EVENTS 

Save the Date: Microfinance Impact and Innovation Conference: CGAP, along with partners Financial Access Initiative, Innovations for Poverty Action, the Jameel Poverty Action Lab, Moody's Corporation, and Deutsche Bank, is sponsoring a conference to discuss the impact of microfinance. Registration details will be available soon (New York City, 21-23 October 2010).

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

Enter the 2010 CGAP Microfinance Photography Contest : The 2010 CGAP Microfinance Photography Contest is open for entries. Submit your photos for the chance to win this year’s prestigious award, and tell the world about microfinance.

Microfinance Voices: Liberate the data: The Microfinance Gateway interviews Blaine Stephens of MIX to learn about how changes in their website and database redesign have led to five times more microfinance data and multiple new features.

CGAP CEO Littlefield to head Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC): The Senate has confirmed the appointment of former CGAP CEO Elizabeth Littlefield to head the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

Nonbank E-Money Issuers: The success of Kenya’s M-PESA has raised the question of how most effectively to regulate nonbanks who contract directly with customers to issue electronic value against receipt of equal funds.

Microfinance and Mobile Banking: This Focus Note explores the various roles that MFIs can play in m-banking and the potential benefits MFIs and their customers expect to gain from pursuing m-banking.

Performance-Based Agreements: This Technical Guide presents the rationale for the use of performance-based agreements and suggests ways to incorporate performance-based targets and incentives into existing loan and grant agreements.

Microfinance Foreign Exchange Facilities: Foreign capital investment in microfinance has been booming over the past four years. It can bring important benefits to MFIs, but it also comes with foreign exchange risk.