by Sharone Perlstein | Feb 4, 2021 | Microfinance, rwanda, Uncategorized
I visited Rwanda in November of 2020. Rwanda is beautiful, some call it the Switzerland of Africa, for it’s rolling hills, greenery, mango trees, avocado trees and more. Yet, poverty thrives here. I have not yet seen a country where so many of its citizens... 
by Sharone Perlstein | Apr 18, 2020 | Microfinance
Small Businesses are the lifeline of the economy. While national governments have stepped in to help business owners survive the corona induced havoc, the way these loans are being dispersed, through the banks, means a majority of small businesses will never be... 
by Sharone Perlstein | Mar 12, 2020 | Fintech, market crash, Microfinance, Uncategorized
The wold is in full panic mode. The corona virus has effected the entire human population. Governments are taking defensive and extreme measures to combat and stop the spread of the virus; Italy is on full lock down, Israel mandated self quarantine on worldwide... 
by Sharone Perlstein | Dec 9, 2019 | Fintech, Microfinance
Onboarding new customers is a popular topic for banks and insurance companies. Many companies have built technologies to identify the person seeking financing, yet in developing markets its fair to assume that the lack of digital data makes it more difficult to... 
by Sharone Perlstein | Sep 1, 2019 | Microfinance
Greta Thunberg is a 16 year old Swedish national that has made it her mission to educate all of us on the detrimental effects of climate change. Greta is giving us all a wake-up call and she needs all of our support. Mother earth is crying. The Amazon is burning. ... by Sharone Perlstein | Aug 5, 2019 | Microfinance
A breath of fresh air. Early in 2018 Grab launched a joint venture called Grab Financial Services Asia and is now offering microloans to businesses there. Recently, TechCrunch published that Grab announced that they were in early discussions with Ant Financial,... 
by Sharone Perlstein | Jul 21, 2019 | Fintech
Although it’s been around for more than 200 years, the State Bank of India is becoming increasingly nervous about its place in the world. According to the bank, emerging FinTech solutions like the payments entity Itzcash and the pioneering credit service Paytm are... 
by Sharone Perlstein | Jun 16, 2019 | Fintech
If you take a close look at any booming fintech market, you will notice that most companies are moving full steam ahead with the formation of credit and payment products. This means that all focus has been placed on products that scale quickly instead of more... 
by Sharone Perlstein | May 20, 2019 | Fintech
We recently delved into the ways that financial assets stand to benefit from blockchain technology so we can now discuss a bit about which markets stand to be affected most by this trend. There has been much talk recently about blockchain technology, usually in the... 
by Sharone Perlstein | May 1, 2019 | Microfinance
Digital innovation is trending in the financial inclusion sector. Words like big data, mobile wallets, and digital credit are buzzwords at financial inclusion and microfinance conferences. Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in general understand that they need to...
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