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Nicole Valentine
Nicole Valentine is the director, FinTech at the Milken Institute with over a decade of fina
ncial services, international mergers and acquisitions, technology, and innovation experience.
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Leaving Transferred Money on the Table: Will Remittance-Linked Financial Products Add Value to Development Financing?
For centuries migrant workers who send money home to their families have been a major source of inf
lows for developing countries. However, it is only in the past few decades that we have been able to put a number to these remittances.
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PLUM Phase II Summary: Lessons Learned for Advancing Minority Small Business Capital Access
The Milken Institute and U.S.
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Clearing a Path for Global Development Finance: Enabling Basel and Development Guarantees to Deliver on Sustainable Development Goals
On August 2, 2017, the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (CFM) convened a roundtable to
discuss how addressing global financial regulatory issues may foster greater G20 bank investments aligned to the U.N.
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Walmart: The New “Go-To” Bank?
In October 2014, Walmart announced that it was teaming with GoBank to provide banking services to i
ts customers. This follows earlier attempts by Walmart to enter banking more directly through a wholly-owned subsidiary.
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Framing the Issues: Strengthening Capital Markets in Developing Countries
On March 14, 2014 the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (CFM) hosted a working roundtab
le titled “Framing the Issues: Strengthening Capital Markets in Developing Countries.” The day-long event in Washington, DC convened scholars, officials f
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The Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets (PLUM): Increasing Minority Entrepreneurs Access to Capital
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Empowering Communities and Their Banks: Strategies for Enhancing Minority Depository Institutions
The Milken Institute, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation and JP Morgan Chase & Co., i
s excited to release its latest contribution to the national conversation on how to improve underserved communities.
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Priming SDG Markets: Can International Donors and Implementers Create An Impact Investment Pipeline?
Leveraging the power of markets is critical to fulfilling the bold ambitions of the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Minority-Owned Depository Institutions: A Market Overview
The Milken Institute and the US Small Business Administration formed an initiative to develop actio
nable solutions to the challenges limiting minority-owned small businesses’ access to capital.
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Affordable Rent and Access to Homeownership: Refreshing the Debate in the Context of Housing Finance Reform
The continuing policy debate over restructuring the plumbing of the secondary mortgage market may u
ltimately prove to be the easy part—at least politically—of housing finance reform.
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Debt, Equity, and Free Money: How Local and State Governments Can Promote Minority Small Business Capital Access
This report explores how local and statewide governmental institutions can increase access to capit
al among Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs and small-businesses owners.
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