There is a market for microfinance in the United States but a change in regulatory framework is needed for the sector to thrive. Women sell items at a Grameen America open house at St. John’s ...

In a major step toward strengthening Nigeria’s digital payment ecosystem, Strowallet Digital Services Limited has unveiled its card issuing infrastructure, designed for fintech startups, microfinance ...

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 Bihar Legislative Assembly has passed a crucial bill that aims to introduce stricter measures and regulation for microfinance institutions in the state, which is the largest market for these ...

Valentine ‘Segun Whensu Whensu, Managing Director/Chief Executive, Global Initiative Microfinance Bank is President, National Association of Microfinance Banks. In this interview with Adetutu Audu he ...

I spent the first five years of my career trying to understand everything about the Grameen Bank and its founder, Professor Muhammad Yunus, who would go on to share the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. I spent ...

The growing digitisation helped the country’s microfinance industry grow over 16 times in the last decade, and this presents an opportunity for the fintech players Fintech startups have the capability ...

The Bihar Micro Finance Institutions (Regulations of Money Lending and Prevention of Coercive Actions) Bill, 2026, aims to regulate micro-finance institutions (MFI) and small loan providers (SLP) ...

India Ratings and Research says that the proposed regulation may disrupt collections and tighten lending in the key market ...

Strict enforcement of the rule book by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on sharing credit information with credit information companies (CICs) and accessing it from them has put non-profit microfinance ...

Dar es Salaam. Tanzania’s microfinance sector, long seen as a lifeline for small businesses, farmers and low-income borrowers ...

Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, Vol. 4, No. 2 (11) (May 2009), pp. 112-133 (22 pages) AbstractThe main focus of this research is to critically evaluate the sustainability ...