Event Name: Geodata for Inclusive Finance and Food
Event Date: February 16, 2017
Event Location: Hulstkamp Gebouw, Maaskade 116, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Cost: This event is open by invitation only.
Summary of Event: This event will address how “geodata” can be used to expand inclusive finance and food security.
Event Name: Digital Financial Services: Are We Realising Their Full Potential?
Event Date: January 19, 2017
Event Location: Citigroup Centre, 33 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, UK
Cost: There is no registration fee, but in order to attend you must purchase a membership to the Financial Inclusion Forum unless it is your first time at one of the organization’s events.
Summary of Event: This event will address concerns regarding digital financial services and how to move beyond the focus on payments to increase the availability and usage of savings, credit and insurance.
Event Name: Asia-Pacific Financial Inclusion Summit
Event Date: March 21-22, 2017; optional field visits on March 23, 2017
Event Location: JW Marriott Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam
Event Summary: Themed “Advancing Financial Inclusion in a Digital Age,” this event will include plenaries on topics such as collaboration and regulating digital financial services. Breakout sessions will address topics such as blockchain technology, gender, serving youth and reaching “the last mile.” On March 23, participants may visit with staff and clients of either Tinh Thuong Microfinance Institution or
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assembled regulators and trade group leaders offered a litany of current and soon-to-be-released strategies to create a nurturing environment for pro-client financial services. It is critically important to
We at MicroCapital are pleased to offer our readers 10 percent of the fee to attend the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN’s) Investor Forum 2016 on December 7 and December 8 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Just register with the code “MC16”. Thank you for reading! 
Event Name: 2016 China International Microfinance Summit
Event Date: November 29 – December 1, 2016
Event Location: Landmark Towers Hotel, Beijing, China
Event Name: First Pan-African Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME) Finance Summit: Accelerating Performance Through Innovation
Event Date: FORMERLY SCHEDULED FOR November 22 – November 23, 2016 NEW DATES AND LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED
Event Location: FORMERLY SCHEDULED FOR Radisson Blu Hotel, Elgon Road, Nairobi, Kenya NEW DATES AND LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED
Event Name: East Africa Microfinance Summit
Event Date: November 2 – November 4, 2016
Event Name: Cracking the Nut 2017
Event Dates: March 27 – March 28, 2017; Agriculture Value Chain Finance Training, March 29 – March 30, 2017
Event Name: Aflatoun International Meeting 2016: Social and Financial Education Contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Event Date: November 2 – November 4, 2016
Event Location: World Trade Center, Prinses Beatrixlaan 582, The Hague, the Netherlands
At the recent 12th annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), a program of the US-based nonprofit Clinton Foundation, various organizations made 25 new commitments worth USD 70 million as part of the “Girls, Women and the Global Goals” project, which is intended to “advance women’s economic participation, address violence against girls and women, and promote women’s leadership in the public and private sectors”,
Event Name: Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) Investor Forum 2016
Event Date: December 7 – December 8, 2016
Event Location: NH Collection Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, Dam 9 1012 JS, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Event Name: A Billion to Gain 2016
Event Dates: October 11-12, 2016
Event Location: Nemo Science Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cost: There is no fee to attend.
Event Name: Sankalp Africa Summit 2017: Spurring the Entrepreneurship Economy
Event Date: February 23 – February 24, 2017
Event Location: Kenya School of Government, Lower Kabete, Nairobi City, Kenya
The European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP), a network of European microfinance stakeholders working in developing countries, recently announced that three finalists for the 7th European Microfinance Award have been selected from 30 applicants: (1) Fundación Génesis Empresarial of Guatemala; (2) Kashf Foundation of Pakistan; and (3) Opportunity Bank of Uganda.
Event Name: Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises’ (MSMEs’) Access to Finance in a Digital Finance Era
Event Dates: October 19-20, 2016
Event Location: Asian Development Bank Institution, Tokyo, Japan
Event Name: 12th International Microinsurance Conference
Event Date: November 15-17, 2016
Event Location: Cinnamon Grand Hotel, 77, Galle Road; Colombo 03, Sri Lanka
Event Name: Financial Inclusion and Islamic Finance
Event Dates: November 16-17, 2016
Event Location: Sasana Kijang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia