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Survey Brief: Rwandan Businesses Share Their Priorities for Capital-Market Development
With approximately 12 million citizens and a nominal GDP of just under $9 billion, the Rwandan economy is small...
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Minority-Owned Depository Institutions: A Market Overview
The Milken Institute and the US Small Business Administration formed an initiative to develop actionable soluti...
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Clearing a Path for Global Development Finance: Enabling Basel and Development Guarantees to Deliver on Sustainable Development Goals
On August 2, 2017, the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (CFM) convened a roundtable to discuss how...
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It Takes All Kinds: A Diverse Mix of Lenders Promotes Broad Access to Small Business Credit
Who lends to small businesses, and how is this changing over time? This paper challenges popular answers to thi...
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The Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets (PLUM): Increasing Minority Entrepreneurs Access to Capital
The Milken Institute and U.S. Small Business Administration Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets (PLU...
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Leaving Transferred Money on the Table: Will Remittance-Linked Financial Products Add Value to Development Financing?
For centuries migrant workers who send money home to their families have been a major source of inflows for dev...
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Malaysia's Capital Market Masterplan, 2001-2010: A Case Study
This report, prepared for the Capital Market Authority of Rwanda, examines the process Malaysia’s government un...
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Capital Markets in Rwanda: Assessment and Aspirations
In 2015, the Rwandan Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning mandated the Capital Market Authority (CMA) of R...
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Access to Capital: How Small and Mid-size Businesses are Funding Their Future
Small and mid-size businesses are the backbone of the American economy, and access to capital is the fuel that ...
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JOBS Act Titles V and VI: Comments on Proposed Changes to Exchange Act Registration Requirements
Commentary from the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets to the Securities and Exchange Commission on ...
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Walmart: The New “Go-To” Bank?
In October 2014, Walmart announced that it was teaming with GoBank to provide banking services to its customers...
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Framing the Issues: Strengthening Capital Markets in Developing Countries
On March 14, 2014 the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (CFM) hosted a working roundtable titled “F...
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Deriving the Economic Impact of Derivatives: Growth through Risk Management
This study charts the benefits to the wider economy from the use of financial derivatives and is a first-of-its...
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JOBS Act: Comments to the SEC on Crowdfunding
The Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (CFM) provided written comments to the Securities and Exchang...
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The Rise of FinTech in the Middle East: An Analysis of the Emergence of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates
FinTech regulatory regimes started emerging in the Gulf region in 2017. Since then, the region has become a hot...
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InsurTech Rising: A Profile of the InsurTech Landscape
Over the past few years, the insurance industry has gradually emerged as an area of opportunity for entrepreneu...
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Comment Letter to the Global Financial Innovation Network
The Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN), composed of 11 regulatory authorities from around the world, is...
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Bipartisan Opportunities to Legislate U.S. FinTech in the 21st Century
The level of bipartisanship and interest from lawmakers in FinTech-related issues has grown and there remain mu...
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FinTech: Considerations on How to Enable a 21st Century Financial Services Ecosystem
Innovations within the financial services industry are changing how firms deploy and users interact with financ...
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Comment Letter to the OCC: Licensing Manual Draft Supplement on Evaluating Charter Applications from FinTech Companies
The Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets provided a response to the Office of the Comptroller of the C...