oikocredit: MicroFinance Transparency has published microloan product pricing data for the Indian microfinance market on its website. The data submitted by 82 Indian microfinance institutions account for approximately 80% of the estimated total Indian market.
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Microenterprise Access to Banking Services: Brought to you by MicroFinance Transparency (MFTransparency), the Microfinance Council of the Philippines (MCPI) and the Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines (RBAP), this workshop features microfinance experts Chuck Waterfield, MFTransparency CEO and President, and Alexandra Fiorillo, Vice President for Global Programs.
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Making Finance Work for Africa: Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya, has urged banks and financial institutions in the country to lower their lending interest rates to help facilitate credit access to the population, Bloomberg reports.
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Colombia Reports: There will numerous presentations at the conference addressing issues such as the state of the microfinance industry, the opportunities it presents for Latin America, challenges for the industry in 2011, and price transparency in Colombia.
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The MIX: Thanks to the support of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX), the industry’s leading source for financial and social performance data, now offers funders and other stakeholders easy access to social performance information in conjunction with financial performance information.
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Microfinance Africa: MFTransparency and the Grameen Crédit Agricole Microfinance Foundation have partnered to host the West African Transparent Pricing Workshop on Thursday, March 3rd in Dakar, Senegal. This groundbreaking event will bring together microfinance practitioners, networks, government officials and regulators for a one-day training workshop to promote pricing transparency standards followed by a half-day conference on current topics in West African microfinance markets.
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