By Santhanam S Email : santhraj5@gmail.com Rural Ministry seeks to convert MFIs to local area banks. The news flashes in major news bulletins. Even before...
By Santhanam S Email : santhraj5@gmail.com Why this Kolaveri…. Kolaveri …Kolaveri Di?. The way each actor in micro-finance Sector will sing the popular song. ...
The Regulatory Trigger By The Shakespeare Walla Abstract: Current sentiment around commercial financial inclusion (microfinance, business correspondents or anything to do with...
Dr Manmohan Singh Scholarships 2012 THE PROGRAMME Dr Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India, is a graduate and Honorary Fellow of...
RBI’s recent revision in provisioning norms unlikely to impact MFIs’ profitability A year after the Government of Andhra Pradesh (Andhra) promulgated its...
A Commissioned Workshop Paper titled Initial Public Offerings: The field’s salvation or downfall? was written by Mr Sanjay Sinha, Managing Director, Micro-Credit...
By S Santhanam , Consultant – Development Finance Steve Jobs, CEO, ‘iPeople microfinance Co (India) Ltd’ Late Steve Jobs of ‘Apple’ is...
Ananya Finance to expand microcredit to the states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa and the north-eastern states IFC,...
By Milford Bateman The recent events in the microfinance sector in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh have shocked not just the...
Q&A: Puranam Hayagreeva Ravikumar, SKS Microfinance Puranam Hayagreeva Ravikumar, who takes over as SKS Microfinance’s new non-executive chairperson-interim with immediate effect, has...
In this interview Samit Ghosh, CEO and Founder of Ujjivan (www.ujjivan.com), a microfinance institution based in Bangalore talks about the Urban Poor...
Recently we came across a note from Microcredit Summit Campaign titled Record 137 Million of World’s Poorest Received a Microloan in 2010...
Shares of SKS Microfinance touched a new 52 week low of Rs 173.60 before closing the day at 175.55 on the Bombay...
RGMVP has reached out to over 350,000 poor households in 109 blocks of 34 districts in some of the poorest areas of...
Govt likely to introduce Micro-Finance Bill in Winter Session The government is likely to introduce a Bill that seeks to make it...
Mint’s Tamal Bandyopadhyay talks about SKS Microfinance’s plan to raise money and the future of the Microfinance Sector in India.
By Phil Mader Ramesh S. Arunachalam, 2011 : The Journey of Indian Micro-Finance: Lessons for the Future. Chennai: Aapti Publications. The microfinance crisis in...
CRISIL has assigned its ‘CRISIL BB-/Stable’ rating to the cash credit facility of Rashtriya Seva Samithi (RASS). The rating reflects RASS’s comfortable asset...
By Milford Bateman In a recent Project Syndicate publication entitled The Microfinance Catalyst, Harvard University Professor Tarun Khanna, and social entrepreneur, Jayant Sinha,...
The Citi Foundation has provided US$ 1 million to Habitat for Humanity for an innovative three-year multi-country microsavings and financial education initiative....
RBI increases domestic money transfer limits The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has provided an impetus to financial inclusion by liberalising money...
Actor Matt Damon makes it sound like a great idea to give small loans to poor families so they can get access...
Ramesh S Arunachalam, author of Journey of Indian Microfinance – Lessons for the Future will be delivering a talk in Mumbai on...
Q&A: Alok Prasad, CEO, MFIN The size of the Indian microfinance sector is shrinking fast, following the crisis the sector saw in...
Grameen Foundation India last week announced that Indian microfinance institution (MFI) Grameen Koota, division of Grameen Financial Services Private Limited (GFSPL), is...
Experts from the financial and digital sectors exhibited an optimistic outlook on the future of financial inclusion in India during the first...
Students from the Thunderbird School of Global Management recently concluded their study tour of microfinance institutions in India. The study tour took them...
Microfinance sector may decline 20-40% this year According to the data available with Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN) for the first five months...
MFIs’ Andhra loans recast plan likely to be delayed Micro-lenders’ plans to restructure the loans of their poor customers appears to have...
Intellecap has closed the largest private equity transaction for a MFI in 2011 and predicts a healthy trend for the Indian microfinance...