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	<description>The voice of the underserved</description>
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		<title>March/April, 2009 &#8211; Why Regulate and Supervise Microfinance Banks?</title>
		<link>http://microfinancebulletin.com/new/?p=82</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 07:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should microfinance banks’ operators panic about regulation and supervision of their banks? No, they should not. Regulators mean well for the institutions they supervise and operators should be happy that they [regulators] are in it, in order to help the institutions grow and reduce the level of risk depositors are exposed to. Regulation and supervision]]></description>
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		<title>Jan/Feb, 2009 &#8211; Pension Issues In Microfinance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 07:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The January/Feburary edition is about Pension scheme. We decided to feature the Pension Act 2004 because majority of the licensed microfinance institutions currently in operation have not yet started implementing the scheme. Before we packaged the subject for publication, we made contacts with some of the operators of microfinance institutions to find out the reason]]></description>
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		<title>Nov/Dec, 2008 &#8211; Raising capital to sustain Microfinance</title>
		<link>http://microfinancebulletin.com/new/?p=78</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 07:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This edition is the third edition of your favourite magazine. With your continued support and patronage, we are confident that the sky is not the limit but the beginning for your magazine, the voice of the underserved. Microfinance banks are going through some hard times raising funds to sustain their operations. Institutions without adequate resources]]></description>
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		<title>Sept/Oct, 2008 – Downscaling UBs: Why not? The market is big enough for all</title>
		<link>http://microfinancebulletin.com/new/?p=75</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 07:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notwithstanding the fact that Microfinance banks operate mainly at the lower end of the market unlike the Deposit Money Banks (Universal Banks (UBs), they are still as heavily regulated as the latter. Perhaps, the main reason for this is that Microfinance banks even with their poverty eradication bent, are also into financial intermediation since they]]></description>
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		<title>July/August, 2008 – The Launch Of The Microfinance</title>
		<link>http://microfinancebulletin.com/new/?p=72</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The consensus in the industry was that the fore runners of Microfinance Banks in Nigeria, most especially community banks, failed to deliver because of problems such as weak internal control, poor corporate governance practices and incompetent management with the effect that the banking needs of the lower segment of the market (their primary focus) remained]]></description>
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