9/7/10: ACCION and Elevar Equity Invest in GloboKasNet. ACCION International, through its Frontier Investment Group, and Elevar Equity, a global equity investor, today announced that they have made a $2m investment in GloboKasNet (GKN), a cashless payment solution designed to expand financial inclusion for the poor in developing nations. Click here to read more. 
9/3/10: Measure? Alleviate? No, Eliminate Poverty. “Martín Burt, the founder of Fundación Paraguaya, is making a bold leap. Not content to measure poverty impact, or even to alleviate poverty, Burt thinks he can get every Fundación Paraguaya client out of poverty…” Read our Center for Financial Inclusion's Elisabeth Rhyne's piece in the Huffington Post to learn more. 8/4/10: Responsible Pricing: The State of the Practice. Today, The Smart Campaign released a discussion paper that examines the full range of approaches to responsible pricing of microloans, from promoting competition, to return on equity limitations, to interest rate caps, to comparative transparency. Download the full paper here.
7/29/10: The SKS IPO – Using the Capital Markets to Fight Poverty. This week, SKS, one of India’s largest and most successful microfinance institutions, is issuing shares on the India stock exchange in one of India’s – and the microfinance industry’s – most talked-about IPOs.
We believe that this IPO will ultimately prove to be an historic milestone for the poor in India and beyond, opening the door to assistance on a scale never before seen in the region. In fact, the impact of the IPO goes well beyond SKS itself, demonstrating the role that capital markets can play in fighting poverty. Click here to read more.
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