http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/11/09/news-roundup-risk-reward-edition Comments for "News Roundup: Risk-Reward Edition" en http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/11/09/news-roundup-risk-reward-edition <p style="padding: 5px; float: left;"><img src="http://www.nextbillion.net/files/images/News.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image thumbnail" width="67" height="100" /></p>&quot;<em>It&#39;s a moment to balance the global with the local.</em>&quot; - Dr. Abhay Bang, director of SEARCH<br /><br />NextBillion’s news section contains 4 new items, all of which pertain to “risk” in relation to the BOP community. But this risk I am referring to is two-fold. These news items address the wrongly perceived notion by commercial banks and insurance companies that the poor are &#39;high risk.&#39; But the flip side, the newsworthy aspect, is that now these companies are seeing opportunity instead of risk. In fact, they are making it their job to reduce the risk to the poor using multiple approaches.<br /><br />Click &quot;Read More&quot; to read about these approaches...<br /><br /><br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/11/09/news-roundup-risk-reward-edition">read more</a></p> http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/11/09/news-roundup-risk-reward-edition#comment Business Development Consumer Products Financial Services General Banking Health Insurance Microfinance Strategy Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:31:53 -0500 Seema Patel 3583 at http://www.nextbillion.net