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Cambodia’s Wing Bank: Art of Becoming ‘Necessary’ — and Creating a Bank for Every Cambodian
Bill Gates once said, “Banking is necessary, but banks are not.” Those words struck a chord with the CEO of Cambodia’s Wing Bank, Han Peng Kwang — who resolved to make his financial institution “necessary”. Banking started with the Medici
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Support, Know-how, and Care for People and Environment All Add Up to ‘the EXIM Equation’
Export-Import Bank of Thailand, known to its friends as EXIM Thailand, is a state-owned specialised financial institution under the supervision of the Thai Ministry of Finance. It was established in 1993 with the objective to promote and support national development
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Tamsin Lejeune: Saving the World in Style
Tamsin Lejeune, founder and CEO of the Ethical Fashion Forum and Common Objective, is uniting a global community behind a mission to make fashion more sustainable. Lejeune worked as an architect before striking out in the fashion industry. She grew
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Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Takes Private 5G Tech to the Next Level
The pandemic has negatively affected enterprises in many ways — but it has also accelerated digital transformation in Taiwan’s activity in the cloud, Internet of Things, and edge technology spheres. Chunghwa Telecom provides business opportunities for Taiwan’s private 5G enterprise
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From the Black Plague to the Covid Crisis, Quarantine has Affected Maritime Trade
An overly familiar term in the 2020s, “quarantine”, dates from the 14th Century and is derived from quarantena — Italian for 40 — the number of days ships were held in the port of Venice, crews aboard, during the Black
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Wing (Cambodia) Limited Specialised Bank: Mobile Banking System is Taking Wing in Cambodia
In Cambodia, 16.5 percent of the population lives below the national poverty line, and 83 percent of citizens are still unbanked. The result is that critical financial services, such as sending money to relatives, can sometimes be impossible. Since its
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Wing (Cambodia) Limited Specialised Bank: Bringing the Unbanked Online
The smartphone, ubiquitous in all corners of the world, is proving a powerful tool for the promotion of financial inclusion. Even those armed with not-so-smart mobile phones can easily access a whole range of banking services previously unavailable to all
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The Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) of UNCDF: Climate Change Impacts on Natural and Human Systems
“For women, the road was crucial. It was hard to deliver babies because of access: we had to go to the hospital by boat – it was risky. And also for the children, floods made it impossible for them to
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Noam Chomsky: Unravelling Established Truths
It is hard, if not downright impossible, to gain the upper hand in a debate with a logician who is a walking, and talking, encyclopaedia to boot. Noam Chomsky, a self-styled anarcho-syndicalist and a linguist of great distinction, is not
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Revenue Watch: 4 out of 5 Companies Fail in Good Governance
The Resource Governance Index (RGI) measures the quality of governance in the oil, gas and mining sector of 58 countries. From highly ranked countries like Norway, the United Kingdom and Brazil to lowranking countries like Qatar, Turkmenistan and Myanmar, the
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