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Eventi Internazionali

6th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise

Luogo: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: EMES

dal 03-lug-17 al 06-lug-17

The aim of this 6th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise is to be one of the world’s central meeting places for all researchers involved in social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and social and solidarity economy research across the globe.

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Financial Education for Citizen Empowerment.

Luogo: Venice, Italy

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: EMN

dal 22-giu-17 al 23-giu-17

The 14th edition of this high-level meeting will take place in Venice, Italy, on 22-23 June 2017. The Island of San Servolo will serve as the unique location for the event, which will include a pre conference day on the 21st June. The EMN Idea Lab for the conference is currently hard at work to set the workplan for next year's meeting and the agenda is taking shape.

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5th European Microfinance Research Conference

Luogo: Portsmouth, UK

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: University of Portsmouth, CERMI, European Microfinance Platform

dal 12-giu-17 al 14-giu-17

The objective of the 5th European Microfinance Research Conference is to draw together ideas from Europe and beyond which tackle the inclusion problem. How do MFIs ensure they reach the financially excluded? How can microfinance products be tailored to meet the specific needs of different groups amongst the financially excluded? How can new instruments as agent banking and mobile money be put at the service of the poor? How can the microfinance sector keep its identity as a relevant development tool while facing ‘old’ problems (poverty, gender discrimination, client over-indebtedness, etc.) as well as new challenges such as the impact of climate change and the refugee crises? Research has a crucial role in addressing these questions.

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Asia Pacific Financial Inclusion Summit 2017

Luogo: Hanoi, Vietnam

Tipo: Summit

Organizzatore: Citi Foundation

dal 21-mar-17 al 22-mar-17

Organized by the Citi Foundation and the Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC) , in partnership with the Banking with the Poor Network (BWTP) and the Economist Group (http://www.economistgroup.com/), the Asia Pacific Financial Inclusion Summit will explore the forces driving change in the region, the emerging opportunities and what the next generation of financial inclusion in the region will look like.

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13th Annual Global Microfinance Forum

Luogo: Prague, Czech Rep.

Tipo: Forum

Organizzatore: Uni-Global

dal 16-mar-17 al 17-mar-17

Uniglobal’s 2day forum will cover a wide range of topics which makes this forum appealing to MFIs and banks, as well as to private investors and development organizations. Included in the speakers are the largest private and public investors in microfinance, commercial banks and development organizations from all over the world.

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Geodata for Inclusive Finance and Food

Luogo: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: Rabobank

dal 16-feb-17 al 00-gen-00

As Rabobank’s strategy is focused on Banking for Food, and leading in agrifinance, they are the natural partner in promoting the use of these technologies in banking. Since much is unexplored yet from an organizational and economic point of view, the aim of the conference is threefold: 1. inspiration 2. knowledge exchange 3. networking.

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4e Assises Internationales de la Coopération et du Mutualisme

Luogo: Paris , France

Tipo: 

Organizzatore: Université Paris Dauphine

dal 03-feb-17 al 00-gen-00

Ces Assises réuniront des dirigeants de groupes coopératifs et mutualistes européens, en présence d’élus, d’intellectuels, d’économistes, et de leaders d’opinion. En marquant la force et l’actualité du modèle coopératif, en posant le socle de sa refondation, elles marqueront l’émergence d’une voix forte et originale dans le débat économique national mais aussi européen, et dans la recherche essentielle pour le devenir de nos sociétés, d’une voie de sortie de crise efficace et pérenne.

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Launch of the Principles for Positive Impact Finance

Luogo: Paris , France

Tipo: Launch event

Organizzatore: UNEP FI and Paris EUROPLACE

dal 30-gen-17 al 00-gen-00

With the expected participation of Michel Sapin, French Minister for the Economy and Finance, M. Gérard Mestrallet, Chairman, Paris EUROPLACE and high-level representatives of financial institutions involved in the Positive Impact initiative, the event will gather approximately 100 participants including commercial banks, investors, insurers, corporations, rating agencies, analysts, auditors and public sector representatives from central and municipal governments, multilateral and development banks, and UN bodies.

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3 Giornata Nazionale della Microfinanza

Luogo: Naples, Italy

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: RITMI

dal 27-gen-17 al 00-gen-00

 

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European Microfinance Summit

Luogo: Barcelona, Spain

Tipo: Summit

Organizzatore: Euroevents

dal 26-gen-17 al 27-gen-17

The focus is not only on microbusiness, but also on students, green Microfinance, rural and agricultural finance, innovators who have bright ideas or scientific research.

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Financial Services: Are We Realising their Full Potential?

Luogo: London, UK

Tipo: Forum

Organizzatore: Financial Inclusion Forum

dal 19-gen-17 al 00-gen-00

Digital financial services are now being touted as the answer to financial inclusion. But there are growing concerns that DFS primarily focuses almost exclusively on payments – not least of all because the mobile network operators are leading the charge, and banks typically remain laggards. Having asked the poor to run the marathon out of poverty on one leg (microcredit), are we doing the same again by asking them to run the race with digital payments alone? We know that the poor need a range of financial services (savings, credit, insurance and payments) and thus real financial inclusion must necessarily provide all of these.

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Microfinance in Europe: Converging path in Eastern and Western European Microfinance

Luogo: ,

Tipo: Webinar

Organizzatore: European Microfinance Network

dal 19-dic-16 al 00-gen-00

 

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Islamic microfinance: A solution to expand financial inclusion?

Luogo: ,

Tipo: Webinar

Organizzatore: ADA

dal 14-dic-16 al 00-gen-00

The global Muslim population counts about 2 billion people but over 70% of them, living in Muslim majority countries as Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sudan, do not use formal financial services. Despite the expansion of institutions providing credit and loan services in developing countries, still only 0.5% of global microfinance institutions offer the services and products responding to Islamic financing principles (CGAP survey, 2008). In the context of an evident huge demand for the expansion of these financial products and services, the development of Islamic microfinance is still in its infancy. As this tool has the potential to serve currently unbanked, how can the Islamic microfinance sector reach the scale required?

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EU Conference on Over-Indebtedness

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: EFIN - ADLE - European Parliament

dal 07-dic-16 al 00-gen-00

EFIN and Sylvie Goulard MEP, with the support of the ALDE group, organise a conference dedicated to the EU initiatives to tackle and prevent over-indebtedness. Organised at the EU Parliament, the conference will allow participants to learn more about the EU initiative on Personal Insolvency on the one hand, and on the potential strategy to elaborate on the appropriate use by the Financial industry of Big Data, for so called "financial inclusion". It will give you the opportunity to meet and debate with representatives of the EU Commission (DG just), the EU Parliament and EBA, the European Banking Authority.

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Community Social Entrepreneurship Seminar Program

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: CERMI

dal 05-dic-16 al 06-dic-16

Panel Conference: The potential of community social enterprises for social inclusion and poverty alleviation

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Matching for Credit: Implications for Econometric Analysis and Market Design

Luogo: Mons, Belgium

Tipo: Research seminar

Organizzatore: CERMI

dal 01-dic-16 al 00-gen-00

In many markets, agents form matches subject to rules. Consider a microfinance institution that decides on rules to diversify jointly liable borrower groups with respect to their exposure to common income shocks. Such rules affect group repayment by influencing both the group composition (direct effect) and the decision to take a loan (participation effect).

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Green Microfinance

Luogo: ,

Tipo: Webinar

Organizzatore: MFC Microfinance Centre

dal 27-nov-16 al 00-gen-00

 

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Second European fi-compass conference on financial instruments under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: European Commission

dal 25-nov-16 al 00-gen-00

The aim of the conference is to raise awareness on how financial instruments can help deliver the objectives of the EAFRD, especially in the fields of agriculture and agri-business. The conference will: outline the major EU rural development policy objectives in relation to use and implementation of financial instruments under the EAFRD; stimulate exchange and discussion on advantages, features, and the general suitability of financial instruments in delivering rural development programme (RDP) objectives; inform stakeholders about the fi-compass advisory platform support to Member States and managing authorities and on the further support available from cooperation between the European Commission and European Investment Bank Group for agriculture and rural development.

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The Two Faced Moral Economy of Microfinance

Luogo: Leichester, UK

Tipo: Presentation

Organizzatore: University of Leichester

dal 23-nov-16 al 00-gen-00

The presentation discusses the meaning of moral economy in neoliberal capitalist societies and presents an empirical study of the twofaced, moral economy of consumer microfinance (i.e., online lending to the poor as popularized form of philanthrocapitalism), and comments on the evolution of moral rhetoric surrounding the microfinance industry.

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Borrow Wisely Campaign 2016 – summary and lessons learnt

Luogo: ,

Tipo: Webinar

Organizzatore: Social Performance Task Force (SPTF)

dal 23-nov-16 al 00-gen-00

 

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5th annual Responsible Business Forum on Sustainable Development

Luogo: Singapore, Singapore

Tipo: Forum

Organizzatore: UNDP

dal 22-nov-16 al 24-nov-16

The 5th Responsible Business Forum (RBF) on Sustainable Development in Singapore on 22 – 24 November 2016, will examine each of the 17 SDGs in depth with case studies and perspectives from businesses, governments, UN agencies, investors and international experts. Building on the introduction to the UN Sustainable Development Goals at RBF 2015, this year’s forum will help companies better understand the SDGs and the opportunities in supporting governments to achieve them.

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12th International Microinsurance Conference 2016

Luogo: Colombo, Sri Lanka

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: Munich Re Foundation

dal 15-nov-16 al 17-nov-16

The 12th International Microinsurance Conference will take place in Sri Lanka from 15 – 17 November 2016. Approximately 400 participants and experts from around the world will discuss and identify ways of accelerating growth and economic viability in microinsurance. The conference will be hosted by IASL in cooperation with the Munich Re Foundation and the Microinsurance Network.

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Risk Management Excellence in Microfinance

Luogo: Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Tipo: Training

Organizzatore: ADA

dal 14-nov-16 al 18-nov-16

The main objective of the 9th edition of the training Risk Management Excellence in Microfinance is to allow the CEOs and high level executives of leading MFIs to understand the importance of the risk management and the mecanisms in order to establish infine, a specific risk management culture in their institutions.

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Cooperative banks and innovation in SME financing

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: EESC

dal 09-nov-16 al 00-gen-00

The conference brought to the forefront the raise of technology players in financial services. The focus was on the SMEs' financing and on the interaction between these new players and the cooperative and popular banks. Three roundtables offered stakeholders a chance to exchange their views on: Cooperation between crowdfunding platforms and cooperative/popular banks in SME lending: turning threats into opportunities; innovative SME Financing with EFSI: experiences and way forward; how is the regulatory framework affecting the role of co-operative banks in financing SMEs.

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Strategy, Performance & Risk Management in Microfinance

Luogo: Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Tipo: Training

Organizzatore: SIMFI

dal 07-nov-16 al 10-nov-16

SIMFI is an interactive simulation tool which learns how to lead an MFI according to good management practices. The user can visualize the direct consequences of the decisions he has taken based on virtually changing environment and market conditions.

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Climate Finance Day

Luogo: Casablanca, Morocco

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: Casablanca Finance City

dal 04-nov-16 al 00-gen-00

Casablanca Finance City organizes on November 4 in Casablanca the Climate Finance Day 2016. This conference will be in line with the COP 22 in Marrakech from November 8 to 17, 2016. Paris Europlace, which housed the event last year, will hand over the baton to CFC for 2016 edition.

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6th Annual Central Asian & Caucasus Microfinance Forum

Luogo: Bishkek, Kyrgizstan

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: Uniglobal

dal 27-ott-16 al 28-ott-16

Micro enterprises form a large percentage of total businesses in Central Asia and Caucasus. As a result facilitating credit flow from MFIs to their clients leads to sustained economic development. To continue their growth MFIs in the region need to broaden their reach and attract more clients with diverse products and a stronger funding base. Uniglobal's 2 day Forum will bring together leaders in the Microfinance industry to discuss and share the latest practices and strategies in order to take advantage of a fast changing environment.

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2nd edition of the European Microfinance Day: Non‐financial services from the Microfinance sector. A fundamental tool to cope with the refugee crisis

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: EMN

dal 27-ott-16 al 00-gen-00

As last year, the campaign will focus on a general theme. This year we want to focus on the importance of the provision of non-financial services (NFS) as a fundamental part of its support to the clients. Your video contributions should support this message with undefeatable facts and figures, but we will get to this later on.

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COOPEST 10t h ANNIVERSARY

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Inspirational dialogue

Organizzatore: CCOP EST

dal 20-ott-16 al 00-gen-00

Over the last 10 years CoopEst has marked its presence financing socially-rooted financial institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, enabling them to serve those excluded from mainstream finance. On the occasion of the 2nd European Microfinance Day, CoopEst is proud to invite to the celebration of its 10th anniversary which will be a special opportunity to reflect on the past and inspire the future perspectives for financial and social inclusion based on the CoopEst experience and lessons learned on the 10-year long journey.

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Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises’ (MSMEs’) Access to Finance in a Digital Finance Era

Luogo: Tokyo, Japan

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: ADB

dal 19-ott-16 al 00-gen-00

The discussions will range from innovative new methods for assessing SME risk to the increased reach of traditional forms of assessment such as credit scoring. Crowdfunding platform providers will present innovative, non-bank, non-collateral funding opportunities for MSMEs. The discussion will also cover the important role of regulatory frameworks and government supervision in connecting MSMEs to fund providers 

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European Forum of Microfinance

Luogo: Rome, Italy

Tipo: Forum

Organizzatore: Italian National Body for Microredit

dal 19-ott-16 al 21-ott-16

The Third European Microfinance Forum (3rd EMF) is a unique opportunity for debate and discussion among public institutions, the operators of the private sector and non-profit organizations competent in the field of economic and social development and access to credit.

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"Social Economy: economic growth and welfare"

Luogo: Valencia, Spain

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: CIRIEC

dal 19-ott-16 al 21-ott-16

This conference will deal with several topics: • Social economy: economic growth and welfare • Evaluation of the social and economic impact of the social economy • Social economy, competitiveness, innovation and sustainability • The social economy in Valencia and Spain • Business ethics and social projection of the enterprise • New legal regimes of the social economy in Spain and around the world • New theoretical approaches on social economy, third sector, economy for the common good, social enterprises and circular and collaborative economy • Public economy, social and labor policies, social cohesion and territorial development

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Microfinance for the Development of Peoples

Luogo: Rome, Italy

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: Ministry of Foreign Affairs

dal 19-ott-16 al 00-gen-00

Organised by Banca Popolare Etica in partnership with the Directorate General for International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the event will be split into two themed sessions dedicated respectively to the role of microfinance and access to credit in development cooperation programmes and to microfinance experiences and best practices in the southern hemisphere.

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“The European Code of Conduct – lessons learnt from implementation”

Luogo: ,

Tipo: Webinar

Organizzatore: MFC Microfinance Centre

dal 19-ott-16 al 00-gen-00

 

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Promoting Inclusiveness in Savings Groups: Participation of Disabled Populations

Luogo: ,

Tipo: Webinar

Organizzatore: SEEP Network

dal 19-ott-16 al 00-gen-00

The webinar, including representatives of Norwegian Association of Disabled (NAD) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS),  will demonstrate how persons with disabilities are just as able to be part of and contribute to the community and community groups as non-disabled persons.  The speakers will share some key approaches to inclusion and sustainability as well as how important social capital creation is for this population in terms of breaking down prejudice and becoming part of the community.  

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Midi de la microfinance et de l'inclusion financière : Les services bancaires mobiles et la microfinance : qu'en est-il des clients ?

Luogo: Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: ADA

dal 18-ott-16 al 00-gen-00

Les nouvelles technologies ont désormais pris une place essentielle non seulement dans la vie des Africains, mais aussi dans l’économie de certains pays du continent, devenant une source de progrès, de croissance économique et de développement. Avec l’accélération de la diffusion de l’information dans de plus en plus de pays africains, même les habitants de zones rurales sont connectés aux grandes villes et ont accès à de nouveaux services financiers.

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Progress and Future Direction of Financial Inclusion

Luogo: London, UK

Tipo: Forum

Organizzatore: European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

dal 17-ott-16 al 00-gen-00

This event is part of Financial Inclusion Week, an initiative of Financial Inclusion 2020, a research and advocacy project at the Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI) to deepen the shared understanding of what financial inclusion is, where the gaps are and the roadmap to achieve it. Financial Inclusion Week aims to build momentum around addressing the most significant gaps in financial inclusion through a week of global conversation. This year’s theme is keeping clients first in a digital world.

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Digital Inclusion, the next step...

Luogo: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: ING Bank

dal 11-ott-16 al 12-ott-16

This year’s topic of the research is the role of Financial technology (FinTech) in including micro-enterprises in low and middle income countries, as these companies are important job creators. FinTech is shaking up financial services for the poor. Mobile payment services, internet banking, crowd funding, alternative credit scoring systems and new identification technologies will revolutionize the financial landscape for businesses in the developing world. These applications contribute strongly to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially 1-5 and 8. The event explores how financial inclusion, through innovation, can further contribute in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals that are closest to the industry.

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European Week of Regions and Cities (OPEN DAYS)

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: The European Commission - DG REGIO & The European Committee of the Regions

dal 10-ott-16 al 13-ott-16

The spotlight this year is on sustainable and inclusive growth and on how to simplify structural and investment funds, with a programme of 130 workshops. Selection: 11A11 - Youth Entrepreneurship: the key to boost competitiveness and growth in the regions UNIV11B22 - The new self-employed in Europe. Do they contribute to territorial and social cohesion? INV12B19 - Promoting young entrepreneurship at regional and local level: The European Entrepreneurial Region experience 13B127 - Integrated services to NEET’s, long-term unemployed and other vulnerable groups

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16th International Symposium Teaching and Learning Entrepreneurship in Higher Education

Luogo: Riga, Latvia

Tipo: Symposium

Organizzatore: Institute for Learning in Higher Education (LiHE)

dal 09-ott-16 al 13-ott-16

The debate over whether or not entrepreneurship can be taught— i.e. can be learned— has largely subsided. And higher education has embraced with fervour the teaching and learning of venture incubators, and business plan competitions on university campuses around the world.entrepreneurship. Witness, for example, the growth of entrepreneurship centres, new venture incubators, and business plan competitions on university campuses around the world.

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“How can banks use the Universal Standards for SPM and SPI4? Experience from Kompanion Bank, Kyrgyzstan

Luogo: ,

Tipo: Webinar

Organizzatore: MFC Microfinance Centre

dal 05-ott-16 al 00-gen-00

The webinar, hosted by the Social Performance Task Force (SPTF), will be conducted in Russian.

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Why do people want money? The “money for a day” experiment

Luogo: ,

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: CERMI

dal 05-ott-16 al 00-gen-00

 

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“How can banks use the Universal Standards for SPM and SPI4? Experience from Khushhali Bank Ltd.”

Luogo: ,

Tipo: Webinar

Organizzatore: MFC Microfinance Centre

dal 29-set-16 al 00-gen-00

 

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SPTF Training of trainers on financial inclusion for refugee populations

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Training

Organizzatore: Social Performance Task Force (SPTF)

dal 28-set-16 al 00-gen-00

Its purpose is to train technical assistance providers on how to work with FSPs to develop a strategy, conduct market segment research, implement supportive policies and systems, adapt products (as needed), and manage the provision of financial products and services to refugee populations.

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Job creation in the EU

Luogo: ,

Tipo: Webinar

Organizzatore: MFC Microfinance Centre

dal 27-set-16 al 00-gen-00

The webinar “Job creation in the EU” will present the highlights from the MFC policy paper on job creation “Of Mice and Unemployed: Rethinking MicroEnterprise and Small Business Policies in the EU’.

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Financial Inclusion through Microfinance

Luogo: Skopje, Macedonia

Tipo: 

Organizzatore: The Alliance of Microfinance organizations

dal 22-set-16 al 23-set-16

The Alliance of Microfinance organizations is organizing this regional forum in cooperation with Savings house Moznosti, Savings house FULM, Microcredit foundation Horizonti and the Macedonian Enterprise Development Foundation, with the support of the USAID’ Microfinance Innovation and Inclusion Project. At the forum, there will have the opportunity to discuss different topics: 1) The key role of Microfinance in increasing financial inclusion 2) Innovative approaches in providing better access to finance 3) The current situation with Microfinance in the region, challenges and opportunities 4) The regulatory environment for Microfinance 5) Access to EU funding for microfinance

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Advanced Financial Analysis for Microfinance Practitioners

Luogo: London, UK

Tipo: Training

Organizzatore: Microfinance association

dal 18-set-16 al 23-set-16

This one week training course for MFIs will provide participants with an analytical framework and practical tools to analyse and exploit information about profitability and risk in financial statements.The program demonstrates and applies this analytical framework and a wide array of practical tools in order to emphasize the use of financial accounting information in financial decision-making contexts.

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International Conference on Sustainable Development 

Luogo: Rome, Italy

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: European centre of Sustainable Development

dal 16-set-16 al 17-set-16

The Conference theme is: "Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: research, practice andeducation". This theme emphasizes the strong foundation that is provided by using research to inform our everyday practices, policies, and analytical approaches. The 2016 Conference will once again provide a forum for the sharing of ideas, presentation of research findings, and discussion of professional issues relevant to Sustainability Science.

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Implementation of EFSI: Unlocking investment for social inclusion

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: European Association of Service providers for Persons with Disabilities

dal 08-set-16 al 00-gen-00

Social Services have significant investment needs given the rising demand for services, the important job creation that comes alongside such demand and the necessity to develop high quality, personalized and user-driven care and support services in line with the EU’s human rights principles. The European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) can be a useful tool in which to unlock investment into high quality social services and improve career paths for its workforce.  Despite this potential, only 3% of EFSI investment has been dedicated to “social infrastructure”; far below the possible contribution EFSI could make towards such a growing sector. The Seminar will aim at discussing how the EFSI could better target investment into this field, as well as tackling the many issues that arise when discussing the financing of such an important sector: quality requirements, user involvement, role of public and private financing, etc.

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Microfinance Insight Forum

Luogo: Dijion, France

Tipo: Forum

Organizzatore: Burgundy School of Business

dal 08-set-16 al 09-set-16

The 18th edition of the MIF will be centered on the revival of the focus on poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship. Certainly, we don't expect all world’s poor to be entrepreneurs, but we would like to research those who do want to start their businesses and require finance to provide them a hand up. Half the enterprises in the developed world fail within five years. It would be normal if half the enterprises of the poor fail, too.

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Boulder Rural and Agricultural Finance Program (RAFP)

Luogo: Turin, Italy

Tipo: Training

Organizzatore: Boulder Institute of Microfinance

dal 18-lug-16 al 05-ago-16

The Rural and Agricultural Finance Program launched in 2015 with the technical support of FAO and CABFIN. It is a highly specialized program offered for experienced rural and agricultural finance practitioners and institutions. The objective of RAFP is to enable inclusive and efficient food and agricultural systems, as well as promote financial inclusion by strengthening the technical capacity of service providers and those institutions serving rural SMEs and smallholder farmers. The 2016 Boulder RAFP will offer over 15 courses delivered by faculty from FAO, IFAD, the Boulder Institute of Microfinance, UNCDF, Rabobank, WOCCU, MEDA, Finance in Motion and PAMIGA.

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Micro, SME & Housing Finance Summer Academy 2016

Luogo: Frankfurt, Germany

Tipo: Training

Organizzatore: Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

dal 17-lug-16 al 22-lug-16

The main objective of this course is to understand and assess current dynamics in the Micro and SME finance community and to sketch scenarios of possible future developments. As for housing finance, focus is on conveying practical knowledge and tools for successfully managing mortgage lending operations and developing approaches and products that meet the rising demand for housing finance.

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The Second Microfinance and Rural Finance Conference

Luogo: Aberystwyth, UK

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: Aberystwyth University

dal 05-lug-16 al 06-lug-16

China-UK Microfinance and Rural Finance Conference is a forum for presentation of research results, practices, innovations in the fields of microfinance and SME finance. Contributors and participants include academia, researchers, financial service providers and policymakers. The conference is organized by the SWUFE- Aberystwyth Microfinance, Rural Finance and Agriculture Organization Joint Research Centre. It will be hosted by the School of Management and Business, Aberystwyth University (UK), in cooperation with the School of Finance, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (China), and York University Schulich School of Business.

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Transversality between the public economy and the social economy to serve the general interest

Luogo: Paris , France

Tipo: Dinner debate

Organizzatore: CIRIEC

dal 30-giu-16 al 00-gen-00

Are social enterprises and public enterprises drivers of change of the State in its strategist role, with a view to change the development model?

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fintech workshop

Luogo: Frankfurt a/M, Yerevan, Germany, Armenia

Tipo: Workshop

Organizzatore: EFSE, Central Bank of Armenia

dal 29-giu-16 al 00-gen-00

The Development Facility of the European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE DF) and the Central Bank of Armenia hosted 45 members of the country’s financial community in the capital on Monday (27 June) for a workshop on the most recent advancements in the flourishing sector of financial technology (fintech). 

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Unruly Entrepreneurs. Positive Deviance and Value Creation by Microfinance Clients in Rural Burundi

Luogo: Wageningen, The Netherlands

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: Knowledge Technology and Innovation (KTI)

dal 28-giu-16 al 00-gen-00

Katarzyina Cieslik will explore the social entrepreneurial potential of the rule-breaking practices of microfinance programs’ beneficiaries.  Her study examines the strategies employed by the poor in Burundi to bypass institutional rules. It identifies four instances of rule evasion: consumption spending, illegitimate investment, loan juggling and loan arrogation. Unruly practices are interpreted as both value-creating and entrepreneurial. The discussion addresses issues of agency and empowerment, and the definition of social value.

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19th MFC annual conference: “Microfinance in the Cloud”.

Luogo: Tirana, Albania

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: Microfinance Centre

dal 22-giu-16 al 00-gen-00

The overarching conference theme considers the space that microfinance could occupy if it fully embraces new technology, or the detachment it will suffer if it does not. But is it really a simple binary choice between technology and tradition? Can we find a “third way” to maintain the unique value of microfinance within the digital world? What does a microfinance institution need to go digital, and what are the risks? This conference will be a key platform to debate the tradeoffs, make the case for digital, and critically examine what aspects of traditional service delivery we need to preserve. Importantly, we’ll do all of this by putting the experience of real institutions under the microscope.

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European Social Services Conference

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: European Social Network

dal 20-giu-16 al 22-giu-16

 

Link

 

13th EMN Annual Conference: Who, What and for Whom? Shaping European Microfinance

Luogo: Warsaw, Poland

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: European Microfinance Network

dal 16-giu-16 al 17-giu-16

For more than 10 years, Microfinance has figured on the European agenda and shall remain there as long as we face social and financial exclusion in Europe. The number of challenges that the socially and financially excluded face has not ceased growing, and neither has the need of being responsive to these changes. Therefore, Microfinance Institutions (Who?) are increasingly offering a variety of products & services (What?) all across Europe, with the aim of satisfying the changing needs and wishes of the customers (for Whom?). However, it would seem like the definition of microfinance has not evolved in parallel over this past decade.

Link

 

Employment, Social Policy, Health & Consumer Affairs Council

Luogo: Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Tipo: Meeting

Organizzatore: Council of the European Union

dal 16-giu-16 al 17-giu-16

 

Link

 

From the Delors White Paper (1993) to the EU Pillar of Social Rights (2016), what future for the fight against poverty

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: EAPN

dal 16-giu-16 al 00-gen-00

The aim of the conference is to provide a concrete and timely input to this key consultation at European level. EAPN will provide its experience and insights into how such a Pillar could complement or build on the existing strategies such as: Europe 2020 and the European Semester and the Social OMC. The potential of the Pillar of Social Rights will be reflected upon, and links to the future role of the EU in the fight against poverty and social exclusion will be explored

Link

 

EAFRD financial instruments for agriculture and rural development in 2014-2020

Luogo: Rome, Italy

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: EIB

dal 13-giu-16 al 00-gen-00

The purpose of the seminar is: a) to provide Member States and managing authorities with an opportunity to learn more about the advantages, features and suitability of financial instruments in delivering Rural Development Programme objectives; b) to provide the opportunity to discuss in depth the technical challenges that the managing authorities and the Member States are facing at the moment in regards thedesign and set up of financial instruments; c) to present the range of support available from fi-compass, as well as from European Commission and European Investment Bank co-operation in general.

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Recent Advances in Social Finance

Luogo: Rennes, France

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: Faculty of Economics, Université de Rennes 1

dal 02-giu-16 al 00-gen-00

Carolina Laureti (CERMi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Université de Mons) presents her paper “Flexible Microfinance Products to Cope with Shocks: Evidence from SafeSave” . Anastasia Cozarenco (Montpellier Business School, and CERMi) presents her paper “Microcredit in Industrialized Countries: Unexpected Consequences of Regulatory Loan Ceilings”. Muluneh Hideto Dato (CERMi, Université Libre de Bruxelles), explains the “Differences in Governance Structures among Cooperative, Non- profit and Shareholder-owned Microfinance Institutions”. Cécile Godfroid (CERMi, Université de Mons) presents his paper “How to Reconcile Financial Incentives and Prosocial Motivation of Loan Officers in Microfinance?”

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Call for Proposals VP/2016/007 EASI programme - PROGRESS axis: Actions to boost the demand and supply side of the finance market for social enterprises

Luogo: Web, Web

Tipo: Webinar

Organizzatore: European Commission Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion

dal 01-giu-16 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

1st Forum of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR)

Luogo: Dubrovnik, Croatia

Tipo: Forum

Organizzatore: EU - DG Regio

dal 12-mag-16 al 13-mag-16

The programme is organised around two high levels. Plenary sessions: 1) For a resilient and innovative Adriatic and Ionian Region – tackling the social and economic challenges 2) Unlocking the potential of the Adriatic and Ionian Region – the added value of multilevel governance and three parallel sessions, targeting the practitioners, and providing a space for interactive exchange of experiences and opinions around the following issues: 1) Reconciling conflicting interests in a shared maritime space 2) Seeking enhanced cooperation in the transport and energy sectors 3) Smart approach for a sustainable and attractive region.

Link

 

Promotion of Savings Groups in Africa: Is the Interest Rate Mechanism Truly Appealing for the Poor?

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: CERMI

dal 02-mag-16 al 00-gen-00

Savings groups (SGs) are being increasingly promoted in Africa by development actors who seek to improve basic financial and insurance services among the poor, especially among vulnerable groups excluded from microfinance institutions. Although savings groups are inspired by the traditional and widespread rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), they differ from them as the regular contributions do not rotate but rather accumulate into a fund for the purpose of lending money for an interest to the group members.

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Can we imagine a world without banks? The intriguing experience of mobile money pioneer MPESA

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: KBC

dal 27-apr-16 al 00-gen-00

Michael Joseph will share his vision on financial inclusion and how mobile technology is creating new opportunities to provide services at the bottom of the pyramid.

Link

 

Financial Resilience Throughout Life

Luogo: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Tipo: Symposium

Organizzatore: OECD

dal 20-apr-16 al 21-apr-16

This Symposium which will be opened by the OECD Secretary-General, Angel Gurría, will encompass the following forward-looking sessions: High-level discussion on financial education challenges - Policy plenary and practical breakout sessions - Youth: Starting well and staying strong - Preparing for the unexpected - When the work is done: Creating a comfortable retirement

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Willingness-to-pay for Microinsurance and Flexibility: Evidence from an Agricultural Investment Lab-in-the-field Experiment in Senegal

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: CERMI

dal 11-apr-16 al 00-gen-00

Using data from a lab-in-the-field experiment with agricultural decision makers in rural Senegal we study the effects of agricultural insurance on investments in the secondary income earning activity of livestock farming with complete and seasonal livestock markets. In general, insurance increases investment in livestock farming. Paper presentation by Kristina Czura (University of Munich-LMU Munich, DE)

Link

 

Innovative Enterprise: Financing Ideas from Europe Conference

Luogo: The Hague, The Netherlands

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: EIB

dal 31-mar-16 al 01-apr-16

The conference is being held in The Hague in line with the Netherlands EU Presidency and has been organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation in collaboration with the EIB and EIF and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs.  Those attending will be able to take part a full two day programme of seminars, workshops, masterclasses and networking events. Innovative Enterprise is a European Commission initiative to raise awareness of the EU’s  investment programmes. The conference will give attendees the chance to learn more about  InnovFin and EFSI as well as alternative sources of funding, including crowdfunding.

Link

 

Annual convention for Inclusive Growth

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Convention

Organizzatore: European Commission

dal 21-mar-16 al 00-gen-00

The one day event kicks off with a discussion on the European Pillar of Social Rights initiative and moves on to debates in workshops about specific issues that need work if the EU is to deliver sustainable, long term inclusive growth.

Link

 

12th Annual Global Microfinnce Forum

Luogo: Berlin, Germany

Tipo: Forum

Organizzatore: UNIGLOBAL

dal 17-mar-16 al 18-mar-16

The conference covers a very versatile range of topics, which makes this conference appealing to MFIs and banks, as well as private investors and developing organizations. As a backbone of speakers, there are the largest private and public investors in microfinance, commercial banks and developing organizations from all over the world.

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A joint performance indicator for the evaluation of the double bottom line microfinance

Luogo: Mons, Belgium

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: CERMI

dal 14-mar-16 al 00-gen-00

This research proposes a novel balanced approach to evaluate the combined financial and social performance of microfinance institutions. This approach, which produces a single performance indicator, is based on the fact that the expected trade-off between both aims of microfinance gives rise to a production frontier. Paper presentation by Javier Serra (University of Salamanca, Spain).

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18th Microcredit Summit

Luogo: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Tipo: Summit

Organizzatore: Microcredit Summit Campaign

dal 14-mar-16 al 17-mar-16

The Microcredit Summit Campaign brings together microfinance practitioners, advocates, educational institutions, donor agencies, international financial institutions, non-governmental organizations and others involved with microfinance to promote best practices in the field, to stimulate the interchanging of knowledge and to work towards reaching our goals.

Link

 

Funding from the Head or the Heart: An Examination of Globally Crowdfunded Entrepreneurship

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: CERMI

dal 10-mar-16 al 00-gen-00

Crowdfunding has become a popular boundary spanning mechanism for small ventures and entrepreneurs across the globe to gain visibility and access to a multitude of investors. In this study, Maria Figueroa-Armijos (American University - Kogod School of Business, US) draws upon signaling theory and social identity theory to investigate whether crowdfunders use objective criteria or subjective criteria, respectively, when investing their money through micro–lending. Using data from a global online crowdfunding platform, our results indicate that investors tend to invest with their head (objectively) rather than with their heart (subjectively).

Link

 

Microcredit Contracts and Risk Diversification

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: CERMI

dal 22-feb-16 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Boosting entrepreneurial spirit – pioneering regions and cities in Europe

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: EESC

dal 09-feb-16 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Microfinance under the European Social Fund (ESF) 2014-2020

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: European Commission

dal 03-feb-16 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

3rd Meeting of High Level Group monitoring simplification for beneficiaries of ESI Funds

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: EC - DG Regio

dal 02-feb-16 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Review of Employment and Social Developments in Europe in 2015

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: European Commission

dal 21-gen-16 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

A review of employment and social developments in Europe in 2015

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: European Commission

dal 21-gen-16 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Microfinance under the European Social Fund (ESF)

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: European Commission

dal 10-dic-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Impact Investing - Opportunities in developing countries

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: BIO-INVEST

dal 10-dic-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Microfinance et auto-entrepreneurs : Nord et Sud Question clé : Comment la microfinance peut-elle aider les auto-entrepreneurs dans les pays développés ?

Luogo: Dijion, France

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: Burgundy School of Business, ESC Dijon-Bourgogne

dal 10-dic-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

The European Social Fund 2014-2020 and the use of Microfinance

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: European Commission

dal 10-dic-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Microfinance Lunch Break: Can we imangine a world without banks?

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: BRS

dal 08-dic-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Conference "Boosting Social Enterprises in Europe"

Luogo: Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Tipo: Fair

Organizzatore: EIB, European Commission

dal 03-dic-15 al 04-dic-15

The conference, that will take place on 3 and 4 December at Hémicycle, is organised by the Luxembourg Ministry of Labour, Employment and the Social and Solidarity Economy. Its overarching Theme is: “Boosting Social Enterprises in Europe”. The agenda is structured around the following key questions: - How do we create social innovation? - How can we systematically integrate social innovation in the creation of economic activities? - Which eco-system is best suited to promote access to finance for Social Enterprises? Is there a way to connect individual savings to social economy projects?

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Social innovation investor's fair

Luogo: Kirchberg, Luxembourg

Tipo: Fair

Organizzatore: EIB

dal 03-dic-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Lunch time debate – Progressive Structural Reforms to reduce Inequalities and to promote Jobs, Growth and Social Investment

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Debate

Organizzatore: European Parliament / SOLIDAR

dal 01-dic-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

VentureUp: dall'idea alla startup

Luogo: Milan, Italy

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: Il Sole 24 ore

dal 30-nov-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Peer Review on ‘Universal Credit'

Luogo: London, UK

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: European Commission Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion

dal 30-nov-15 al 01-dic-15

 

Link

 

European Social Innovation Competition 2015 Awards Ceremony

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Ceremony

Organizzatore: European Commission

dal 25-nov-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Seminar series on Financial Instruments delivering ESI Funds

Luogo: Zagreb, Croatia

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: EC, DG REGIO

dal 24-nov-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

The 3rd Europe Housing Forum – Helping Set Europe’s Housing Agenda

Luogo: Berlin, Germany

Tipo: Forum

Organizzatore: UN HABITAT

dal 18-nov-15 al 20-nov-15

 

Link

 

European Microfinance Week, Financial Inclusion for Sustainable Development

Luogo: Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: European Microfinance Platform

dal 18-nov-15 al 20-nov-15

 

Link

 

Seminar series on Financial Instruments delivering ESI Funds

Luogo: Madrid, Spain

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: EC, DG REGIO

dal 18-nov-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

18th Euro Finance Week

Luogo: Frankfurt, Germany

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: Maleki Group

dal 16-nov-15 al 20-nov-15

 

Link

 

Making Finance Work for Women Summit

Luogo: Berlin, Germany

Tipo: Summit

Organizzatore: Women's World Banking

dal 11-nov-15 al 12-nov-15

 

Link

 

Seminar series on Financial Instruments delivering ESI Funds

Luogo: Prague, Czech Rep.

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: EC, DG REGIO

dal 10-nov-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

GLOBAL SOCIAL BUSINESS SUMMIT 2015

Luogo: Berlin, Germany

Tipo: Summit

Organizzatore: GLOBAL SOCIAL BUSINESS SUMMIT

dal 04-nov-15 al 07-nov-15

 

Link

 

Annual conference, Employment, Youth, Investment: What Can Microfinance Do?

Luogo: Prague, Czech Rep.

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: MFC

dal 04-nov-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Driving Growth and Sustainability – A Business Case for Microinsurance

Luogo: Casablanca, Morocco

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: 11th International Microinsurance Conference

dal 03-nov-15 al 05-nov-15

 

Link

 

Seminar series on Financial Instruments delivering ESI Funds

Luogo: Riga, Latvia

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: EC, DG REGIO

dal 30-ott-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

FINANCING SMEs IN ASIA AND EUROPE

Luogo: Rome, Italy

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

dal 29-ott-15 al 30-ott-15

 

Link

 

Quel rôle pour la microfinance en Europe en période d’austérité ?

Luogo: Bordeux, France

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: Université de Bordeaux

dal 28-ott-15 al 29-ott-15

 

Link

 

Migrant Banking and Remittances for Entrepreneurship and Social Business: Where do we stand?

Luogo: Rome, Italy

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: University Meets Microfinance

dal 27-ott-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Certified Master Course on Microfinance and Financial Inclusion

Luogo: London, UK

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: Greenwich University

dal 26-ott-15 al 06-nov-15

 

Link

 

Realize IT Entrepreneurship Incubator 2015

Luogo: Berlin, Germany

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: ESAA-EU

dal 23-ott-15 al 24-ott-15

 

Link

 

Seminar series on Financial Instruments delivering ESI Funds

Luogo: Rome, Italy

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: EC, DG REGIO

dal 22-ott-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Regulation. Brake or accelerator of innovations in inclusive finance?

Luogo: Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: ADA

dal 21-ott-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Regulations and laws for microfinance in the EU: current situation and opportunities for improvement

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: EIB Institute

dal 20-ott-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2015

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: Crowdsourcing Week

dal 20-ott-15 al 22-ott-15

 

Link

 

1st European Microfinance Day: “What if we could turn job seekers into job creators?”

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: EESC

dal 19-ott-15 al 20-ott-15

 

Link

 

Social Entrepreneurship Course

Luogo: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Tipo: Course

Organizzatore: Consulta Europa

dal 19-ott-15 al 23-ott-15

 

Link

 

Conference: Can The Semester Deliver On Poverty And Participation?

Luogo: Brussels, Belgium

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: EESC, EAPN

dal 09-ott-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Seminar series on Financial Instruments delivering ESI Funds

Luogo: Bucharest, Romania

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: EC, DG REGIO

dal 08-ott-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Seminar series on Financial Instruments delivering ESI Funds

Luogo: Sofia, Bulgaria

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: EC, DG REGIO

dal 06-ott-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Seminar series on Financial Instruments delivering ESI Funds

Luogo: Bratislava, Slovakia

Tipo: Seminar

Organizzatore: EC, DG REGIO

dal 02-ott-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

5th Central Asian and Caucasus Microfinance Forum

Luogo: Tbilisi, Georgia

Tipo: Forum

Organizzatore: UNIGLOBAL

dal 01-ott-15 al 02-ott-15

 

Link

 

Green Inclusive Finance Conference

Luogo: The Hague, NL

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: NPM - Platform for Inclusive Finance

dal 22-set-15 al 00-gen-00

 

Link

 

Evidence and Innovation for Scaling Inclusive Digital Finance

Luogo: Antalya, Turkey

Tipo: Conference

Organizzatore: Responsible Finance Forum VI

dal 07-set-15 al 09-set-15

 

Link

 

Eventi Internazionali Press

China Rapid Finance to triple number of users on its consumer lending platform

Fonte: South China Morning Post

Tipo: Article

Autore: N/A

08-gen-17

China Rapid Finance (CRF), the mainland’s largest online consumer lending platform, is looking to triple the number of users this year as it looks to create a business on par with a major commercial bank’s credit card division. Zane Wang Zhengyu, founder and chief executive of CRF, told the South China Morning Post that the company would be impervious to the challenges facing other peer to peer (P2P) operators on the mainland, and would continue to bolster its microcredit businesses in accordance with Beijing’s financial reforms.

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RON 4.5 million loan will increase access to finance for small farmers in Romania

Fonte: EFSE

Tipo: Press Release

Autore: N/A

23-dic-16

The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE) has lent RON 4.5 million (EUR 1 million) to Patria Credit IFN SA to finance micro and small agricultural businesses and farmers in rural Romania. EFSE Board Chairman Christoph Tiskens said: “The EFSE’s latest investment in Patria Credit marks a decade of successful partnership and an ongoing joint effort of supporting small farms and businesses to create and sustain jobs in rural Romania.” Patria Credit General Manager Marian Tetici said: “We are very committed to the long term and successful partnership with EFSE and to building further towards financial inclusion, local development and the growth of small companies and individuals in the rural areas of our country.”

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EIF and European Commission launch new capacity building initiative for microcredit and social finance providers

Fonte: EU-EIF

Tipo: Press Release

Autore: N/A

22-dic-17

The European Investment Fund (EIF) and the European Commission are announcing a new initiative to help microcredit and social enterprise finance providers develop their businesses under the EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI). The new ‘EaSI Capacity Building Investments Window’ will reinforce the capacity of selected financial intermediaries in the areas of microfinance and social enterprise finance. Through equity investments (such as seed financing, risk capital) mostly, EIF will support the development of these finance providers, for instance by opening a new branch, investing in human resources, developing a new IT tool or financing certain expenses. Ultimately, these investments will help increase the offer and opportunities for micro-borrowers and social enterprises.

Link

 

Microcredit isn’t dead

Fonte: The Washington Post

Tipo: Article

Autore: Robert Gebelhoff

12-dic-16

Nuance in the data points to hope that microcredit has a place yet in development economics. Paired with other development tools that economists are raving about — such as giving grants directly to impoverished communities — microlending can offer a sustainable investment option for small entrepreneurs, leading to a renewal in its mission to fight extreme poverty.

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A microfinance program for women working in sex work: Does it impact women’s experiences of violence?

Fonte: BIO MED Central

Tipo: Blog article

Autore: Laura Cordisco Tsai

10-dic-16

Researchers and practitioners have looked to microfinance programs as one approach to promote economic security and reduce sexual risk behavior of women working in sex work. However, concern exists about the impact of microfinance participation on women’s risk for violence. Some research studies have found that participating in microfinance programs heightens women’s risk for violence, while others have found that microfinance participation protects women from violence. The impact of microfinance participation on women’s experiences of violence appears to vary per the cultural context.

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European microfinance sector reached outstanding gross microloan portfolio of EUR 2.5 billion in 2015, serving 747,265 active borrowers.

Fonte: EMN

Tipo: Press Release

Autore: N/A

05-dic-16

Data shows that microfinance in Europe is gradually being consolidated as an essential tool of social policy for the promotion of self-employment, microenterprise support and the fight against social and financial exclusion. Going beyond the figures, there are in fact men and women who are willing to take control of their futures with the help of microfinance institutions

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NEW Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE)!

Fonte: Linkedin

Tipo: Article

Autore: Monica Rita Salgado Fernandez

01-dic-16

Access to finance in general is not the main challenge for enterprises. In 2016 it’s only a problem for 9%, compared to 16% in 2009 and 10% in 2015. The top 3 most important problems the SMEs are facing are: finding customers (for 25% of them), availability of skilled staff or experienced managers (20%) and competition (13%).

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Commission gives boost to start-ups in Europe

Fonte: Linkedin

Tipo: Article

Autore: Monica Rita Salgado Fernandez

24-nov-16

The Commission's Startup and Scaleup Initiative aims to give Europe's many innovative entrepreneurs every opportunity to become world leading companies. It pulls together all the possibilities that the EU already offers and adds a new focus on venture capital investment, insolvency law and taxation.

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EFSE DF provides business mentoring for 30 start-ups in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Fonte:

Tipo: 

Autore: 

15-nov-16

The Development Facility of the European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE DF) is funding 50 hours of business advice for each of 30 startups in Bosnia and Herzegovina in partnership with the Sarajevo Economic Region Development Agency (SERDA), who is providing the mentors.

Link

 

Can Digital Financial Services Turbocharge Financial Inclusion?

Fonte: CGAP

Tipo: Article

Autore: N/A

04-nov-16

There has been much hype of the ability of digital financial services (DFS) to turbocharge financial inclusion. We all saw an opportunity to significantly reduce the costs of delivering a range of financial services, and an opportunity to finally make the business case for mass market deposit mobilization

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Social enterprises gaining ground in Europe

Fonte: European Commission

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

25-ott-16

The number of social enterprises in Europe is increasing and they are engaging in new fields. Many countries are introducing new legislation as well as new support schemes to boost the development of social enterprises. Both public and private markets offer new opportunities for social enterprises to start up and grow, reveals a new report published by the European Commission.

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EFSE and Mikrofin expand partnership in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Fonte: EFSE

Tipo: Press Release

Autore: N/A

24-ott-16

The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE) said today it will lend EUR 6 million to the microcredit company Mikrofin d.o.o. (Mikrofin) to increase support for agricultural enterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mikrofin focuses on agricultural producers and has been an EFSE partner since its inception. In this period Mikrofin placed over EUR 70 million from EFSE credit lines to small entrepreneurs and agro‐producers. With 72 offices, the company is the largest microfinance organisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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First microfinance deal in Belgium under EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation

Fonte: Public Affairs Bruxelles

Tipo: news

Autore: N/A

21-ott-16

This new EaSI guarantee agreement with microStart covers a loan portfolio of €15 million for micro-borrowers in Belgium. microStart will launch a new loan product – mS Scale Up, targeting a large spectrum of micro-loan products for micro-entrepreneurs seeking to further develop their businesses. This new product will offer longer maturities and higher maximum loan amounts.

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Evaluating the EU programme for Employment and Social Innovation launch of an open consultation

Fonte: European commission

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

20-ott-16

The European Commission has launched a public consultation in the context of the midterm evaluation of the EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI). The consultation seeks feedback from stakeholders and participants or beneficiaries involved in the EaSI programme during the 2014-2016 period, but citizens and other organisations are also welcome to contribute. This public consultation will not only help to assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence and the EU added value as well other aspects of the programme, but also to shape the future of the EaSI. It is expected that this open public consultation will provide valuable input to the future development of the EaSI programme

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Microfinance: creativity against poverty

Fonte: Financial Times

Tipo: News

Autore: Gill Plimmer

18-ott-16

Yunus was in London a few months ago to promote his business to leading philanthropists. But the city, despite being a hub for international finance, has remained stubbornly resistant to his microfinance movement — even though he says he has met more government officials and finance executives in the UK than in other, more receptive countries, such as France and Germany.

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Financing start-ups and social outcomes measurement

Fonte: MFC

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

12-ott-16

In a time of economic slow-down, the idea of financing start-up enterprises in the EU is quite alluring. As such, start-ups (enterprises in early stages of development, generally less than 2 years old) are high on European Commission’s agenda. For this reason, the MFC is taking a deep dive on how microfinance can support start-ups. We will examine existing practices in the marketplace, define good practice and, most importantly, analyse the possible impact of microfinance institutions on start-ups.

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EFSE DF, National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia provide guidebooks for informed financial decision making

Fonte: EFSE

Tipo: News

Autore: Eric Culp

11-ott-16

The Development Facility of the European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE DF) and the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia (NBRM) have developed three educational booklets: "From Denars to dreams!", "What should we know before taking a loan?" and "Do you manage your money or is it your money that manages you?" for the Macedonian market.

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A Shanghai Student Perseveres in His Quest to Provide Funding for the Poor

Fonte: Wharton High School

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

06-ott-16

Yeop Lee, 16, is a high school senior at Shanghai American School in Shanghai, China. Lee and a few friends decided last year to start a microfinance organization to help alleviate poverty in China. As Lee describes in this KWHS summer essay, the process has not been without its challenges.

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The Youth Guarantee and Youth Employment Initiative three years on

Fonte: European Commission

Tipo: Press Release

Autore: N/A

04-ott-16

The Youth Guarantee has become a reality across the EU. 14 million young people have entered Youth Guarantee schemes since January 2014. Around nine million young people took up an offer, the majority of which were offers of employment. Almost two thirds of young people who left the Youth Guarantee in 2015 took up an offer of employment, education, traineeship or apprenticeship.

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IMF Releases the 2016 Financial Access Survey, A Key Tool to Foster Financial Inclusion

Fonte: IMF

Tipo: Press Release

Autore: Bruno Pierre Silvestre

03-ott-16

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released today the results of the seventh annual Financial Access Survey (FAS). The FAS is a key source of data on financial inclusion, providing insights on the availability and use of financial products such as deposit accounts, loans, and insurance policies by individuals and firms across the globe. The information is based on administrative data that is collected from both traditional financial service providers like commercial banks, microfinance institutions, or other deposit-taking institutions, and providers of digital financial services such as mobile money.

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What Lies Behind the Persistent Financial Inclusion Gender Gap CGAP

Fonte: CGAP

Tipo: News

Autore: Na

01-ott-16

Despite increasing worldwide financial inclusion rates and a “massive drop” of 20% in the number of unbanked individuals from 2011 to 2014, Global Findex data shows that the gender gap in account ownership has not improved over the same time period. In developing countries, 9% more men than women have bank accounts - a figure that has remained steady even as financial inclusion rates go up.

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MicroStart and Taysir launch distance learning for micro-entrepreneurs!

Fonte: Microfinance Centre (MFC)

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

01-ott-16

Three microfinance institutions (MFIs), namely Adie in France, microStart in Belgium and Taysir in Tunisia launch together an online training facility addressed to future micro entrepreneurs

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Technology can expand access to finance

Fonte: China Daily

Tipo: News

Autore: Wang Yanfei

05-set-16

 

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Supervision of micro-finance should tighten: China cbank official-Caixin

Fonte: Reuters

Tipo: News

Autore: E. Tham, S. Navaratnam

25-ago-16

China should tighten its supervision of the micro-finance industry to guard against risks to financial stability, Chinese news outlet Caixin reported China central bank vice governor Chen Yulu saying at a Beijing conference on Thursday. Chen's comments come after the country's banking regulator on Wednesday released detailed rules to curb an unruly peer-to-peer (P2P) lending sector, underlining China's commitment to the clamp down on a sector riddled with runaway managers and pyramid schemes. Microfinance has grown quickly in China, driven by demand from cash-starved small- and medium-sized enterprises who are turned away by traditional lending institutions that lean towards risk-free state-owned enterprises. P2P firms are microfinance companies

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ADB, CFPA Sign $50 Million to Boost Support for Microfinance in PRC

Fonte: Reuters

Tipo: News

Autore: Una Galani

23-ago-16

Microfinance is making India's big banks look bad. Small lenders that help the poor buy everything from bicycles to sewing machines are back and growing at breakneck speed after the industry nearly collapsed six years ago. The last boom ended badly after a number of borrowers committed suicide. That prompted authorities in Andhra Pradesh to effectively stop micro lenders collecting debts. The state once accounted for up to 40 percent of industry loans. The Reserve Bank of India has since capped usurious lending rates.

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Light After Darkness: Afghanistan's Poorest See Hope for Brighter Future

Fonte: World Bank

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

22-ago-16

Raising livestock provides ultra-poor rural families an opportunity to earn a livelihood and become entrepreneurs. The Targeting the Ultra Poor (TUP) program which is part of the Afghanistan Access to Finance Project implemented through the Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan, aims to move participants from safety net programs to income-earning activities, and links them with microfinance programs. The Access to Finance Project is supported by the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank Group’s fund for the poorest countries.

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ADB, CFPA Sign $50 Million to Boost Support for Microfinance in PRC

Fonte: ADB - Asian Development Bank

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

22-ago-16

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $50 million loan facility with CFPA Microfinance Management to support approximately 130,000 microentrepreneurs in rural areas of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which will boost income levels and employment. The ADB loan will be used for onlending to sub-borrowers in counties designated by central and local governments as poverty-stricken areas. The long-tenor ADB loan will revolve and is expected to fund subloans amounting to over $200 million. The loan is ADB’s first non-sovereign loan in microfinance in the PRC.

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Project “ATM for SMEs” starts in Hungary with the scope of improving access to microfinance for small enterprises in the participating regions

Fonte: New Széchenyi Plan

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

16-ago-16

Within the framework of the INTERREG ATM for SMEs programme the lead partner Fejér Enterprise Agency with the effective cooperation of the Managing Authority for Economic Development Operational Programmes of the Ministry for National Economy and with further project partners has officially opened the programme’s activity plan. On 12-13 May 2016, 30 people have joined the kick-off meeting of an important initiative to foster the access to microfinance.

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Freefall: from self-employment to unemployment

Fonte: The Irish Times

Tipo: News

Autore: Patrick Freyne

13-ago-16

There is a vague commitment in the programme for government to changing the status of the self-employed, and Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar has just announced a survey of 20,000 self-employed people, to see what benefits they feel they need and what pay-related social insurance, or PRSI, payments they might be willing to make.

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Erste Bank Expands Micro-Credit Program

Fonte: Erste Bank Österreich

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

11-ago-16

With immediate effect, more micro-loans can be granted to start-ups and small companies in the framework of an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection, due to two recently signed guarantee agreements between the European Investment Fund (EIF) and Erste Bank. For the first time social entrepreneurs will also benefit from the new EIF program and can obtain an EIF guarantee for their funding. Overall, Erste Bank will be able to extend loans in the amount of EUR 10 m. to persons, initiatives or associations which normally wouldn't have access to financing for lack of collateral.

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Microfinance: Startup Seed Funding for Refugees

Fonte: News Deeply

Tipo: News

Autore: Evan Easton-Calabria and Naohiko Omata

09-ago-16

Urban refugees often fall between the cracks of aid organizations, but are ideal candidates for microfinance. But their circumstances need to be carefully vetted, say Evan Easton-Calabria and Naohiko Omata, authors of a global survey on microcredit. Although financial capital is as indispensable as seed funding is to startups, very often refugees do not have access to the loan and saving facilities of formal bank and credit institutions. Many are not inclined to take on refugees as clients since they are perceived as a “high-risk” group that may simply return to their own country without repaying loans. Even if access is not denied, opening a bank account requires a residential address and often a national identity card. Most refugees lack this kind of documentation.

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Impact of the microbusiness world explored at forum

Fonte: The Philadelphia Tribune

Tipo: News

Autore: Ayana Jones

02-ago-16

The session comes at a time when the nation’s smallest businesses are facing a $52 billion capital gap, according to the AEO. At the event, U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), ranking member of the House Small Business Committee, highlighted the importance of securing access to capital for microbusiness operators. “Microbusinesses could provide the stability that we need in terms of creating jobs in for an economy that is still struggling,” Velázquez said. “As a small business owner, nothing is more important than getting an opportunity to get your first loan and to turn your dreams into reality.).

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New welfare scheme offers same-day turnaround for small loans

Fonte: thejournal.ie

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

26-lug-16

A pilot microfinance loan scheme to tackle moneylenders was announced by Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar today. The scheme is designed to allow credit unions provide small affordable loans to individuals and families who would otherwise rely on moneylenders or unlicensed loan sharks. The loans of up to €2000 can be used for things like Christmas presents, or back-to-school expenses.

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Change Agent: Mark Edelman

Fonte: Iowa State University faculty

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

22-lug-16

Some would be entrepreneurs with great ideas sometimes struggle to get their enterprises off the ground. Due to the higher risks, some lenders avoid small business start-ups, particularly when there are credit issues, lack of collateral or lack of experience. Some lenders may not finance any small startups, no matter how good the idea, Edelman said. But microfinance, an approach that focuses on providing small loans and coaching to small businesses, can help some ventures get started.

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Temporary employment in the EU: springboards or career dead ends?

Fonte: European Commission

Tipo: News

Autore: A. Fulvimari

13-lug-16

The share of temporary workers has increased in most EU Member States since 2008. Flexible contractual arrangements have been extensively used since the crisis, their major attraction for employers being their less strict dismissals rules

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Israeli start-up Sling acquired by Brazilian micro-credit giant, Avante

Fonte: The Jerusalem Post

Tipo: News

Autore: Ariel Shapira

11-lug-16

Sling enables micro-entrepreneurs (street vendors, therapists, flea market merchants or even home-factories) to unlock a series of financial services directly from their smartphone, with no need for hardware, intricate contracts or upfront cost. Among the various capacities, Sling merchants enjoy digital card payments, frictionless installments, clearance and micro- fleet management capabilities.

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Using microfinance to lift China's poor to prosperity: an IFC viewpoint

Fonte: The Banker

Tipo: News

Autore: Simon Andrews

01-lug-16

China’s microfinance sector is still developing but has strong potential to reduce poverty and support local SMEs. What are the challenges and opportunities for microfinance institutions in the country? The International Finance Corporation’s country manager for China, South Korea and Mongolia, Simon Andrews, explains.

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A New Way to Lend to the Poor

Fonte: Thee Wall Street Journal

Tipo: News

Autore: Tim Dattels

29-giu-16

After years of growing skepticism about microfinance, the industry is making a comeback. New models are proving it is possible to give the poor access to credit in a sustainable manner and still turn a profit.

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LienVietPostBank expands accross Vietnam

Fonte: Vietnam Investment Review (VIR)

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

27-giu-16

In getting the central bank's approval to open more branches and transaction offices last week, LienVietPostBank became the first joint stock commercial bank to have a transaction network covering the entire country. Currently, only the State-owned commercial banks of Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) and Bank for Social Policies have a transaction network spanning all 63 cities and provinces. LienVietPostBank said the expansion plan is aimed at better managing the bank's post-transaction offices in cities and provinces and implementing financial and credit policies on rural and agricultural development. The expanded network will also ease the bank's social insurance payment and micro financial service provision.

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First Employment and Social Innovation microfinance deal in Albania to benefit 5,000 micro-enterprises

Fonte: Invest in EU

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

24-giu-16

The European Investment Fund (EIF) and FondiBesa (BESA) have signed the first guarantee agreement aimed at supporting micro-enterprises in Albania under the EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI). This new EaSI guarantee agreement with the non-bank microfinance institution BESA, will cover a loan portfolio of ALL 3 billion (c. €22 million) for micro-borrowers, targeting in particular the agribusiness sector and youth entrepreneurial activity.

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Academics given major role overseeing EU microfinance

Fonte: University of Salford, Manchester

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

21-giu-16

Professor Karl Dayson, Associate Dean of Research and Innovation in the School of Arts and Media, and Dr Pal Vik, Research Fellow, have been appointed major roles overseeing the funding of small loans to businesses across the European Union. Professor Dayson will sit on the European Commission steering committee, responsible for the Code of Good Conduct for Microcredit Provision and Dr Vik will deputise for Professor Dayso

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€10m sought by Minister for Jobs for small business

Fonte: The Irish Examiner

Tipo: News

Autore: Gordon Deegan 

15-giu-16

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, is hoping to secure a further €10m of exchequer funding to keep Microfinance Ireland afloat beyond 2017.

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State lender keeps 2,000 in work, claims Jobs Minister

Fonte: The Irish Independent

Tipo: News

Autore: Gordon Deegan 

15-giu-16

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Mary Mitchell O'Connor, has said that the €11.7m lent by Micro Finance Ireland (MFI) has helped sustain 2,000 jobs.

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Poverty risks since the crisis: are older people winning at the expense of the young?

Fonte: EC - DG EMPL.

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

15-giu-16

One of the legacies of the crisis is an increased number of people at risk of poverty. These are people with household incomes below 60% of the median income in their country. The share of people at risk of poverty (or the ‘at-risk-of-poverty rate’, AROP) increased from 13.5 per cent in 2007 to 15.9 per cent in 2014 among the working-age population (20-64 years old) – a rise of almost 20% (EU average excluding Croatia and Malta).

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Lending money via mobile phone in Kenya

Fonte: Deutsche Welle

Tipo: Video

Autore: Julia Mielke

13-giu-16

For years, Kenya's banks ignored the microcredit sector until mobile phone operators proved its profitability. Launched three years ago, the Mshwari credit service now has some 14 million customers.

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Aegon makes first microfinance investments

Fonte: Aegon

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

13-giu-16

Aegon has completed its first 8 million of a potential 100 million euro investment in microfinance. A third fund has already been earmarked for an investment later this year.

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Ten actions to help equip people in Europe with better skills

Fonte: European Commission

Tipo: Press Release

Autore: N/A

10-giu-16

The Commission has adopted today a new and comprehensive Skills Agenda for Europe. The aim is to ensure that people develop a broad set of skills from early on in life and to make the most of Europe’s human capital, which will ultimately boost employability, competitiveness and growth in Europe. (...) Finally, too few people have the entrepreneurial mindset and competences to start their own business and keep adapting to evolving requirements of the labour market.

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Global Microfinance Market to Grow at a CAGR of 15.56% During Forecast 2016-2020

Fonte: SBWire

Tipo: Press Release

Autore: N/A

07-giu-16

The global microfinance market to grow at a CAGR of 15.56% during the period 2016-2020. The report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the global microfinance market for 2016-2020. To calculate the market size, the report considers the the total financing of the micro enterprises in the Americas, Asia Pacific (APAC), and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA

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Poverty-Buster or Debt-Builder? Ithaca College Professor Researching Microfinance in Mexico

Fonte: Ithaca College

Tipo: News

Autore: Dan Verderosa

07-giu-16

The microfinance boom is particularly notable in Mexico, where large, for-profit banks have entered the market, especially since Banco Compartamos raised $467 million in its 2007 IPO. Duke says Mexico is an interesting case to study because the interest rates on microloans are among the highest in the world, which allows for-profit banks to make more money on loans. Duke hypothesizes that this for-profit influx has changed the nature of urban micro-lending in the country, and may affect microfinance’s impact on poverty.

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Closing China’s Credit Gap

Fonte: NEXT BILLION

Tipo: News

Autore: Timothy Tsang

06-giu-16

China's economy is on the path toward becoming more financially inclusive, but because the centralized Credit Reference Agency falls short, there's still a need for a scalable system for credit evaluation. Alibaba-affiliate Ant Financial is trying to provide an innovative solution.

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EU ready to provide microfinance support to agricultural sector of Azerbaijan - ABC

Fonte: ABC

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

06-giu-16

At a meeting with the agriculture minister, Mr Heydar Asadov, the EU Ambassador in Baku, Ms Malena Mard has stated that the EU is interested in the development of the agricultural sector, which is defined the priority for all the 28 member countries of the EU. Minister Heydar Asadov claimed about the need to ensure access to funds for small and medium farmers, so we are ready to assist in the allocation of microfinance in this sector

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Could 394,000 microfinance projects change the Australian market?

Fonte: In The Black

Tipo: News

Autore: Chris Sheedy

01-giu-16

Research from the Centre for Social Impact, conducted on behalf of NAB, shows that three million adult Australians are fully or severely financially excluded. “More than 394,000 people have accessed our microfinance products so far through a partnership with Good Shepherd Microfinance, but my aim is to reach one million people by 2018,” says Proske.

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Incofin IM and DWM take a joint 51% stake in JSC Microfinance Organization Crystal, Georgia

Fonte: Incofin

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

31-mag-16

Incofin IM’s agRIF  (agRIF) and DWM’s Inclusive Finance Equity Fund II (IFEF) have  together subscribed to a 9m GEL capital increase of JSC Microfinance Organization Crystal (Crystal).  The investment of both partners will primarily be used to fund Crystal’s geographical expansion and the introduction of new financial services in the rural areas of Georgia.

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Microfinance could wind up being the new subprime

Fonte: The Conversation

Tipo: News

Autore: Caroline Schuster

24-mag-16

More inclusive and democratic forms of banking surely bring financial services to people and communities that had been excluded from key markets. But academic research and policy analysts both sound some notes of caution. Economists such as Charlotte Wagnerhave studied the growth of microfinance and found it to be part of the same credit glut experienced in the traditional banking sector in the mid-2000s. It could be susceptible to the same boom and bust cycles.

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How large NGO's Are Using Data to Transform Themselves

Fonte: Harvard Business Review

Tipo: News

Autore: Campbell K., Virani S., Lanney J.

18-mag-16

Organizations such as World Vision, Habitat for Humanity, The Salvation Army, and Save the Children are innovating by seeking out data, taking it seriously, and then using it to pivot their approach from serving constituents’ needs to tackling the underlying problems that produce them.

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EFSE, Fibabanka to Support Turkish Farming

Fonte: EFSE

Tipo: Press Release

Autore: N/A

17-mag-16

The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE) said today it is expanding its partnership with Istanbul‐based Fibabanka A.Ş. through an additional EUR 20 million senior loan earmarked for financing Turkish agricultural operations and micro‐ and small Turkish enterprises

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Grand Duchess of Luxembourg Addresses CGAP Meeting

Fonte: CGAP

Tipo: Press Release

Autore: N/A

10-mag-16

Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg addressed the opening of the annual meeting of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a multi-donor organization that focuses on advancing financial inclusion through research and partnerships. Her Royal Highness said, “The arrival of new actors in the microfinance sector, such as telephone operators that offer mobile phone based services, offers new hope to the poorest populations and removes obstacles that were formerly unsurmountable.” She added, “The question of providing access to credit and microfinance for the thousands of refugees who have fled combat zones and are now sheltering in Europe is a theme that merits reflection."

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Georgian Financial Sector Becoming Saturated, Leaving Less Room for Growth

Fonte: The Financial

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

10-mag-16

Over the last ten years the microfinance market of Georgia has developed successfully. However, further growth is becoming limited now due to the small size of the country. The recent trend of the transformation of MFOs into commercial banks is believed will continue in the future. Overall the economic development of Georgia, including exchange rate, became more favourable from February 2016, however the situation in regard to political tensions in the region could still worsen, said Thomas Engelhardt, Chairman at Access Holding Microfinance AG.

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Frankfurt School of Finance and Management: New online course in Islamic Microfinance

Fonte: EC - InfoRegio

Tipo: News

Autore: Barbara Barkhausen

05-mag-16

The Islamic Relief Finance and Management are developing an online certification course in the growing area of Islamic Academy together with Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW),and Frankfurt School ofMicrofinance. The course will provide participants with sound knowledge of the technical aspects of retail banking as well as the ethics of Islamic finance and the relevant compliance and regulation issues. It is aimed at all development professionals working in the area of Islamic Microfinance. The six month course will be available on Frankfurt School’s LinkEd e-learning platform (www.linked.fs.de) and will be launched in September 2016. www.linked.fs.de

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INCEPTION IMPACT ASSESSMENT Towards a new partnership between the EU and the ACP countries after 2020

Fonte: EC - DG DEVCO

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

04-mag-16

This initiative seeks to learn from the partnership in order to best advance today's joint interests. The new relationship needs to be agreed in light of the new political, economic, social and demographic realities in the EU, the ACP countries and at global level. There are new global challenges (e.g. related to climate change, security or migration), new important players (e.g. emerging economies), new economic interests, and there reshaping of the international sustainable development framework under the 2030 Agenda.

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China microcredit firms' outstanding loans at $144b by March

Fonte: China Daily

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

26-apr-16

Mr. Ligen Guo, ViceChairman of China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), the highest authority to regulate the Chinese banking sector led a high powered delegation to meet Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. He met Professor Yunus recently to discuss the policy to promote microcredit in China. He explained that Chinese government is giving very high priority to poverty reduction and microcredit to support ntrepreneurship among rural people, particularly women.

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Top Chinese banking regulator consults Dr Yunus

Fonte: Yunus Centre

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

23-apr-16

Outstanding loans extended by China's microcredit companies amounted to 938 billion yuan ($144 billion) by the end of March, data from the central bank showed on Monday. The volume was down 3.2 billion yuan from the end of 2015.By the end of March, the number of microcredit companies in China came in at 8,867, the People's Bank of China said in a statement on its website. Microlenders largely target small companies and low income groups in need of capital.

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Prof. Ohanyan Hopes to Build Bridges for Peace In the Caucasus

Fonte: The Armenian Mirror - Spectator

Tipo: News

Autore: Alin K. Gregorian

21-apr-16

Prof. Anna Ohanyan’s first book, titled ‘NGOs, IGOs, and the Network Mechanisms of Post-conflict Global Governance in Microfinance’, was on the post-conflict era Bosnia Herzegovina as well as Afghanistan. It was focused on the use of microfinance in postconflict societies in order to revive them. “Microfinance policies are quite remarkable. Donors have to figure out how to bring in people or to offer training,” she explained. Her new book, which came out earlier this month, Networked Regionalism as Conflict Management, is about a region much closer to her heart. “It explores this narrative of whether or not it is possible to utilize regional ties in all kinds” of situations to help bring peace to the region. For example, she said training firefighters or teachers are things that need to happen throughout the Caucasus.

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Civil power antidote to income gap

Fonte: The Korea Herald

Tipo: News

Autore: Suthichai Yoon

15-apr-16

Using the example of his personal journey in microcredit — “Everything a conventional bank did, we started doing the opposite in Grameen Bank” — Yunus said human problems could be solved “if we design it as a The longstanding belief that the task of problem-solving should be left to governments and charities alone is, to this highly respected social entrepreneur, now outdated.

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Microlux: Microfinance in Luxembourg and the Greater Region

Fonte: ADA

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

14-apr-16

Microlux, which will be launched in June 2016, is the first MFI in Luxembourg and will provide: coaching, mentoring and training provided by volunteers; Microcredits of a maximum amount of 15,000 EURO; a loan called “micro +” for activities which have already begun (of a maximum amount of 20,000 EURO); a social entrepreneurship loan (of a maximum amount of 25,000 EURO).

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Microfinance: Al Amana leader d’un marché en croissance

Fonte: L'économiste

Tipo: News

Autore: Badra BERRISSOULE

11-apr-16

L’offre mondiale de la microfinance continue à se développer avec un montant de 105, 9 milliards de dollars de prêts octroyés. La valeur du portefeuille mondial est davantage concentrée en Asie et en Amérique latine alors que la région Mena reste encore timide bien qu’elle ait enregistré une progression. Leader dans la micro􀃈nance au Maroc, Al Amana compte bien le rester malgré la concurrence.

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Microfinance: lending small, thinking big

Fonte: EURONEWS

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

04-apr-16

This week, Real Economy is looking at the world of microfinance in a European market that tends to be dominated by traditional banks. We take a look at the world of microcredit in Romania and see how small loans and a little financial training can make a difference. We’ll see how the model is adapting with technology to the needs of people and businesses in western Europe who can no longer tap into traditional credit from banks. Then we’ll check in with the European Investment Fund (EIF) about how best to use microfinance in our search for sustainable employment and growth.

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Improving access to finance for Romanian SMEs: EU adopts investment package worth €100 million

Fonte: EC - InfoRegio

Tipo: News

Autore: European Commission

29-mar-16

The European Commission has adopted today 2014-2020 the "SME Initiative" Operational Programme worth €100 million for Romanian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) worth €100 million. The value of the investment provided by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in the form of guarantees is expected to quadruple to €400 million, thanks to the leverage effect of private investment in SME loans.

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Muhammad Yunus on How to Change the World: Do the Reverse

Fonte: Huffington Post

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

21-mar-16

Yunus wants Bangladesh to be the “starting point” of a global wave of such actions. “We may aim at creating a world of three zeros : zero poverty, zero unemployment and zero net carbon emissions. A world of diamond-shaped wealth dis tribution — very few at the top, very few at the bottom, with the bulk of people in the middle — instead of a wealth pyramid. A world of equality, harmony, peace and happiness. It can happen only if we citizens take action.”

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First EU social finance deal in Europe, to support €33m for social enterprises in France

Fonte: European Commission DG EMPL.

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

17-mar-16

The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Société financière de la NEF (la NEF) have signed the first Social Entrepreneurship guarantee agreement aimed at supporting more than 300 social enterprises in France under the EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI).

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Luxembourg duchess seeks return to Cuba to develop microfinance

Fonte: Afp Luxembourg

Tipo: News

Autore: The Daily Star

08-mar-16

She fled Cuba with her bourgeois family as revolution brewed, and later married into one of Europe's royal dynasties.Today, as the Communist-ruled island emerges from long economic isolation, Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Maria Teresa says she hopes to return home to pitch the cause of micro-credit to help the country's poor.

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Microcredito, “la nuova legge costringe gli operatori a lavorare in perdita”. Così l’albo degli intermediari resta vuoto

Fonte: Il Fatto Quotidiano

Tipo: News

Autore: Brusini C.

06-mar-16

Secondo la prima società italiana del settore, i paletti su tassi di interesse e servizi ausiliari previsti dal decreto dell'ottobre 2014 possono essere rispettati solo da chi non punta alla sostenibilità economica e sta in piedi grazie a lavoro volontario e fondi messi a disposizione da enti locali o istituti di credito.

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Selfemployed and entrepreneurship: breaking the barriers to job creation

Fonte: EC - DG EMPL.

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

17-feb-16

About 16% of the EU's working population were self-employed in 2014; and micro-enterprises, i.e. companies employing 10 persons or fewer, provided almost one third of the jobs in the EU's for-profit private sector. Yet, only a minority of self-employed – on average less than one third – actually employ other people, and only about one quarter of these employers are women.

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The longterm unemployed: the people that the economic recovery forgot?

Fonte: EC - DG EMPL

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

28-gen-16

The long-term unemployed (LTU) are those who have been out of work and searching for a job for 12 months or longer. The number of long-term unemployed doubled between 2007 and 2014, reaching 12.4 million people or 5% of the active EU population. This equals to around half of the total number of unemployed.  What is particularly worrying is that six out of ten of the LTU have been out of work for more than two years and their share remains at historically high levels.

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Efforts to Improve Financial Infrastructure

Fonte: The Korea Herald

Tipo: News

Autore: Kim Yoo-Mi

26-gen-16

Finance is often said to be the blood vessels of an economy, and credit rating systems perform a vital role in deciding the flow and direction of money within the vessels. The World Bank acknowledges credit rating systems as crucial to financial infrastructure and believes that credit rating systems play a critical role in stable economic growth.

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World Cannot be Sustainable with Poverty Around Us

Fonte: Deutsche Welle

Tipo: News

Autore: Manuela Kasper-Claridge

21-gen-16

Interview to Mr Yunus. Quote: "We have to become aware of the fact that we are in the middle of another process, which is the accumulation of all the wealth in the world in very few hands. We are not aware of that, unless somebody tells us something like that 62 people now own [as much wealth as the poorer half] of the world. Last year it was 80 people and 10 years back it was 380 people. What will be next year? If you go on, soon we'll have a situation where one person owns the whole world. "

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Green Microfinance: A tool for Sustainable Business an Climate Action

Fonte: Huffington Post

Tipo: News

Autore: Boomgarden D., Loza A.

15-gen-16

The interest in green microfinance is clearly growing. It is frequently discussed at international conferences like Foromic in Latin America or African Microfinance Week, it is featured in special issues of academic journals like Enterprise Development and Microfinance, and was a topic at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP20, in December 2014. Green microfinance has undeniably become a very trendy field where terminology, definitions, and indicators are in the process of being developed and tested. There are many different views on what it is and what it can accomplish, and there is a risk of overestimating themiracle of microfinance—in this case, of green microfinance—so efforts to assess its performance are necessary, such as one recently conducted by MIX.

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Why Microfinance is Becoming a Bad Word All Over Again

Fonte: The Wire

Tipo: News

Autore: Chander Suta Dogra

15-gen-16

Inadequate regulation, coupled with the increasing tendency for women to borrow money for consumption rather than income generation is leading to mounting indebtedness in eastern UP and Bihar, and even suicides

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Microfinance: an overrated solution

Fonte: The Express Tribune

Tipo: News

Autore: Syed M. Ali

14-gen-16

The provision of small loans or other financial services to the poor will never work until we address the background conditions that produce poverty in the first place. The list of needed measures to create an enabling environment for poor people to improve their lives is long. There is need, for example, for a fairer distribution of productive assets such as land or putting in place pro-poor labour legislation at the national level, and a rethink of unfair trade policies and aid conditionalities at the international level, which continue to disempower poor people in developing countries around the world.  

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Good practices under EaSI funded projects 3rd Commission report

Fonte: DG EMPL

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

11-gen-16

The European Commission published its third monitoring report in which it gathers good practices of projects across Europe dealing with working conditions, employment, social affairs and inclusion. This monitoring is part of the EU'sProgramme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI). These good practice examples can form a basis for policy recommendations, which may be useful to the policy-maker designing or implementing policy interventions in this area.

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Measuring the Impact of Microfinance: Looking to the Future

Fonte: Grameen Foundation

Tipo: News

Autore: Odell Kathleen E.

11-gen-16

There is evidence from a numberof studies (using a variety of methodologies acrossdifferent settings) suggesting that microfinance isgood for microbusinesses. This result is observedacross different microfinance services, including mi-crocredit and microsavings instruments. Based onthe studies in this survey, the overall effect on theincomes and poverty rates of microfinance clients isless clear, as are the effects of microfinance on mea-sures of social well-being, such as education, health,and women’s empowerment. Hopefully, the nextwave of research will provide further insights intothese critical questions.

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The Crises of Microcredit, edited by Isabelle Guérin, Marc Labie and Jean-Michel Servet

Fonte: Financial Times

Tipo: News

Autore: Amy Kazmin

08-gen-16

A collection of essays explodes some of the myths of the microfinance industry. Review by Amy Kazmin. This is a book that should be read by anyone with an interest in the sector. Despite the bleak picture they paint, the editors do not write off the idea of microfinance — or, rather, financial services more broadly defined — as a tool to help the poor. But in their conclusion they call for a new “commons-driven” approach, less reliant on market mechanisms, to provide such services.

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Investment Plan: €225 million for microbusinesses in the Netherlands

Fonte: EC - DG EMPL

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

07-gen-16

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed a €100 million loan facility with micro-financing company Qredits, while the European Investment Fund has also signed an agreement with Qredits to cover part of the credit risk of new loans worth €25 million for small businesses and SMEs. Both operations are backed by the guarantee of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the heart of the Commission’sInvestment Plan for Europe. The agreements have been signed in Amsterdam in the presence of Queen Máxima of the Netherlands and Commissioner Marianne Thyssen.

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Investment Plan for Europe: EIB Group supports micro-financing in the Netherlands with Qredits

Fonte: EIB, EIF, European Commission, Qredit

Tipo: Press Release

Autore: N/A

07-gen-16

The European Investment Bank Group (EIB and EIF) will support Dutch micro-finance institution Qredits in giving very small businesses in the Netherlands access to finance. The European Investment Bank has agreed a EUR 100 million loan facility with Qredits, while the European Investment Fund has also signed an agreement with Qredits to cover part of the credit risk of new loans worth EUR 25 million for microbusinesses and SMEs. Both operations are backed by the guarantee of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the heart of the Juncker Commission’s Investment Plan for Europe.

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The Crises of Microcredit

Fonte: The University of Chicago Press

Tipo: Book

Autore: Guérin I., Labie M., Sevet J-M.

24-dic-15

Drawing on extensive empirical research, this important volume examines the whole chain of microcredit—from investors and donors to clients— in order to provide a comprehensive analysis of its impact. In doing so, the essays collected here shed light on the many causes of the current microcredit crisis, including microcredit organizations that have been unprepared for massive growth and greedy investors and shareholders attracted by profits. The result is a timely and necessary look at what has become one of the most contentious topics within global economic development.

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Bringing candidate countries closer to the EU with cross-border cooperation

Fonte: EC Press Release Database

Tipo: Press release

Autore: N/A

16-dic-15

The European Commission adopted the new cross-border cooperation programme for Italy, Montenegro and Albania, worth nearly €93 million, with almost €79 million coming from the European Regional Development Fund and the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA). This is the last cross-border cooperation programme to be adopted in 2015.

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Kiva Sets New Rules for US borrowers to get crowdfunded loans

Fonte: The Wall Street Journal

Tipo: News

Autore: Ruth Simon

16-dic-15

If business can get the backing from their social networks, they can access the newer Kiva Zip platform to crowdfund loans of up to $10,000, that carry 0% interest, no fees and terms of up to three years. Borrowers must meet their fundraising goal to receive any of the money.

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€78 million of EU funds to boost innovation in the Italian-Slovenian border

Fonte: EC - InfoRegio

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

15-dic-15

 

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€105 million of EU funds to increase economic competitiveness in the Greek–Italian border region - Regional Policy - European Commission

Fonte: EC - InfoRegio

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

15-dic-15

 

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The Commission adopts the first cross-border cooperation programme between Italy and Croatia - Regional Policy - European Commission

Fonte: EC - InfoRegio

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

15-dic-15

 

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EAPN urges the EU to put people first or Europe will wither without strong social dimension | #2015EAPN Annual Conference

Fonte: EAPN

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

11-dic-15

 

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Dai-ichi Bank invests in first microfinance bonds issued by the EBRD for institutional investor

Fonte: EBRD

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

09-dic-15

 

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Microloans Don’t Solve Poverty. But research might reveal what will

Fonte: Five Thirsty Eight

Tipo: Press release

Autore: Ben Casselman

08-dic-15

 

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New pathways for the long-term unemployed

Fonte: EC - DG EMPL.

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

07-dic-15

 

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Microcredito e inclusione sociale. Oggi un convegno

Fonte: Messaggero Veneto

Tipo: Press release

Autore: N/A

01-dic-15

 

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Draft Joint Employment Report from the Commission and the Council

Fonte: European Commission

Tipo: Report

Autore: N/A

26-nov-15

 

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Italia Lavoro: nuove realtà imprenditoriali e di autoimpiego di giovani stranieri

Fonte: FASI

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

16-nov-15

 

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Microloans: helping people out of unemployment and poverty

Fonte: European Parliament

Tipo: Report

Autore: Sven Schulze

09-nov-15

 

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Fewer than 1 in 10 microcredit applications successful

Fonte: The Portugal News

Tipo: News

Autore: TPN / Lusa

06-nov-15

 

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Digital Highways for MFI's

Fonte: The Financial Express

Tipo: News

Autore: P. Satish

02-nov-15

 

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France's Total, babyloan to set up crowdfunding platform for energy

Fonte: Renewables

Tipo: News

Autore: Mariyana Yaneva

02-nov-15

 

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Moving Beyond Microcredit

Fonte: The New Yorker

Tipo: News

Autore: Matt Mossman

02-nov-15

 

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On Including information in State Register of Microfinance Organisations

Fonte: The Central Bank of the Russian Federation

Tipo: Press release

Autore: N/A

31-ott-15

 

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On refusal to include information in State Register of Microfinance Organisations

Fonte: The Central Bank of the Russian Federation

Tipo: Press release

Autore: N/A

31-ott-15

 

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EaSIMicPro Microcredit Providers active in the European Union

Fonte: European Commission

Tipo: Launch of web page

Autore: N/A

22-ott-15

 

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Over €283 million of EU funds for inclusive growth in Italy - Regional Policy - European Commission

Fonte: EC - DG Regio

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

21-ott-15

 

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Over €283 million of EU funds for inclusive growth in Italy - Regional Policy - European Commission

Fonte: EC InfoRegio Newsroom

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

21-ott-15

 

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EU invests nearly €100 million to boost transnational cooperation in the Adriatic-Ionian region - Regional Policy - European Commission

Fonte: EC - DG Regio

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

20-ott-15

 

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La Commissione europea e il Fondo europeo per gli investimenti mobilitano 237 milioni di euro in crediti a sostegno di 20 000 microimprese europee

Fonte: EC - DG EMPL

Tipo: Press release

Autore: N/A

20-ott-15

 

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Commission and European Investment Fund mobilise €237 million in loans to support 20,000 European micro-enterprises -

Fonte: EC - DG EMPL

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

19-ott-15

 

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Dlgs 185-2000 - da gennaio domande per incentivi autoimprenditorialita' giovani e donne - FASI

Fonte: FASI

Tipo: News

Autore: Angela Lamboglia

13-ott-15

 

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EAPN urges the EU to put people first or Europe will wither without strong social dimension - EAPN

Fonte: EAPN

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

12-ott-15

 

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Who survives in self-employment - Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion - European Commission

Fonte: EC - DG EMPL

Tipo: News

Autore: N/A

07-ott-15

 

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Interview with David Woods - The UC Observer

Fonte: The UC Observer

Tipo: News

Autore: Erica Lenti

01-ott-15

 

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Japanese savings banks seek niche in Korea

Fonte: The Korea Times

Tipo: News

Autore: Choi Kyong-ae

01-ott-15

 

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Articoli

Original title English/Italian title
Ashta A., Battaggia S. , Evolution of Mobile Banking Regulations, Microfinanza, 0, 2013 Ashta A., Battaggia S. , Evoluzione delle normative sui servizi bancari mobili, Microfinanza, 0, 2013
Mersland R., Battaggia S., Microfinanza e disabilità, Microfinanza, 1, 2013 Mersland R., Battaggia S., Microfinance and Disability, Microfinanza, 1, 2013
Hermes N., Battaggia S., La concorrenza in microfinanza: un divino errore?, Microfinanza, 2, 3013 Hermes N., Battaggia S., Competition in Microfinance: a Bittersweet Blessing?, Microfinanza, 2, 3013
Allet M., Battaggia S., Il microcredito è verde, Microfinanza, 3, 2013 Allet M., Battaggia S., Microfinance and the Environmental Bottom Line, Microfinanza, 3, 2013
Sukadi Mata R., Battaggia S., Le rimesse dei migranti: un'opportunità per le imprese di microfinanza, Microfinanza, 3, 2013 Sukadi Mata R., Battaggia S., Migrants' Remittances: an Opportunity for Microfinance Institutions, Microfinanza, 3, 2013
Armendáriz B., Battaggia S., Microrisparmi, Microfinanza, 4, 2014 Armendáriz B., Battaggia S., Microsavings, Microfinanza, 4, 2014
Afonso J., Battaggia S. , Dal microcredito si vede il mare, Microfinanza, 5, 2014  Afonso J., Battaggia S. , From Microcredit I Can See the Sea, Microfinanza, 5, 2014 
Guérin I, Battaggia S., Microcredito e sovraindebitamento, Microfinanza, 6, 2014 Guérin I, Battaggia S., Microcredit and Overindebtedness, Microfinanza, 6, 2014
Postelnicu L., Hermes N., Capitale sociale, Microfinanza, 8, 2015 Postelnicu L., Hermes N., Social capital, Microfinanza, 8, 2015
Sarker D., I disabili e la microfinanza inclusiva, Microfinanza, 8, 2015 Sarker D., I disabili e la microfinanza inclusiva, Microfinanza, 8, 2015
Battaggia S., Vietnam, Microcredito su macroscala, Microfinanza, 9, 2015 Battaggia S., Vietnam, Microcredit on Macroscale, Microfinanza, 9, 2015
Stahl L., Strobbe F., Madagascar: sfide e opportunità per l'inclusione finanziaria, Microfinanza, 10, 2015 Stahl L., Strobbe F., Madagascar: Challenges and opportunities for financial inclusion, Microfinanza, 10, 2015
Geeraert G., Battaggia S.,  Microassicurazioni contro la povertà, Microfinanza, 12, 2016 Geeraert G. Battaggia S.,  Microinsurance against poverty, Microfinanza, 12, 2016
Battaggia S., A scuola di microfinanza, Microfinanza, 13, 2016 Battaggia S., At school of Microfinance, Microfinanza 13, 2016
Fedele A., Microcredito rurale e microcredito urbano, Microfinanza, 14, 2016 Fedele A., Rural and urban microcredit, Microfinanza, 14, 2016
Battaggia S., Il microcredito nella terra di mezzo, Microfinanza, 15, 2016 Battaggia S., Microcredit in the Land of the Middle, Microfinanza, 15, 2016
Battaggia S., Microfinanza, la 'nuova normalità', Microfinanza, 16, 2016 Battaggia S., Microfinance, the 'New Normal', Microfinanza, 16, 2016

Academia

Author(s) Year Title (Italian) Original Title
Cozarenco A., Szafarz A. 2016 Il microcredito nei paesi industrializzati: conseguenze inattese della regolamentazione dei massimali sui prestiti  Microcredit in Industrialized Countries: Unexpected Consequences of Regulatory Loan Ceilings 
Meyer, J.  2015 Redditività sociale contro redditività finanziaria in microfinanza Social vs. Financial Return in Microfinance
Becchetti L., Pisani F.  2015 Le determinanti dell’ outreach nella performance dell’impresa sociale.  Indagine sulle cooperative sociali italiane The Determinants of Outreach Performance of Social Business: An Inquiry on Italian Social Cooperatives
Cornée S.  2015 L’importanza dell’informazione ‘soft’ per predire il default nelle PMI The Relevance of Soft Information for Predicting Small Business Credit Default: Evidence from a Social Bank
Farazi S.  2014 Le ditte informali e l'inclusione finanziaria Informal Firms and Financial Inclusion: Status and Determinants
Forcella D., Hudon M.  2014 La microfinanza verde in Europa Green Microfinance in Europe
Hannam M., Ashta A.  2014 Imparare da Gandhi come affrontare gli attuali dilemmi in microfinanza Learning from Gandhi: Addressing the Current Dilemmas in Microfinance
Roodman D.  2014 Giudizio finale o adolescenza. Interpretazione dei recenti travagli della microfinanza Armageddon or Adolescence? Making Sense of Microfinance’s Recent Travails
Allet M., Hudon M.  2013 La microfinanza ‘verde’.  Caratteristiche delle istituzioni microfinanziarie attive nella politica ambientale Green Microfinance. Characteristics of microfinance institutions involved in environ-mental management
Ashta A.  2013 Le cooperative, una risposta sociale alla disoccupazione Business cooperatives as a social response to unemployment
Corsi M., De Angelis M., Montalbano P.   2013 L’impatto del genere della microfinanza il caso di Wekembe in Uganda The Gender Impact of Microfinance: The Case of Wekembe in Uganda
Cozarenco A., Safarz A.  2013 L'accesso femminile al credito in Francia Female Access to Finance in France: How Microfinance Institutions Import Disparate Treatment from Banks
De Bock O., Ontiveros D. U.  2013 Esame della letteratura sull’impatto della microassicurazione Literature review on the impact of microinsurance
Demirgüç-Kunt A., Klapper L., Randal D.  2013 La finanza islamica e l'inclusione sociale Islamic Finance and Financial Inclusion
Dumond G., Schmit M.  2013 La performance delle IMF di primo livello l'analisi del rendiconto finanziario Tier 1 MFIs Financial Performance: Cash-flow statement analysis
Kruijff D., Hartenstein S.  2013 La microfinanza e la crisi finanziaria globale Microfinance and the Global Financial Crisis
Labie M., Laureti C., Szafarz A.  2013 Prodotti flessibili in microfinanza come colmare il divario tra domanda ed offerta Flexible Products in Microfinance: Overcoming the Demand-Supply Mismatch
Ledgerwood J.  2013 Il nuovo manuale della microfinanza. Il punto di vista del sistema del mercato finanziario The New Microfinance Handbook : A Financial Market System Perspective
Lee Y. Y., Lee H.-H.  2013 Crescita inclusiva, Esclusione finanziaria e microfinanza nella Repubblica di Corea Inclusive Growth, Financial Exclusion and Microfinance in the Republic of Korea
Postelnicu L., Hermes N., Szafarz A.  2013 La definizione della garanzia sociale nel prestito di gruppo microfinanziario Defining Social Collateral in Microfinance Group Lending
Tar M.-S., Voorips G.  2013 Alfabetizzazione finanziaria per le rimesse e gli investimenti della diaspora FReDI: Financial Literacy for Remittances and Diaspora Investments
Ashta A. 2013 Microfinanza e microimprenditorialità casi studio nell’innovazione sociale Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship: Case studies in social innovation
Guérin I. 2012 Il sovraindebitamento delle famiglie e il fallimento dell’educazione finanziaria, lezioni dall’antropologia economica Households’ over-indebtedness and the fallacy of financial education: insights from
Laureti C., Szafarz A.  2012 Il fattore di incoerenza temporale, ovvero come le banche si adattano alla segmentazione dei risparmiatori economic anthropology
Postelnicu L.  2012 Capitale sociale e adempimento del rimborso del prestito di gruppo in microfinanza Social Capital and Repayment Performance of Group Lending in Microfinance
Schicks J.  2012 Sovraindebitamento in microfinanza. Un’indagine empirica dei fattori correlati a livello del cliente Over-indebtedness in microfinance – an empirical analysis of related factors on the borrower level
Becchetti L., Castriota S.  2011 La microfinanza come strumento di recupero dopo i disastri Does Microfinance Work as a Recovery Tool After Disasters.  Evidence from the 2004 Tsunami
Bourlès R., Cozarenco A.  2011 L'influenza dell'intervento statale  nel mercato microcreditizio dei Paesi sviluppati How does government implication impact microcredit market in the developed coun-tries?
Botti F., Corsi M.  2010 Analisi della performance sociale della microfinanza italiana A Social Performance Analysis of Italian Microfinance
Graziosi, A. 2010 Le catttive pratiche di microfinanza e la politica Microfinance Bad Practice and Politics
Borzaga C., Depedri S., Tortia E.  2009 Il ruolo della cooperative e delle imprese sociali un approccio multiforme per un pluralismo economico The role of cooperative and social enterprises: a multifaceted approach for an economic pluralism
Nghiem H.S., Tim Coelli T., Rao P. 2007 Gli effetti della microfinanza in Vietnam sul benessere delle famiglie The Welfare Effects of Microfinance in Vietnam: Empirical Results from a quasi-experiment Survey

Eventi Internazionali Press

China Rapid Finance to triple number of users on its consumer lending platform

Fonte: South China Morning Post

Tipo: Article

Autore: N/A

08/01/2017

 

China Rapid Finance (CRF), the mainland’s largest online consumer lending platform, is looking to triple the number of users this year as it looks to create a business on par with a major commercial bank’s credit card division. Zane Wang Zhengyu, founder and chief executive of CRF, told the South China Morning Post that the company would be impervious to the challenges facing other peer to peer (P2P) operators on the mainland, and would continue to bolster its microcredit businesses in accordance with Beijing’s financial reforms.

 

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RON 4.5 million loan will increase access to finance for small farmers in Romania

Fonte: South China Morning Post

Tipo: Press Release

Autore: N/A

12/23/2016

 

The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE) has lent RON 4.5 million (EUR 1 million) to Patria Credit IFN SA to finance micro and small agricultural businesses and farmers in rural Romania. EFSE Board Chairman Christoph Tiskens said: “The EFSE’s latest investment in Patria Credit marks a decade of successful partnership and an ongoing joint effort of supporting small farms and businesses to create and sustain jobs in rural Romania.” Patria Credit General Manager Marian Tetici said: “We are very committed to the long term and successful partnership with EFSE and to building further towards financial inclusion, local development and the growth of small companies and individuals in the rural areas of our country.”

 

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