Finance

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The global microfinance resource center CGAP today is making a new four year commitment to identify, fund, research and champion technology enabled banking services for 25 million people in 20 countries. CGAP CEO Elizabeth Little...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts y AUSTIN, Texas, 22 de septiembre /PRNewswire/ -- Más de 50 líderes a nivel mundial, representando sectores empresariales, gubernamentales, académicos y de servicios sin fin de lucro, se reunirán el 22 y el 23 de septiembre en la John F. Kennedy Scho...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., and AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 50 global leaders from business, government, academia and the non-profit worlds are gathering Sept. 22 and 23 at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University for the first Global Empowe...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 18, 2008 - Can commercial microfinance institutions organize themselves to protect the interests of their poor clients? The Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International is launching its activities today with a focus on answering that p...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 17, 2008 - IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today signed an agreement with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to launch a 12-month research and consultation project to help private enterprises worldwide create new opportunities fo...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 16, 2008 - IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced a joint project with the Global Reporting Initiative to help companies in emerging markets improve relationships with stakeholders and attract investors by better measuring,...

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. - September 12, 2008 - First Affirmative Financial Network and the Social Investment Forum, hosts of the 19th annual SRI in the Rockies Conference, have designed their 2008 event to be a "green meeting." This year's conference is expected to draw a re...

WASHINGTON, DC. - September 10, 2008 - Representatives from the financial industry and leading human rights activists told the Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC) today that a majority of Americans don't want their investments tied to genocidal regimes and that financia...

BOGOTA,COLOMBIA. - September 5, 2008 "“ The ACCION Network today recognized and congratulated long-time partner Compartamos (BMV: COMPART) in its quest to build inclusive financial systems for Mexico's working poor. Compartamos announced on August 28th that it had rea...

RADCLIFF, KY. - August 29, 2008 - USA Cares Inc., a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping military families, has donated more than $85,000 over five years to service members living in Pennsylvania. The grants were used for getting treatment for wounded soldie...