February 25, 2013 @ 10:20 am By CFI Correspondent  |  

Capital One Financial Corporation today announced that it will expand its partnership with Kiva, a global microlending organization, by providing $500,000 to match loans made to U.S. small businesses on Kiva’s crowdfunding platform, helping entrepreneurs across the country with additional funding to start, sustain and grow their businesses. “If the money stored in our wallets was given… Read More

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January 5, 2013 @ 3:49 am By HuffingtonPost  |  

Venture is a rich and readable collection of true microfinance stories. It is written for anyone who would like to better understand the realities faced by the the aspiring middle class in the world’s least developed countries, the range of factors that affect their prospects for working their way out of poverty, and how microfinance… Read More

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October 11, 2012 @ 9:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) The French credit brokerage firm Babyloan is launching a campaign to help finance 500 micro enterprises throughout the globe. Founded in 2008, this French organization is a micro credit intermediary enabling internet users to champion entrepreneurial projects through a minimum donation of 20 Euros. Babyloan is very active in Africa where it has… Read More

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