Financial CHUTZPAH

I always appreciate the chutzpah of speaking truth to power, and I see that the last time I did this the Chutzpah of the Week award involved military power. It thus seems appropriate that this week’s award acknowledge a similar act of speaking...

More Than 100 Million of the World’s Poorest Benefit From Microcredit

More than 106 million of the world’s poorest families received a microloan in 2007, surpassing the goal set 10 years earlier, according to a report released on 26 January 2009 by the Microcredit Summit Campaign. Microloans are used to help people living...

Former President Bill Clinton Announces Next Frontier in Microfinance And Insurance

Today at the final Special Session of the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, former President William Jefferson Clinton announced the launch of LeapFrog Investments. It is the world’s first investment firm to focus on the insurance needs...