I spent the first five years of my career trying to understand everything about the Grameen Bank and its founder, Professor Muhammad Yunus, who would go on to share the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. I spent ...

The Microcredit Bank Ordinance 2025, drafted to establish a specialised microcredit bank to expand access to capital for small and emerging entrepreneurs under a social business framework, could ...

The RBI has flagged rising stress in microfinance loans, urging NBFCs to balance growth with sound practices, even as overall ...

MFIs obtain ratings either to lower their cost of funds, or to tap a broader pool of investors. That’s why the likes of Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch have only just begun to look at MFIs and ...

The growing digitisation helped the country’s microfinance industry grow over 16 times in the last decade, and this presents an opportunity for the fintech players Fintech startups have the capability ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) advises microfinance institutions to closely monitor financial stress as loan disbursements ...

Temenos (SIX: TEMN) (www.Temenos.com), the banking software company, today announces that Barko Financial Services selected Temenos software to replace its legacy systems, in both core and front ...

The Chartered Institute of Credit Management (CICM) is backing the Bank of Ghana’s microfinance sector reforms ahead of the New Year Debt Recovery School which comes off between January and February ...

Cambodian Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) backed by international investors have aggressively marketed loans to Indigenous communities, targeting the value of their land as collateral for loans.

Boosters of microfinance claim that it can rescue people from rapacious informal lenders. That’s not the case in Cambodia. Microfinance claims to have a “double bottom line.” Lending to poor ...