What micro-credit pioneer Muhammad Yunus started in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a way to help the country’s poor lift themselves out of pov… Read more of this post, Could Microfinance Work in America?, at Change.org.
The market capitalization of SKS Microfinance has crossed US$ 2 Billion as it’s shares rose to touch a 52 week high price.More microfinance companies are expected to list their shares.
Ways for these microfinance firms to receive capital, via either equity or debt, is becoming an increasingly relevant theme. A need for some of these firms to meet unmet demand and remain competitive is practically imperative in the …
Milford Bateman author of Why Microfinance Doesn’t work has written a detailed book on impact of microfinance and it’s impact and relevance in capitalism.
While appropriate credit pricing standards can only emerge over time as the microfinance industry scrutinizes pricing data, it’s great to see these actors taking small initial steps towards determining what’s responsible and what’s …
Bandhan Microfinance plans to raise 100 crores in private equity investment from foreign institutions and do an IPO after two years.
M-Cril report on microfinance companies of India their evolution and history along with growth prospects.MFI’s in India are the largest in the world.
In our next MicroFinance MicroBreweries, Adnan Mahmud co-founder of Jolkona will talk about how development work plays a role in poverty alleviation along side with microfinance by helping those that microfinance traditionally …
The lesson I take from all of this is that microfinance is much, much messier than its advocates normally like to admit. I’m constantly astonished at the number of people I meet who are all excited about some microfinance fund or …
Microfinance Focus, Aug 31, 2010: Suryoday Microfinance Pvt. Ltd, a Pune-based microfinance institution has successfully closed its Series B equity financing.
