Event Name: International Women’s Day Breakfast: Investing in Women for a Sustainable Future
Event Date: Thursday, March 8, 2012
Event Location: The Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, New York, USA
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MICROFINANCE EVENT: Aiden Business Solutions Hosts “2nd Annual Africa Banking & Finance Conference – ABFC 2012” in Nairobi, Kenya, March 6 and March 7, 2012
Event Name: 2nd Annual Africa Banking & Finance Conference – ABFC 2012
Event Date: March 6 and March 7, 2012
Event Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Mobile Money Southern Asia Conference and Expo, Mumbai, India, September 26 – September 29, 2011
Event Name: Mobile Money Southern Asia Conference and Expo
Event Date: September 26 to September 29, 2011
Event Location: Mumbai, India
MICROFINANCE EVENT: 2011 SEEP Annual Conference “Savings and Enterprise & Market Development,” Arlington, Virginia, USA, October 31 – November 3, 2011
Event Name: Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP) Annual Conference: Savings & Enterprise and Market Development
Event Date: SEEP Member Day October 31, Annual Conference November 1 – November 2, Global Network and Practitioner Trainings November 3
Event Location: Sheraton National Hotel, Arlington, Virginia, USA
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Panel Discusses Balancing Profit, Mission, Impact at Microfinance USA Conference 2011, Presented by Opportunity Fund, ACCION, Kiva, in New York City, May 23 – 24
Opportunity Fund, a nonprofit organization based in the US state of California that offers microloans and microsavings primarily to people in the San Francisco Bay area; ACCION International, a microfinance organization that provides lending and financial education to small businesses in twenty-three countries; and Kiva, a US-based online portal that allows individuals to make loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs) for on-lending to poor people in sixty countries, hosted the Microfinance USA Conference 2011 on May 23 and May 24 in New York City.
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Financial Times, International Finance Corporation Present FT/IFC Sustainable Finance Conference and Awards, London, June 16, 2011, Submission Deadline for Awards Extended to March 31, 2011
Event Name: Financial Times/International Finance Corporation (FT/IFC) Sustainable Finance Conference and Awards 2011
Event Date: June 16, 2011
Event Location: Renaissance Chancery Court Hotel, 252 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EN
MICROCAPITAL EVENT: C5 Hosts Sixth Annual Microfinance Investment Summit, Geneva, Switzerland, July 5 – 8, 2011
Event Name: Sixth Annual Microfinance Investment Summit
Event Date: July 5 – July 8, 2011
Event Location: Geneva, Switzerland
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: International Finance Corporation (IFC) Expands Microinsurance in Kenya and Rwanda through Syngenta, International Livestock Research Institute, MicroEnsure
Recently, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an organization under the World Bank Group that has been a significant source of financing for the microfinance industry, agreed to confer to three microinsurance projects in East Africa a grant of USD 4.1 million, which is expected to allow 35,000 farmers and 5,000 livestock herders in Rwanda and Kenya to protect their crops and livestock from natural disasters.
MICROCAPITAL EVENT: Africa Microfinance Network (AFMIN) Hosts the Ninth Annual Microfinance Conference and General Assembly in Ghana, October 5 to 9, 2010
Event Name: 2010 Annual African Microfinance Network (AFMIN) Conference and General Assembly “Access to Financial Services: Reaching the Poor and Excluded”
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund Launches Microfinance Program for Persons with Disabilities
The Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF), a nonprofit supporting microfinance institutions and other development efforts, recently implemented a microcredit program for persons with disabilities in the Pakistani districts of Quetta, Khairpur and Swat, and will soon implement this program in Abbottabad.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Sri Lanka Banks’ Association (SLBA) Becomes Supporting Partner for Asia Microfinance Forum
The Sri Lanka Banks’ Association (SLBA), a network of 29 banks in Sri Lanka, has announced that it will become a supporting partner for the Asia Microfinance Forum, a conference taking place in Sri Lanka in October 2010 and organized by Banking with the Poor Network (BWTP Network) of Singapore.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Invests $1.8m in Solar Panels in Nepal, to be Distributed via Microloans Disbursed by Ace Development Bank, Provider of Microfinance and Traditional Banking Services
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), a division of the United Nations (UN) focused on protecting natural resources, will invest USD 1.8 million to increase the use of solar power in Nepal through its Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative (SEFI). The funds will be distributed via microloans disbursed by Ace Development Bank, a financial services provider in Nepal established in 1995.
MICROCAPITAL EVENT: Triple Bottom Line Investments (TBLI) Conference Europe 2010 on November 11-12, 2010, in London
Event Name: Triple Bottom Line Investments (TBLI) Conference Europe 2010
Event Date: November 11- November 12, 2010
Event Location: Grange St. Paul’s Hotel, London, United Kingdom
MICROCAPITAL EVENT: Sixth International MicroInsurance Conference, Manila, Philippines, November 9-11, 2010
Event Name: Sixth International Microinsurance Conference
Event Date: November 9-11, 2010
Event Location: Hotel Intercontinental, Manila, Philippines
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MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: The Financial Times (FT) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Announce Winners of 2010 Sustainable Banking Awards – Recipients Include Co-operative Financial Services, Itau Unibanco, One Acre Fund, Financial Information Network and Operations (FINO) and Global Environment Fund
The Financial Times (FT) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced the winners of the 2010 Sustainable Banking Awards. Co-operative Financial Services, a British financial group with GBP 1.1 billion (USD 1.6 billion) in total revenue in 2009, was named as the Sustainable Bank of the Year, while Itau Unibanco, a publicly quoted bank in Brazil with USD 356.3 billion in total assets in 2009, was named the Emerging Markets Sustainable Bank of the Year.
MICROFINANCE EVENT: The Ministry of Economy and Budget Planning of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Association of Microfinance Organizations of Kazakhstan (AMFOK) Co-host the 2010 Microfinance Centre (MFC) Annual Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, May 26 – May 28, 2010
Event Name: 2010 MFC Annual Conference – Post-Crisis Microfinance: What Is the Responsible Way Forward?
Event Date: May 26 – May 28, 2010
Event Location: Ramada Plaza Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan
Event Website: http://www.mfc.org.pl/conference2010/
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MICROFINANCE EVENT: Global Partnerships in Microfinance, September 6 – September 7, 2010, Hosted in London by the University of Greenwich in Collaboration with the University of Birmingham and the Burgundy School of Business
Event Name: Global Partnerships in Microfinance
Event Date: September 6 – September 7, 2010
Event Location: University of Greenwich Business School, London, UK
Event Website: Preliminary information is available at http://microfinance.gre.ac.uk/Conference/Flyer-MicrofinanceConference-Sept2010.pdf. More details are anticipated via http://www.gre.ac.uk/enterprise/business-events.
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Cost: Registration is GBP 200 (USD 305). Early registration is GBP 100 (USD 152). Deadline for early registration has not yet been disclosed.
Summary of Event: The conference aims to explore how microfinance can help alleviate poverty in a sustainable way. To achieve this goal the event organizers postulate that microfinance institutions will need to collaborate with other stakeholders in the industry. The conference intends to explore all possible partnerships in microfinance and to discuss the achievements and challenges in meeting the microfinance goals.
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Third Annual Global Microfinance Investment Congress to Be Hosted in New York City May 24 – May 26, 2010 by PlaNet Finance
Event Name: Third Annual Global Microfinance Investment Congress
Event Date: May 24 – May 26, 2010
Event Location: New York, New York
Event Website: http://www.microfinancecongress.com/
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Cost: Congress only – USD 1595; Congress and Workshop – USD 2095. Discounts available for early registration (by March 26 and by April 16) as well as a USD 200 discount MicroCapital Monitor subscribers.
Summary of Event: The Global Microfinance Investor Congress intends to provide a place for representatives of microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs), microfinance institutions (MFIs) and other industry stakeholders to meet, collaborate and share best practices.