MFP 123. Amolo Ng’weno: Kenya Experience – Beyond M-PESA. Mobile Money – Mobile Banking Series

November 15, 2010

Amolo Ng’weno, Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, talks about M-PESA which is reaching over 12 million people at 19,000 outlets. This provides amazing transaction rails for other services. 06:09 minutes Download this Video RIGHT CLICK this link (CONTROL CLICK on a Mac) Save Link in a location where you can find it easily.

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MFP 122. Tamara Cook: Efforts by Banks. Part 2. Mobile Money – Mobile Banking Series

November 8, 2010

Tamara Cook talks about one of the partners of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Opportunity International Bank of Malawi, as an example of how banks have moved beyond branches to try to solve the problems that they faced of reducing costs and reaching people where they lived. 04:57 minutes Download this Video RIGHT CLICK [...]

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MFP 121. Tamara Cook: Efforts by Banks. Part 1. Mobile Money – Mobile Banking Series

November 1, 2010

“Today we have a historic opportunity to use mobile phones to solve two major problems that bankers faced for generations: how do you get the cost of serving clients down, and how do you reach people who leave far from the branch.” Tamara Cook, Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 08:05 minutes Download this [...]

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MFP 120. Stuart Rutherford: Delinquency Management – Lessons from Bangladesh

October 18, 2010

Increasing competition amongst financial institutions in Bangladesh has given clients many options to choose from. But competition has brought with itself distortions in delivery systems, stress, and over indebtedness among clients. Preparing for managing delinquency has thus been the priority for many service providers. Stuart Rutherford is the founder of SafeSave, a microfinance institution in [...]

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MFP 119. Stuart Rutherford: Listening to Clients: a Market-led Approach

October 11, 2010

Listening to clients is at the heart of providing financial services in a market-led approach. Financial service providers should always keep their eyes and ears open for what their clients are saying in terms of the design and delivery of the product. Stuart Rutherford is the founder of SafeSave, a microfinance institution in Bangladesh and [...]

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MFP 118. Roger Voorhies: Opportunity International Bank of Malawi. Part 2

October 4, 2010

Roger Voorhies, Founder and Former CEO, OIBM talks about the bank’s institution building, the bank’s experience with technology – cards, m-banking, ATMs, and whether the OIBM experience can be replicated in other regions. 06:44 minutes Download this Video RIGHT CLICK this link (CONTROL CLICK on a Mac) Save Link in a location where you can [...]

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MFP 117. Roger Voorhies: Opportunity International Bank of Malawi. Part 1

September 27, 2010

Roger Voorhies talks about the biggest challenges and natural advantages of doing microfinance in Africa. He also introduces the history of OIBM, one of the leading microfinance banks on the continent. 09:45 minutes Download this Video RIGHT CLICK this link (CONTROL CLICK on a Mac) Save Link in a location where you can find it [...]

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MFP 116. Mark Schreiner: Poverty Scoring. Part 3

September 20, 2010

Mark Schreiner, Director, Microfinance Risk Management talks about the future of poverty scoring and gives examples of how MFIs use this powerful tool. 05:48 minues Download this Video RIGHT CLICK this link (CONTROL CLICK on a Mac) Save Link in a location where you can find it easily.

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MFP 115. Mark Schreiner: Poverty Scoring. Part 2

September 13, 2010

Mark Schreiner, Director, Microfinance Risk Management explains where a score card comes from, what are the challenges of implementing the system, and how one trains analysts. 08:52 minutes Download this Video RIGHT CLICK this link (CONTROL CLICK on a Mac) Save Link in a location where you can find it easily.

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MFP 114. Mark Schreiner: Poverty Scoring. Part 1

September 6, 2010

Mark Schreiner, Director, Microfinance Risk Management talks about the poverty scoring as a way for microlenders to measure how poor their clients are in a quantitative way and why funders could be interested in poverty scoring. 7:44 minutes Download this Video RIGHT CLICK this link (CONTROL CLICK on a Mac) Save Link in a location [...]

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MFP 113. Michael McCord: Microinsurance. Part 3

July 5, 2010

Michael McCord, President, MicroInsurance Centre, LLC talks about the factors that push the growth of microinsurance, the evolution of products and the biggest challenge in microinsurance. 09:19 minutes Download this Video RIGHT CLICK this link (CONTROL CLICK on a Mac) Save Link in a location where you can find it easily.

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MFP 112. Michael McCord: Microinsurance. Part 2

June 28, 2010

Michael McCord, President, MicroInsurance Centre, LLC talks about the best potential delivery channels for michroinsurance. Since its inception as an initiative of MicroSave, The MicroInsurance Centre, LLC has worked on several levels to promote responsible microinsurance. The MicroInsurance Centre is the only independent institution that is entirely focused on actively promoting the partnership model of [...]

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MFP 111. Michael McCord: Microinsurance. Part 1

June 21, 2010

Michael McCord, President, MicroInsurance Centre, LLC gives a definition of microinsurance and talks about the mechanisms of implementing microinsurance successfully. Since its inception as an initiative of MicroSave, The MicroInsurance Centre, LLC has worked on several levels to promote responsible microinsurance. The MicroInsurance Centre is the only independent institution that is entirely focused on actively [...]

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MFP 110. Daryl Collins on “Portfolios of the Poor”. Part 2

June 9, 2010

Daryl Collins, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor” and Senior Associate at Bankable Frontier Associates talks about implementing lessons from Portfolios of the Poor in South Africa. Daryl’s principal area of research is estimating the impact of microfinance programs on the financial management of poor households. From 2003 to 2006, she was the principal investigator [...]

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MFP 109. Daryl Collins on “Portfolios of the Poor”. Part 1

June 9, 2010

Daryl Collins, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor” and Senior Associate, Bankable Frontier Associates talks about implementing lessons from Portfolios of the Poor in South Africa. Daryl’s principal area of research is estimating the impact of microfinance programs on the financial management of poor households. From 2003 to 2006, she was the principal investigator for [...]

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