6/29/09: ACCION Welcomes New Board Chair and Members: ACCION has named Diana Taylor, managing director at Wolfensohn & Co. and former superintendent of banks for the State of New York, as its new board chair, and also proudly welcomes Nancy Birdsall, Ricardo Hausmann, Barbara Lucus and Roy Sosa as its newest board members. Click here to read the press release.  6/17/09: Now Available! New Book by ACCION's Elisabeth Rhyne: Microfinance for Bankers and Investors, the new book by Elisabeth Rhyne, managing director of the Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International, is now available for purchase. The book provides a road map for those ready to embrace the challenge of reaching deep into emerging markets to provide financial services to the so-called bottom of the pyramid. Click here to learn more. 6/17/09: ACCION Joins Omidyar, EIB, Calvert and Others to Extend Insurance to the Poor: The LeapFrog Financial Inclusion Fund has raised $44 million from ACCION and fellow investors for what is the world's first investment fund focused on microinsurance. Read what Reuters India published about this latest step toward full financial inclusion here.
 
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