New book Microfinance for Bankers and Investors, is being touted as a road map for those ready to embrace the challenge of providing financial services to emerging markets. These so-called bottom of the pyramid (BOP) consumers are the four billion people in the world who live on less than $3,000 per year.
Written by Elisabeth Rhyne, managing director of the Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International and one of the world’s foremost experts on microfinance, Microfinance for Bankers and Investors explores in-depth the challenges of profitably delivering credit, savings, insurance, and remittance services tailored to serve the BOP.
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What happened this week in the money?

Games Industry Biz reported on a Tiga study that reveals UK video game industry seeks financing options and tax relief similar to what the Brits have done for film.
Bruce Watson at Daily Finance weighed in on Obama’s controversial endorsement of the stock market.
peHub reported on the sale of tuition micro-financer TuitionU.comto GreenNote Inc., a micro finance and social networking company. What’s micro-financing and what’s it got to do with social networking? Find out on GreenNote.
Carter Dougherty at the New York Time wrote about governments’ efforts to revive private finance markets, specifically  Japan’s move to …read more