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 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 ...
While scandals rock the microfinance industry, Christian nonprofits diversify their efforts to help the poor. Microfinance may be falling victim to its own success. Since starting in the 1970s, ...
The NPP government is planning to replace the outdated Microfinance Act of 2016 with a new law that introduces stronger ...
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, ...
Companies such as 60 Decibels, which provide marketing services to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the form of research, are in a tricky position as they seek to defend loans made with the aim of ...
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 ...
[Courtesy Maria Lenis] College sophomore Jose Palau interviews entrepreneurs who own and operate an Internet kiosk in the village of Thiruvallur, in southern India. The project was made possible by ...
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Shareholders and directors of microfinance institutions face difficult choices ahead of the Dec 2026 deadline [1]
By Nkunimdini ASANTE-ANTWIBy the first week of June, 2026, the Shareholders and Directors of every Microfinance company, Savings and Loans, Finance House, and Micro-Credit Company, should be ready ...
Wateen Telecom, Pakistan’s leading ICT and digital solutions provider, has entered into a strategic partnership with Akhuwat Foundation, a non-profit ...
In a major step toward strengthening Nigeria’s digital payment ecosystem, Strowallet Digital Services Limited has unveiled its card issuing infrastructure, designed for fintech startups, microfinance ...
According to the Bank of Ghana, this decline is not merely a financial outcome, but it reflects a reduced contribution to ...
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