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Give The Gift of Savings This Holiday Season Your holiday shopping days are numbered, and if you're still stumped, I'm here to make a suggestion: How about giving the gift of savings?

Jean Chatzky
WalletPop

11/19/10

Global Empowerment Meeting 2010 Sheds Light on New Ideas in Economic Development One hundred senior business leaders, policymakers, and academics came to the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University on November 17-18 to attend the 3rd Annual Global Empowerment Meeting, a private event hosted by the Empowerment Lab at Harvard’s Center for International Development (CID).

Center for International Development at Harvard

09/28/10

CFSI’s Innovators Roundtable Meets in Texas to Inspire Big Thinking about the Underbanked Market Financial services thought leaders visit the nation’s first Mango Store to witness innovation in action

Lorie Bonham
The Center for Financial Services Innovation

06/09/10

America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs 2010 The social enterprise—a sustainable business that creates social or environmental value alongside profit—is no longer a niche concept. Social entrepreneurs inhabit nearly every sector of the economy, from banking and insurance to energy and manufacturing. That breadth is evident in Bloomberg Businessweek's second annual U.S. roundup of promising social entrepreneurs.

John Tozzi, Venessa Wong, and Nick Leiber
BusinessWire

05/01/10

Mango gets fruity with finance US-based Mango Financial is the latest to venture into the banking world with a trendy façade that resembles a clothing or smoothie store rather than a typical financial institution. Charles Davis spoke to Bertrand Sosa, the entrepreneur behind the fruit-influenced bank about its drive to serve the unbanked population. (Subscription Required)

Charles Davis
Retail Banker International

04/28/10

Mango Tries to Sweeten Experience for Unbanked Cool. Hip. Fresh. These words are rarely used to describe traditional retail banking. But Mango Financial, a start-up targeting underbanked consumers, is raising eyebrows... (Subscription Required)

Sara Lepro
American Banker

04/16/10

MPower Ventures Throws Mango Financial to Public Retail outlets target Austin's 'unbanked' (Subscription Required)

Christopher Calnan
Austin Business Journal

04/12/10

Rêv Worldwide eyes Canadian prepaid card market
Robin Arnfield
Payments Business Canada

03/30/10

Rêv Sets Sights on US Unbanked Continuing its aggressive geographical expansion mobile payments service start-up Rêv Worldwide has entered North America with the establishment of an operation based in Austin, Texas. Backed by US-based venture capital firm M-Power Ventures (M-PV), Rêv is focused on underserved markets. (Subscription Required)

Electronic Payments International

03/15/10

30 Promesas en Los 30, Treinta Historias de Talento Joven
CNN Expansión

03/15/10

McCombs is lead investor in new Austin venture fund
Lori Hawkins
Austin American-Statesman

03/15/10

McCombs investing millions in MPOWER
David Hendricks
San Antonio Express-News

03/12/10

Rêv Worldwide Sets North America As Its Next Target
Fred Lowe, ATM & Debit News
PaymentsSource

03/12/10

Shift in prepaid debit industry NetSpend founders return to U.S. market with focus on allowing people to bank from phones

Barry Harrell
Austin American-Statesman

03/12/10

NetSpend cofounders re-enter U.S. prepaid debit card market
Austin American-Statesman Blog

03/10/10

Headline News: Rêv Worldwide Expands to North America
Payments News

12/03/09

Former Cold War States Become Hot Markets For Prepaid Cards Romania and Kosovo, two post-Cold War states, have all of the attributes of becoming hot markets for prepaid cards. (Subscription Required)

Fred Lowe
ATM&Debit News

10/29/09

Card Provider Rêv Asia Pacific Offers Prepaid Products In India Prepaid card provider Rêv Asia Pacific entered India's market to expand access to financial services to India's citizens, a long-term goal of the country's government, the top executive of the Australia-based company says. (Subscription Required)

Fred Lowe, ATM & Debit News
PaymentsSource

10/26/09

A market being driven by innovations In a series of interviews with Latin American market players and analysts, Robin Arnfield explores innovative developments being driven by the region's need to provide banking services to its unbanked millions. (Subscription Required)

Robin Arnfield
Electronic Payments International

10/26/09

MasterCard Goes Virtual in India MasterCard Inc. has introduced in India a virtual prepaid card that can be used with mobile phones. (Subscription Required)

Steve Bills
American Banker

10/01/09

Money Changers: Eight Startups Brimming With Hope for the Financial Industry
Dan Macsai
Fast Company

06/03/09

MPower Invests in Mutual Fund Co. Gratio Capital

Scott Denne
Dow Jones VentureWire

06/15/09

La Reinvencion de Los Hermanos Sosa Fuera de NetSpend, la empresa de tarjetas prepagadas que fundaron y que les dio fama en Estados Unidos, los mexicanos Roy y Bertrand Sosa se reinventan: crean un fondo de inversión con matiz social.

María Amparo Lasso
PODER

05/10/09

Reinterpretes de Robin Hood Does mexicanos crean emprendimiento global con el que buscan hacerse ricos dando medios de pago a los pobres.

Antonio Delgado
AméricaEconomía

02/17/09

Pagos móviles, Nueva Jugada de Vergara El presidente de Grupo Omnilife-Chivas entra al negocio de las tarjetas de prepago y va por remesas; junto con 2 socios invierte 100 mdd para desarrollar productos para la población de bajos recursos

René Valencia
CNN Expansión

06/10/08

NetSpend Funds Aid Start-Ups
Rebecca Buckman
Wall Street Journal

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