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Accion Partners With Ethiopia’s Dashen Bank to Reach More MSMEs
Source: Impact Investor
Ethiopia’s Dashen Bank is partnering with US-based non-profit Accion to help develop digital financial services for small businesses that currently have limited or no access to formal banking, many of them run by women.
Accion, which aims to further financial inclusivity around the world, is providing technical assistance and grant funding to Dashen Bank, which will support the building of an innovation hub and other initiatives to develop products and services suitable for underserved micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs).
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