Microfinance organizations serve only about 50 million people, a tiny slice of the world’s poor. But Dell’s grant to Swadhaar, for example, could yield decades of financial services to India’s urban ...

Sadaf Sayeed, chief executive officer of Muthoot Microfinance said the move could unlock lending, revive financial inclusion ...

Microfinance institutions are transforming India's credit landscape by replacing informal lenders, promoting responsible ...

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 ...

Micro entrepreneurs in developing countries who take out loans from microfinance organizations as members of a group are more satisfied with their experience than individual borrowers. And ...

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, ...

Banks have turned cautious on microfinance after months of stress. The ₹20,000 crore guarantee seeks to de-risk lending and ...

Informal loans drop from 46 per cent to 1 per cent as borrowers turn to formal credit for income generation and financial ...

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, ...

The Global Banking & Finance Review Awards Program has officially opened nominations for Best New Islamic Micro Finance Bank ...

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 ...

In Nigeria, small businesses are more than just a part of the economy, they are the economy. From the woman running a neighborhood store to the growing enterprise employing a handful of staff, micro, ...