The move comes as India’s microfinance loan portfolio shrank to ₹3.34 trillion by November 2025, amid rising risks and ...

The RBI has flagged rising stress in microfinance loans, urging NBFCs to balance growth with sound practices, even as overall ...

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 ...

A key feature of the proposed bank is that at least 60% of the paid-up capital will be held by the bank’s borrowers ...

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 ...

Seventeen Filipino microentrepreneurs and three microfinance institutions were recognized for their successful adoption of digital tools to grow their ...

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 ...

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.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) advises microfinance institutions to closely monitor financial stress as loan disbursements ...

Boosters of microfinance claim that it can rescue people from rapacious informal lenders. That’s not the case in Cambodia. Microfinance claims to have a “double bottom line.” Lending to poor ...

The proposed guarantee cover is expected to be larger than the ₹7,500 crore package offered during the pandemic. To be ...