{
  "id": 238623,
  "title": "Africa's women have invented finance's future",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/africas-women-have-invented-finances-future",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-06T22:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mail and Guardian",
    "slug": "mail-and-guardian",
    "url": "https://mg.co.za/thought-leader/2026-08-06-africa-s-women-have-invented-finance-s-future/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Across Africa, women are driving financial innovation through community finance groups like stokvels. These sophisticated institutions pool money, provide loans, and support members, offering crucial lessons for banks and policymakers on the future of finance and a more inclusive modernity.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Mail and Guardian",
        "title": "Building bigger tables for Africa's future",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/building-bigger-tables-for-africas-future",
        "published": "2026-08-06T22:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}