Microfinance

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Asset Development: Innovations for Reaching the Financially Underserved	Led by Eric Schurenberg, editor-in-chief of BNET.com, this session at the 2010 Social Enterprise Conference focuses on the barriers that prevent low-income individuals from building assets and how asset building is related to poverty reduction. Speakers include Justine Zinkin '02, executive director of Credit Where Credit Is Due; Jane Katz, regional affairs officer and director of education programs at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Erik Shumar, vice president and community reinvestment act officer at Amalgamated Bank; and Robert Duvall, former president and CEO of the National Council of Economic Education. To learn more about the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School, please visit www.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise	179 views
Microfinance Innovation: Technology Platforms Enabling MFIs to Broaden Impact	At the 5th Annual Microlumbia Conference "Redefining Microfinance: Driving Innovation in a Maturing Market", Professor Suresh Sundaresan, Chase Manhattan Bank Foundation Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia Business School, moderated a panel in which five experts on leading technology platforms for microfinance presented their most recent work in the field. These experts were: Simona Haiduc, VP of International Business Development, Opportunity International; Alberto Jimenez, Director, Global Mobile Solutions, Citigroup; Laura Shen, Global Product Manager, Mobile Solutions, Global Transaction Services, Citi; Kyle Meade, Global Head of Implementations, Entrepreneurial Finance Lab; and Gabriel Francis, Kiva Fellow. To learn more about the Microlumbia Fund at Columbia Business School, visit http://microlumbia.org/	128 views
Redefining Microfinance: Driving Innovation in a Maturing Market	At the 5th Annual Microlumbia Conference "Redefining Microfinance: Driving Innovation in a Maturing Market", Carlos Ayalde, Co-President of the Microlumbia Fund, introduced Katie Leonberger, Manager at Bloomberg Philanthropies and Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Microlumbia Fund. Katie spoke about Microlumbia's evolution since its inception in 2008. Katie then introduced the Conference's Keynote Speaker, Alex Counts, President and CEO, Grameen Foundation. Alex talked about the relevance of Microfinance in today's world, the challenges it has faced and the road ahead. Alex set the stage for the three panels of the day discussing such relevant issues as: social performance management, data-driven decision-making, leveraging technology, flexible credit and savings, and market segmentation/customized approaches. To learn more about the Microlumbia Fund at Columbia Business School, visit http://microlumbia.org/	50 views
Milford Bateman Lecture: Microfinance and the Illusion of Development	Milford Bateman is a freelance consultant on local economic development policy and Visiting Professor of Economics at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia. Dr. Bateman delivered this public lecture, enttitled MICROFINANCE & THE ILLUSION OF DEVELOPMENT: FROM HUBRIS TO NEMESIS at St. Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on January 26, 2012. The lecture takes a critical look at the global microfinance industry.	176 views
Leveraging Distribution Networks to Grow BOP Markets	At 2010 Social Enterprise Conference, Professor Suresh Sundaresan of Columbia Business School leads a discussion about whether microfinance institutions can effectively broaden their product offerings beyond credit, savings, and insurance to distribute other consumer products in high demand such as mobile phones, consumer packaged goods and healthcare. Panelists include Omer Imtiazuddin of the Acumen Fund, Caroline Misan of VisionSpring, and Sophie Romana, EMBA '08, of PlaNet Finance US. To learn more about the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School, please visit www.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise	113 views