Microfinance institutions have to make sure their peers behave to protect the positive image of the industry and ensure that the government doesn’t feel it has to create more rules to regulate their expansion.
Microfinance, the practice of making small loans to farmers or business owners too poor to provide collateral, has grown successfully in recent years, particularly in Third World countries with less of a manufacturing base, …
Microfinance — making tiny loans to poor people or groups of poor people — has soared in India in the past few years. Before long, it could reach more people in India than the regular banking system.
Vittana, a non-profit micro-finance lending service which provides education funding, is now enabling lenders to re-lend directly. Lenders on the service now no longer need to go through PayPal directly for each payment and re-payment. …
Private equity investments have put a premium on the valuation of microfinance companies when maybe they should be giving them a discount.
A trend in initial public offerings (IPOs) by microfinance institutions in India could potentially increase the risk of defaults by microborrowers. SKS.
Moderate results are disappointing if you were expecting microfinance to cure poverty. But they are just what you’d expect if you think microfinance is about bringing financial services to people who never had them before.
Microfinance Focus, June 24, 2010: A rapid increase in global commercial investments in microfinance has also surfaced an array of associated risks for.
Microfinance Focus , June 23, 2010 ( New Delhi) : ‘Microfinance Cracking the Capital Markets, South Asia 2010′, The conference on Microfinance.
ACCION Microfinance Bank Limited of Nigeria has reported an after-tax profit of NGN 75.92 million or the equivalent of USD 500000 for the period ended December.
