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Bitcoin Daily: HSBC Issues First Yuan-Based Letter Of Credit; Sierra Leone Gov’t To Launch Blockchain ID System
Bitcoin Daily: HSBC Issues First Yuan-Based Letter Of Credit; Sierra Leone Gov’t To Launch Blockchain...
September 02, 2019  |  Bitcoin

HSBC has issued its first yuan blockchain-based letter of credit transaction, Reuters reported. The move is significant progress in the use of the Voltron trade...

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Why Microlending Is Branching Out In 2018
Why Microlending Is Branching Out In 2018
July 10, 2018  |  Alternative Finances

On the whole, it’s been a good year for startups in Africa, according to recent reporting in Quartz. Coming up on the half mark in...

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Kiva — Where Crowdsourcing Meets Alt-Lending
Kiva — Where Crowdsourcing Meets Alt-Lending
January 05, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

When Kiva got its start a decade ago, the needs of small businesses in developed nations like the U.S. were not its original area of...

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Kiva Lending Scraps Microfinance For Social Underwriting
Kiva Lending Scraps Microfinance For Social Underwriting
December 18, 2015  |  News

In a move away from its traditional online lending model focused on small loans, Kiva is transitioning its energies instead to “social underwriting.” Under that approach,...

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