Explore the complexities of microfinance, its benefits, challenges, and the need for better regulation and financial ...

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

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 ...

For several years, the private sector has had cause to complain incessantly about sky-high lending rates in the banking ...

ANTWI If any man be of sound mind, then far it be from such a person to oppose the Bank of Ghana’s efforts to reform Ghana’s ...

The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has urged microfinance borrowers to adopt the National Pension ...

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 ...

Celebrating the role of technology and innovation in shaping sustainable economic growth, the fourth Digital Financial ...

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 ...

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

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, ...