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 ...

The government has approved a Rs 20,000-crore credit guarantee scheme to support microfinance institutions (MFIs), which face funding challenges and rising non-performing assets. This scheme offers ...

Microfinance organizations serve only about 50 million people, a tiny slice of the world’s poor. But Dell’s grant to Swadhaar, for example, could yield decades of financial services to India’s urban ...

Banks have turned cautious on microfinance after months of stress. The ₹20,000 crore guarantee seeks to de-risk lending and ...

While scandals rock the microfinance industry, Christian nonprofits diversify their efforts to help the poor. Microfinance may be falling victim to its own success. Since starting in the 1970s, ...

Banks expected to increase funding to NBFC MFIs as govt expands guarantee cover while MSME scheme tweaks aim to support ...

Dhan, is a clear sign of stress in India’s most financially vulnerable households. Let’s start with the headline numbers. The ...

The Bihar Legislative Assembly has passed a crucial bill that aims to introduce stricter measures and regulation for microfinance institutions in the state, which is the largest market for these ...

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has unveilled comprehensive reforms for the microfinance sector, imposing new minimum capital ...

Parliament Speaker Dr. Jagath Wickramaratne yesterday endorsed the certificate on the Microfinance and Credit Regulatory ...

India's finance ministry has approved a 200 billion rupee ($2.14 billion) credit guarantee scheme for microfinance firms to ...