Posted in Featured News on Dec 22nd, 2010
22 December 2010 [PressRelease] Grameen Foundation and its affiliates, Grameen Capital India and Grameen-Jameel Microfinance Ltd., today announced a new initiative to address the liquidity needs of Indian microfinance institutions (MFIs) that demonstrate a double-bottom-line focus on social and financial returns. Local bank financing has shrunk throughout India in the wake of events in Andhra [...]
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Posted in Featured News on Dec 18th, 2010
18 December 2010 [PressRelease] Grameen Foundation Reaches Next Level in Social Transparency, Client Connection and Mobile Transactions Grameen Foundation today announced the release of Mifos® 2.0, an innovative new version of its award-winning management information software (MIS) for microfinance. It will be available to microfinance institutions (MFIs) as a cloud service or on-premise system starting [...]
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Posted in Featured News on Nov 22nd, 2010
22 November 2010 [GFPressRelease] Cloud computing offers new advantages to reach more of the world’s poor through scaling and increasing transparency of microfinance institutions Grameen Foundation today announced, at the Microfinance Leadership Summit on Technology, the launch of Mifos® Cloud in India. Mifos Cloud is a hosted management information service delivered for a subscription fee [...]
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Posted in Featured Articles on Nov 20th, 2010
By Alex Counts CEO & President Grameen Foundation 20 November 2010 [GFBlog] Recent reporting about the activities of for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs) in India, specifically in the state of Andhra Pradesh, has raised important questions about whether microfinance is delivering on its promise to empower poor people. We take the concerns raised extremely seriously and [...]
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