The World Bank distributes about $25 billion a year to countries through governments that identify areas where investment is needed and capital can be deployed to build infrastructure. Traditional conduits of lending, including banks and other entities, issue trillions of dollars to keep the wheels...
Alt lending, and, of course, digital payments, were top of mind for investors targeting India FinTechs these past few weeks. We take stock of two quarters and the YTD — and some triple digit funding rounds — amid the country’s changing financial services landscape.
There is a debt crisis slowly but surely building in Cambodia that could see millions of people losing their homes and family farms — the result of microlending run amok amongst 15 percent of the population. And while the individual loans are small — relatively...
Whole Foods has announced that both Amazon and Chase will donate a portion of purchases made with an Amazon Rewards Visa Card to Whole Planet Foundation, a nonprofit that fights global poverty through microloans. The companies will donate an amount equal to 2 percent of in-store and...
June 08, 2020
The World Bank distributes about $25 billion a year to countries through governments that identify areas where investment is needed and capital can be deployed to build infrastructure. Traditional conduits of lending, including banks and other entities, issue trillions of dollars to keep the wheels of commerce growing. But for roughly 2 billion individuals around […]
August 23, 2019
Alt lending, and, of course, digital payments, were top of mind for investors targeting India FinTechs these past few weeks. We take stock of two quarters and the YTD —...
August 13, 2019
There is a debt crisis slowly but surely building in Cambodia that could see millions of people losing their homes and family farms — the result of microlending run amok...
August 23, 2019
Alt lending, and, of course, digital payments, were top of mind for investors targeting India FinTechs these past few weeks. We take stock of two quarters and the YTD — and some triple digit funding rounds — amid the country’s changing financial services landscape.
March 03, 2019
Whole Foods has announced that both Amazon and Chase will donate a portion of purchases made with an Amazon Rewards Visa Card to Whole Planet Foundation, a nonprofit that fights global poverty...
December 18, 2015
In a move away from its traditional online lending model focused on small loans, Kiva is transitioning its energies instead to “social underwriting.” Under that approach, before would-be borrowers can be...
