Lately, microfinance has been attracting attention for all the wrong reasons. The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship started off here March 30 with a discussion of what lessons social ...

Explore the complexities of microfinance, its benefits, challenges, and the need for better regulation and financial ...

The International Association of Microfinance Investors (IAMFI) today issued a report, sponsored by Morgan Stanley, on best practices and guidelines for handling debt defaults by microfinance ...

The share of MFI loans in the 1–90 days past due category fell sharply to 2.77% from 5.39% in September and 8.45% in April ...

For Saccos and microfinance institutions, accreditation has provided a pathway into the formal credit reporting ecosystem, ...

Veena Mankar, a banker in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India, looked at the slums in her city and wondered why needy people in urban areas could not benefit from the same access to loans and other ...

Axis Bank is evaluating the acquisition of the promoter stake in microfinance lender CreditAccess Grameen and may place a bid ...

The CBN has issued national operating licences to fintech firms like Opay and Moniepoint, enhancing digital banking access ...

Hit by the credit crunch, lenders anticipate fewer loans to the poor. When Mama Atiya’s husband died in 2006, her in-laws claimed the family property, a patriarchal tradition in the Democratic ...

Microfinance in Karnataka shows recovery signs despite rising delinquency, with loan outstanding at ₹12,128 crores by ...

KATHMANDU, Jan 20: Microfinance financial institutions have been allowed to provide assistance to the families of clients ...