Event Name: Sankalp Unconvention Summit 2014
Event Date: April 9 – 11, 2014
Event Location: Hotel Renaissance, Mumbai, India
Category: Events
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Burgundy School of Business, ISCAE, Attawfiq Micro-Finance to Host “5th International Conference on Institutional and Technological Environment for Microfinance (ITEM5),” March 18 – 20, 2014, Casablanca, Morocco
Event Name: 5th International Conference on the Institutional and Technological Environment for Microfinance (ITEM5)
Event Date: March 18 – 20, 2014
Event Location: Institut Supérieur de Commerce et d’Administration des Entreprises (ISCAE), Casablanca, Morocco
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Opal Financial Group to Host “Family Office Winter Forum,” March 12, 2014, New York, USA
Event Name: Family Office Winter Forum
Event Date: March 12, 2014
Event Location: New York Marriot Marquis, New York, New York, USA
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) to Sponsor Worldwide Events for “Global Money Week 2014”, March 10 – 17, 2014
Event Name: Global Money Week 2014
Event Date: March 10 – March 17, 2014
Event Location: Separate events will be held in approximately 80 countries across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific.
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Harvard Business School Africa Business Club to Host “2014 Africa Business Conference,” February 28 – March 2, 2014, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Event Name: 2014 Africa Business Conference
Event Date: February 28 – March 2, 2014
Event Location: Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Opal Financial Group to Host “European Family Office Winter Symposium,” “Institutional Investors’ Congress,” February 10 – 11, 2014, London, UK
Event Name: European Family Office Winter Symposium and Institutional Investors’ Congress
Event Date: February 10 – February 11, 2014
Event Location: London Hilton Hotel, London, UK
MICROFINANCE EVENT: AITEC Banking & Mobile Money West Africa, July 15 – 16, 2014, Lagos, Nigeria – NEW DATES
Event Name: African Information Technology Exhibitions and Conferences (AITEC) Banking & Mobile Money West Africa 2014
Event Dates: July 15 – July 16, 2014 (Originally scheduled for March 12 – March 13, 2014)
Event Location: Eko Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Sankalp Forum to Host “Africa Summit 2014” on Social Business, February 12 – 13, 2014, Nairobi, Kenya
Event Name: Sankalp Africa Summit 2014
Event Date: February 12 – 13, 2014
Event Location: Intercontinental Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Clarion to Host “Mobile Money & Digital Payments Americas 2014”, April 7 – 9, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico
Event Name: Mobile Money and Digital Payments Americas 2014
Event Date: April 7 – April 9, 2014
Event Location: Mexico City, Mexico
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Opal Financial Group Hosts “Canadian Family Office & Private Wealth Management Forum,” January 21-22, 2014, Toronto, Canada
Event Name: Canadian Family Office & Private Wealth Management Forum
Event Date: January 21 – January 22, 2014
Event Location: Intercontinental Toronto Centre, Toronto, Canada
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Clarion to Host “Mobile Money and Digital Payments Asia 2014,” January 21-23, 2014, Jakarta, Indonesia
Event Name: Mobile Money and Digital Payments Asia 2014
Event Date: January 21 – January 23, 2014
Event Location: Ritz Carlton Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Magenta Global to Host “5th Annual Mobile Payments & E-Commerce Emerging Markets/Asia Pacific 2014 Summit,” February 13-14, 2014, Yangon, Myanmar
Event Name: 5th Annual Mobile Payments & E-Commerce Emerging Markets/Asia Pacific 2014 Summit
Event Date: February 13 – February 14, 2014
Event Location: Inya Lake Hotel, Yangon, Myanmar
SPECIAL REPORT: Why Microfinance Institutions Offer Unprofitable Housing Loans
On November 14, the closing day of the European Microfinance Platform’s (e-MFP’s) European Microfinance Week, Wilson Twamuhabwa, CEO of Uganda’s Ugafode Microfinance Limited, explained that his organization began to offer housing loan products partly because its clients were using 30 percent of their loans for housing anyway.
SPECIAL REPORT: Michael Chu: “Disrupt this Old Model to Unlock the Potential of Microfinance”
At today’s opening plenary of European Microfinance Week, which is hosted by Luxembourg’s 140-member European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP), Michael Chu of the US-based Harvard Business School and the Mexico-based venture capital fund Ignia, argued that microfinance is generally implemented using a 20-year-old model that is inefficient and “ripe for disruption” through technology.
MICROFINANCE EVENT: African Microfinance Week, Arusha, Tanzania, December 2-6, 2013
Event Name: African Microfinance Week: “Regulation of the African Microfinance Sector: 20 Years After”
Event Date: December 2-6, 2013
Event Location: The Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge (Victoria Conference Hall), Arusha, Tanzania
MICROCAPITAL EVENT: Access Development Services Hosts Microfinance India Summit 2013, December 9-10; Livelihoods India Conference 2013 December 11-12, 2013
Event Name: Microfinance India Summit 2013, Livelihoods India Conference
Event Date: December 9-10, December 11-12
Event Location: New Delhi, India
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) Hosts “US Roadshow,” Boston & New York, USA, November 4-6, 2013
Event Name: Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) US Roadshow
Event Date: November 4 – November 6, 2013
Event Location: Day 1 in Boston, Days 2 – 3 in New York
MICROFINANCE EVENT: 2013 Sustainable Finance Week, 14th Global Roundtable of United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), Beijing, China, November 10-15
Event Name: 2013 Sustainable Finance Week (SFW), 14th Global Roundtable: “Financing the Future We Want: China, Emerging Markets and the World Economy”
Event Date: November 10 – November 15, 2013
Event Location: Beijing, China