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

DHAKA, Bangladesh – Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus challenged the legality Thursday of a Bangladeshi government order dismissing him as the head of the microfinance bank he founded. Nine members of ...

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

The microfinance sector in India is grappling with significant challenges, as highlighted in a recent report by Motilal Oswal, it noted that states like Bihar are emerging as hotspots for overdue ...

Tess Vigeland: Microfinancing has become trendy over the past few years. Thousands of ordinary people have given small loans to farmers in Namibia or corner store owners in Kazakhstan. You give to ...

In 1984 a group of Bolivian entrepreneurs with close links to the micro-enterprise sector came up with the concept of establishing an organisation that would support the development of small ...

The answer: Typically, they’ve exhibited the same resourcefulness that has characterized many other small businesses during the pandemic. At the same time, they face a variety of ongoing, unique ...

This move comes amid ongoing stress in the microfinance (MFI) sector. Bidders have until December 30 to submit their proposals. The bank's microfinance challenges are expected to exert pressure on ...

Long before “99%” became a symbol of Occupy Wall Street, the microfinance industry used the number to describe the share of its clients — poor entrepreneurs shunned by traditional banks — who repaid ...

The microfinance model has helped to address the world's social challenges to some extent. Sanitation is one of the world's social challenges and microfinance can be used as an intervention tool to ...

In August, two local Cambodian organizations, Licadho and Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) published Collateral Damage: Land Loss and Abuses in Cambodia’s Microfinance Sector, a report about the dangerous ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) on June 16 announced microfinance organization Pro Mujer as the winner of the second annual Morgan Stanley Social Enterprise Strategy Challenge.