Economic Survey 2025-26 urges linking microfinance investor exits to social impact metrics, warning that return-driven growth risks over-lending, borrower stress, and financial instability ...
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Microfinance: Give credit where due
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 awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus this month may provide a lift to the already rapidly growing field of microfinance, and bring financial services to a ...
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 ...
The ordinance creates a new category of institution – the microfinance bank – allowing licensed operators to mobilise deposits from low-income clients while bringing them under the prudential ...
For Saccos and microfinance institutions, accreditation has provided a pathway into the formal credit reporting ecosystem, ...
As India’s microfinance sector stands at a critical inflection point, Karnataka has emerged as a beacon of resilience with ...
From the second quarter of 2026, credit unions with asset holdings of GH¢60 million or more will fall directly under the supervision of the Bank of Ghana. Smaller cooperatives and susu operators will ...
KATHMANDU, Jan 20: Microfinance financial institutions have been allowed to provide assistance to the families of clients ...
In a move to overhaul Ghana's microfinance landscape, the Bank of Ghana has mandated a new minimum capital of GH¢100 million ...
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