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 ...
Sadaf Sayeed, chief executive officer of Muthoot Microfinance said the move could unlock lending, revive financial inclusion ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
On the morning of Friday, March 27th, Gapi launched the National Microfinance Platform for Financing Micro, Small Enterprises ...
When the rich suffer, so do the poor. Or so goes the trickle-down theory. It turns out, though, that the spreading of global financial pain is far from simple. The microfinance industry, for instance, ...
India's finance ministry has approved a 200 billion rupee ($2.14 billion) credit guarantee scheme for microfinance firms to ...
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 ...
In a major step toward strengthening Nigeria’s digital payment ecosystem, Strowallet Digital Services Limited has unveiled its card issuing infrastructure, designed for fintech startups, microfinance ...
Parliament Speaker Dr. Jagath Wickramaratne yesterday endorsed the certificate on the Microfinance and Credit Regulatory ...
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