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 Microcredit Bank Ordinance 2025, drafted to establish a specialised microcredit bank to expand access to capital for small and emerging entrepreneurs under a social business framework, could ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cambodian Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) backed by international investors have aggressively marketed loans to Indigenous communities, targeting the value of their land as collateral for loans.

By Nkunimdini ASANTE-ANTWIBy the first week of June, 2026, the Shareholders and Directors of every Microfinance company, Savings and Loans, Finance House, and Micro-Credit Company, should be ready ...

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 ...

If you are confused by personal finance terms, jargon and calculations, here’s a series to simplify and deconstruct these for ...

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 ...

This was compounded by customer overlap, as microfinance institutions moved up-ticket while fintechs and other NBFCs moved down-ticket, giving borrowers multiple access points to credit. Against this ...