Dear Colleagues,
MFTransparency started publishing the true costs of microfinance loans
in specific countries earlier this month. Next week we will present a
webinar to discuss what we found out about interest rates in Bosnia,
Cambodia and Peru. We invite you to participatein this webinar to
discuss questions like:
· How do banks and MFIs respond when asked to report their
interest and fees publically in a common APR or EIR format?
· How do government policies affect the prices for loans in a
country?
· Does the average price of loans increase as loan sizes get
smaller, and how does the shape of the price curve differ indifferent
countries?
· How much variation is there in price on loans of similar
size, and how might transparency change prices over time?
We want to include as many people as possible in this important
discussion,so we will be holding the webinar twice to cover daylight
hours in as many timezones as possible. Here are the times and
registration links for the MFTransparency Webinars:
Title:
MFTransparency Data Launch Call 1
Date:
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Time:
10:00 PM - 11:30 PM EST (2:00 PM Sydney, 10:00 AM Jakarta and Dhaka,
8:30 AM New Delhi, 6:00 AM Nairobi)
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/835845168<
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/835845168>
Title:
MFTransparency Data Launch Call 2
Date:
Friday, November 20, 2009
Time:
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST (6:00 PM Nairobi, 5:00 PM Frankfurt, 2 PM Sao
Paulo, 12 noon La Paz, 10 AM Mexico City)
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/602014793<
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/602014793>
We will be using GoToMeeting to host this webinar so that you will be
able to follow our graphs of the data and send us your questions about
it. You will need to register with them in advance. Please choose
which time will work best for you and click on the appropriate link to
register as soon as possible, since places are limited.
We look forward to talking with you next week about the potential impact
of this new era of interest rate transparency for microfinance!
Warm regards,
Larry Reed
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