The Central Bank is working on establishing clear mechanisms to support the micro and small credit sector, in cooperation with the Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority and the Egyptian Microfinance

With the rapid proliferation of mobile phones and digital technologies in different parts of the world, we cannot foresee its full impact on economic development and private funding.

Two important issues are noticeable in digital credit market development: it can expand so fast that it becomes difficult to control by financial authorities, and there is very limited oversight of market conduct

The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) publishes annually since 2008, joined by the Microfinance Information Exchange Market since 2012 as a research partner.

Sherif Samy, President of EFSA, explained that the law stipulates that EFSA is the only competent authority to establish a public electronic record to disclose guarantees and to bring any amendments or cancel

On November 29th, 2016, the Board of the Central Bank of Egypt adopted updated the procedures concerning payments through mobile phone services, launching the new bank supervision instructions as part of

A coalition of more than 60 donor and borrower governments came to an agreement to boost the fight against extreme poverty with a record $75 billion commitment for the International Development Association (IDA)

The Entrepreneurs Financial Centre (EFC) of Tunisia, a microfinance institution operated by Canada’s Développement International Desjardins (DID), recently obtained an equity investment of EUR 1 million (USD 1.1 million) from Société de Promotion...

The Research Unit has published a report (in English) in collaboration with the Disaster Response Unit of the Global System Mobile Association Computing (GSMA) on the disaster response management by

Organizing yet another one of its “midis” (lunches) as conferences held in Luxembourg, dedicated to the issues of and changes in the financial inclusion industry, ADA touched the topic of Islamic microfinance

In an effort to find the people-centered strategies to promote financial inclusion in a Disaster Risk Reduction context, the webinar explored innovative client-centric model approaches used by

Through this project, The Al Amal Microfinance Bank targets to support more than four thousand families in three districts (Zabid, Alemrauah and Faqih House) with a total cost of 41,500,000 Yemeni riyals over the course of 6 months.