Recent revelations about the role of Nobel Prize winner Muhummad Yunus in the alleged misuse of $100 million by the Grameen Banks (and the cover-up of that misallocation) have begun to provoke overdue ...

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For three decades, microfinance institutions have given out small loans to the world's poor--mostly women--and amassed hundreds if not thousands of case studies showing that the loans help alleviate ...

Last November, two articles raised some fundamental questions about impact investing. “Impact Investing Benchmark: What’s ‘Impact Got to Do With It?’ (Paul DiLeo, Grassroots Capital Management) and ...

Grameen Bank, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, earned its celebrated reputation by helping poor women in Bangladesh become entrepreneurs. Through microfinance loans — small amounts of capital ...

The microfinance industry serves around 7 crore low-income women borrowers. Including household members, it impacts nearly 30 ...

Bandhan Bank has sufficient capital to support business growth for the next one to two years and does not plan to raise funds ...

NBFC-MFIs topped the microfinance portfolio in FY23 with Rs 1.30 lakh crore portfolio size in comparison to banks (Rs 1.20 lakh crore), SFBs (Rs 58,431 crore), NBFCs (Rs 29,664 crore) and ...

Bill, 2026, mandates that lenders must obtain prior permission from the state Finance Department before disbursing loans.

Tantalizers Plc and NPF Microfinance Bank Plc have received caution letters from the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) due to ...

Stocks of Utkarsh Small Finance Bank, Equitas Small Finance Bank, Jana Small Finance Bank, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank and AU Small Finance Bank fell after Bihar cleared a Bill to regulate microfinance ...

Shares of microfinance-focused lenders declined on Friday after the Bihar assembly passed the Bihar Micro Finance Institutions (Regulations of Money Lending and Prevention of Coercive Actions) Bill, ...