Accion Venture Lab, a $10 million initiative dedicated to providing seed capital and management support to financial inclusion start-ups announced today an investment in digital savings company eMoneyPool. Building off of the success of traditional savings circles, eMoneyPool is formalizing and digitizing savings pools in order to make them more accessible and convenient to use for a greater number of people.

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Accion is pleased to announce a new, three-day financial literacy training program to educate development professionals and institutions.  The program, which will take place in New Delhi, India on April 3-5, 2014, is specifically designed for managers and professionals working in the area of financial services, as well as senior-level management officials and master trainers from financial institutions. This new training is based on Accion’s current financial literacy program, which helps clients improve their ability to manage their personal and household finances and become informed and effective consumers of financial services. Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of financial literacy as well as the tools and methods necessary to deliver financial literacy training. More information is available on our website here or by emailing Aishwarya Swamy at aishwarya@accion.org.