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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Paystack acquires Ladder MfB gaining a banking licence to offer business lending and consumer credit, positioning itself as a ...

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 ...

Representatives of community-based financial societies have opposed the move to bring all microfinance and credit-providing ...

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 ...

PFRDA conducted an awareness workshop in collaboration with the West Bengal chapter of the Association of Microfinance ...