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SOAS enhances place among London’s elite universities in 2018 Guardian Guide

SOAS University of London has risen 5 places to 25th in the latest Guardian University Guide and is also rated in the UK’s top 15 for students’ satisfaction with teaching.

16th May 2017

AXA Research Fund awards €1m to appoint AXA Chair in Global Finance in SOAS School of Finance and Management

Professor Victor Murinde has been appointed to the AXA Professor in Global Finance in the School of Finance and Management at SOAS University of London. 

27th April 2017

Inclusive finance around the web

Words on inclusive finance from Hillary Clinton and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands.

2nd December 2016

The ESRC Festival 2016 "Inclusive finance: is this an illusion?"

This two day event on 7th November 2016 at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, was part of the ESRC Festival 2016

9th November 2016

'Inclusive Finance': Central Bank of Kenya: CBK@50 Golden Jubilee Celebrations

16th September 2016

ODI-DEGRP: Inclusive economic growth and financial stability

A panel event of ODI and DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme (DEGRP) brought together experts Stephany Griffith-Jones, Victor Murinde and Olu Ajakaiye to discuss how best to achieve inclusive economic growth and financial stability in low-income African countries.

15th July 2016

DEGRP Growth Research Programme, Call 3: Delivering inclusive financial development and growth

28th June 2016

University of Groningen, The Netherlands: €2.6 million grant awarded to CIBIF research center

Details of the contribution to the Inclusive Finance project that will be made by the University of Groningen.

10th June 2016

SOAS gives School status to Finance and Management

SOAS University of London has awarded School status to its Department of Financial and Management Studies, which has now become the School of Finance and Management.

9th June 2016

Loughborough University - New major research project to look at inclusive finance in Africa

Loughborough University academics Christopher Green, Professor of Economics and Finance, and Ahmad Ahmad, Lecturer in Macroeconomics, will be leading two of the research themes.

9th June 2016

Session at the AERC Biannual June 2016 to launch the DEGRP 'Inclusive Finance' research

1st June 2016

SOAS scholars are part of a major international research project on financial inclusion and growth in low income countries

An international research project, in which Professors Christine Oughton, Laurence Harris and Reinhard Bachmann of SOAS University of London’s School of Finance and Management, are co-investigators under the leadership of Professor Victor Murinde (University of Birmingham), has been awarded more than £2 million.

30th May 2016

University of Ghana and partners win research grant on inclusive finance

27th May 2016

New research at Institute of Development Studies (IDS) to inform the future of financial inclusion

25th May 2016

SOAS announces new MOOC in public finance management

A new MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) has been devised by the School’s Department of Financial and Management Studies (DeFIMS) and will commence from 25 January 2016.

20th October 2015