Star Contributor of the Month – Raunak Sett
We are recognizing Raunak Sett, one of our great GSOC interns, as our Star Contributor for the month of August. Before, during, and hopefully for many years to come, Raunak has been a rock star...
View ArticleFintech Forum –“Mobility in Lending”
Here at the Mifos Initiative we are going to begin posting a rundown of the most pressing topics and trends in fintech for financial inclusion providing you a place to follow the latest news and a...
View ArticleQuito Mifos Chapter Helps Promote National Financial Inclusion Policy
On August 22, 2017, representatives of the Mifos chapter of Ecuador, participated in an event held by Red de Instituciones Financieras de Desarrollo (RFD) to impact the broader financial inclusion...
View Article2017 Google Summer of Code Wrap-Up
Another year, another great Google Summer of Code program for us here at the Mifos Initiative. This year we worked with our biggest class of interns yet – 12 Mifos Initiative interns and 3 Apache...
View ArticleFintech Forum –“A Complete Guide to SHGs”
Here at the Mifos Initiative we are going to begin posting a rundown of the most pressing topics and trends in fintech for financial inclusion providing you a place to follow the latest news and a...
View Article2017 Google Summer of Code Reflections
Hopefully you read Part 1 of our official recap of the 2017 Google Summer of Code from last week. As is tradition, we always ask our our interns a few questions at the end of the summer to reflect back...
View ArticlePartner Spotlight – BOWPI
In this month’s Partner Spotlight we are featuring BOWPI from Guatemala. BOWPI joined the Mifos team in July 2017, and quickly began contributing to the community. They are one of the up-and-coming...
View ArticleFintech Forum: Digital Credit
Digital credit is the next great frontier for financial inclusion as mobile money coupled with big data analytics is offering unprecedented access to credit. This round of the Fintech Forum looks at...
View ArticleStar Contributor of the Month – Naman Dwivedi
We are recognizing Naman Dwivedi, one of our recent GSOC interns who excelled in his project and has continued to contribute extensively since the summer concluded. From the start, we had heard great...
View ArticleGSOC Mentor Summit – A First Timer’s Experience
Each year at the conclusion of Google Summer of Code, Google invites all mentor orgs to send two mentors or org admins all-expenses-paid for a weekend-long unconference at Google’s offices in Silicon...
View ArticlePowered by Mifos – RuPie
This regular blog series will showcase partners and the innovative solutions they’ve built that are powered by the Apache Fineract and Mifos X platforms. These case studies will demonstrate your...
View ArticleFinancial Inclusion Week 2017 – Fueling Open Innovation on top of the Digital...
This past week we had the honor of being one of the more than sixty organizations participating in Financial Inclusion Week, a week of global conversation convened by the Center for Financial Inclusion...
View ArticlePartner Spotlight – Intrasoft Technologies
In this month’s Partner Spotlight we are featuring Intrasoft Technologies. Intrasoft Technologies has been an active partner in the Mifos community since Generation 1 of our software. Zayyad and his...
View ArticleStar Contributor of the Month – Dilpreet Singh
We are recognizing Dilpreet Singh, our recent 2017 GSOC intern who worked on our mobile banking app, as our latest Star Contributor of the Month. Dilpreet has become an anchor in our community of...
View Article2017 Google Code-In is Underway
The Mifos Initiative once again has the honor of participating in Google Code-In, a fast-paced six-week long immersion of high school students into open source. For these pre-university students, our...
View ArticleOpen Source from the Eyes of a GCI Student
This guest blog post is from Matt, one of our 2017-2018 Google Code-In participants. He penned this impressive piece for one of the tasks he claimed, “Write a blog post on why open source is valuable”....
View ArticleWebinar: Introduction to Mojaloop from the Gates Foundation
We’re pleased to have Matt Bohan and other members of the Gates Foundation lead a webinar giving an introduction and Q & A session on the recently released Mojaloop. The webinar will be held on...
View ArticleStar Contributor of the Month – Sanyam Goel
We are recognizing Sanyam Goel, our recent 2017 GSOC intern who worked on implementing all of the Fineract APIs into Swagger Open API format, as our latest Star Contributor of the Month. Sanyam took...
View ArticleMifos Welcomes Fintech Advisor, Vincent Alimi
The Mifos Initiative is glad to announce the addition of a new member to its team of business and technical advisors. Vincent Alimi will bring 15 years of experience in the fintech space and in mobile...
View Article2017 Mifos Google Code-In Wrapup
It’s now time for our official wrap-up blog post for the 2017 Google Code-In, our third year of participation. This year’s program was so fast-paced and frenetic that I’ve needed to catch my breath...
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