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MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: resposnAbility Invests $13.5m in Microfinance Institutions …MicroCapitalresponsAbility Social Investments AG, a Swiss for-profit company that operates four microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs), recently reported to MicroCapital that it has invested USD 13.5 million in microfinance institutions (MFIs) Equity Bank of …

What happens when 620000 lenders fund 615000 entrepreneurs, students, and other microfinance borrowers around the world? Five+ years of Kiva loan activity,

For microfinance, 2010 was a year of upheaval and taking stock. When it began, crises of various origins [...]

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Stop applying principles of conventional banking to microfinance-YunusVanguardNobel laureate and founder of the first microfinance bank in the world, Professor Mohammad Yunus said that microfinance regulators and operators should stop using the principles of conventional banking to run microfinance banks. …Yunus, Nobel Laureate, faults Nigeria's microfinance [...]

What happens when 620000 lenders fund 615000 entrepreneurs, students, and other microfinance borrowers around the world? Five+ years of Kiva loan activity,

Nobel laureate and founder of the first microfinance bank in the world, Professor Mohammad Yunus said that microfinance regulators and [...]

The Daily Star

Overhaul Micro-finance Banking in Nigeria, Says YunusTHISDAY LiveThe founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Professor Muhammad Yunus, yesterday emphasised the need for a complete overhaul of the microfinance banking strategy in Nigeria and other developing countries to enable them effectively win …Yunus, Nobel [...]

Nobel laureate and founder of the first microfinance bank in the world, Prof Mohammad Yunus has faulted the profit oriented nature of microfinance banks in Nigeria. We should remember where microfinance came from; it is …

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SKS Micro Fin plans to seek banking licenceIBNLive.comHYDERABAD: SKS Microfinance Ltd, which has been fishing in troubled waters due to a tighter regulatory environment and a shrinking loan book, is planning to seek a banking licence to mitigate risks. Company officials said they would approach the [...]

The history of microfinancing small loans to community members can be traced back several hundred years, arguably thousands. Savings and credit groups that.

The Global Flow of Microfinance. The Global Flow of Microfinance. Kiva.org has developed an effective microfinance model [...]

SKS Microfinance may approach RBI for bank licenceEconomic TimesHYDERABAD: SKS Microfinance, which is passing through rough weathers, may approach the Reserve Bank for a banking licence, according to sources. "Finer details are being worked out and (SKS Microfinance) may approach the RBI for licence after [...]

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