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Ishenim, CreditInfo Partner on Shareholder Agreement

Ishenim, CreditInfo Partner on Shareholder Agreement

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Fabrizio Fraboni
Aug 03, 2017

On June 29, 2017, the Kyrgyz Republic’s Credit Information Bureau “Ishenim” and Iceland-based CreditInfo Solutions commemorated the beginning of a strategic and technical partnership in a landmark shareholder agreement signing ceremony. This fundamental occasion marked an important milestone in the World Bank Group’s Azerbaijan and Central Asia Financial...

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Ishenim, CreditInfo Partner on Shareholder Agreement

Ishenim, CreditInfo Partner on Shareholder Agreement

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Fabrizio Fraboni

Aug 03, 2017
On June 29, 2017, the Kyrgyz Republic’s Credit Information Bureau “Ishenim” and Iceland-based CreditInfo Solutions commemorated the beginning of a strategic and technical partnership in a landmark shareholder agreement signing ceremony. This fundamental occasion marked an important milestone in the World Bank Group’s Azerbaijan and Central Asia...
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Is it Time for the Credit Scoring Industry to Have an Official Set of Global Guiding Principles?

Is it Time for the Credit Scoring Industry to Have an Official Set of Global Guiding Principles?

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Tony Lythgoe

Sep 29, 2015
Credit Scoring, the process of building mathematical models to predict future credit behavior, is ubiquitous in developed economies and offers significant potential for increasing access to finance and financial inclusion in emerging markets. From its origins in small value credit decisioning in the UK and USA credit scoring has provided, through...
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Credit Data Gaps Exist, But They Can be Filled

Credit Data Gaps Exist, But They Can be Filled

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Michael Turner

May 19, 2015
Consumer and Micro-, Small, and Medium Enterprise (MSME) lending has increasingly become driven by data. This data-driven lending has increased credit access and has resulted in fairer, more objective lending. However, needless to say, data driven lending requires data. Those who do not have data collected on them to properly assess credit risk...
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Poor Access to Finance for Women-owned Businesses in India: The Role of Financial Institutions

Poor Access to Finance for Women-owned Businesses in India: The Role of Financial Institutions

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Anup Singh

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Abhay Pareek

Apr 29, 2014
There is huge scope for the financial institutions to innovate offerings and channels to reach out to the underserved yet significant market opportunity presented by over 3 million women-owned enterprises in India. Research highlights how much more difficult it is for women entrepreneurs to obtain bank credit compared to men. Though several...
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What is Your Business Worth? - BizEquity CEO, Michael Carter, Has Answers

What is Your Business Worth? - BizEquity CEO, Michael Carter, Has Answers

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Michael M. Carter

Feb 12, 2014
The SME Finance Forum recently interviewed Michael M. Carter, the CEO and President of BizEquity , the first patented and leading online business valuation service. BizEquity was created to democratize and provide better access to business financial knowledge for the Global 200 million SMEs. Why did you decide to provide a business valuation tool...
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Implementing an SME Finance Program - The Diamond Bank Experience

Implementing an SME Finance Program - The Diamond Bank Experience

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David Munro

Aug 22, 2013
I was inspired to write The Guide to SME Financing not by the positive experience in Nigeria during 2009-2010 when I pioneered the approach to semi-automated SME finance featured in the book, but by a largely negative experience in Iraq a year later when I was part of a USAID-funded project with the commercial banking sector that, for a variety of...
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