India's group insurance sector is facing a second consecutive year of contraction, with the top four private life insurers ...

At the same time,  asset quality is showing signs of improvement with the ratio of stressed assets declining in three successive quarters through September 2025.

In recent years, microfinance has come under the spotlight for the wrong reason. The darling of international donor agencies for at least two decades, this market-led approach to poverty alleviation ...

THE corporate social responsibility arm of Citibank and Microfinance Council of the Philippines Inc. (MCPI) announced awarding Filipino micro-entrepreneurs and microfinance institutions (MFIs) at the ...

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

The proposed guarantee cover is expected to be larger than the ₹7,500 crore package offered during the pandemic. To be ...

The move comes as India’s microfinance loan portfolio shrank to ₹3.34 trillion by November 2025, amid rising risks and ...