Microfinance Interviews
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677Interview with Vijayalakshmi Das, Ananya Finance Services Pvt. Ltd
Vijayalashmi Das, Managing Director at Ananya Finance Services Pvt. Ltd. in India, talks to Larry Reed, Director of the Microcredit Summit Campaign....
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546Interivew with Ashok Singh : Deputy Director General UIDAI
In India, 40% of people have no means of identification. As a result, many who are entitled to receive government benefits fail...
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764Interview with Chairperson and CFO of SKS Microfinance – News Digest
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...
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734Samit Ghosh founder of Ujjivan on present state of Microfinance in India
In this interview Samit Ghosh, CEO and Founder of Ujjivan (www.ujjivan.com), a microfinance institution based in Bangalore talks about the Urban Poor...
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8062Role of Women in Microfinance – Women’s World Banking CEO
Mary Ellen Iskenderian, CEO of Women’s World Banking says women have emerged as key players in microfinance industry in Latin America and...
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875Interview with Dr Tara Thiagarajan – Madura Microfinance
Madura Microfinance Ltd (MMFL) has been a pioneer in the Indian microfinance sector and is one of the few MFI’s operating in...
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1.5KInterview with Mr Sunil Agarwal MD of SE Investments Ltd
Mr Sunil Agarwal MD of SE Investments Ltd , a non banking finance company listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange with operations...
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624Interview with Abhishek Sinha, CEO, Eko India on the Business Correspondent model
G E Balajee, IFMR Blog Team in conversation with Abhishek Sinha, CEO, Eko India Financial Services Private Limited on the Business Correspondent model,...
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479SKS Microfinance CFO – Dilli Raj Interview
CNBC TV- 18 has conducted an interview with SKS Microfinance’s CFO, Dilli Raj where he sheds information about SKS Microfinance’s financials and...
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8941Poor people of Andhra Pradesh want MFIs back: SKS Microfinance
In an exclusive interview with NDTV, Vikram Akula, founder of SKS Microfinance, talks about the challenges being faced by SKS Microfinance and...
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5971Interview with Raju Kuriachan, Chairman – Hope Microcredit Finance
“Onerous conditions are sought to be placed on MFIs functioning” Microcredit is certainly a noble idea and a genuine innovation that has...
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365Interview Nachiket Shelgikar – Co-founder, Micro Housing Finance Corporation
Micro Housing Finance Corporation Limited (MHFC) is a start up venture aimed at providing housing finance for lower income households (mostly in...
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350Understanding Rural Mindset in India – Interview with Rama Bijapurkar
Byravee Iyer and Baljit Chaddha of Bloomberg UTV interview Rama Bijapurkar on regional complexity and the rural prosperity in India. Rama Bijapurkar...
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344Immense growth potential in Rural India – Interview with V-P’s of GCPL and ICICI Prudential
Byravee Iyer and Baljit Chaddha of Bloomberg UTV speak with Tarun Arora, Exececutive Vice-President – Godrej Consumer Products Ltd ( GCPL )...
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311Vikram Akula’s comments at Young Global Leaders meet in Tianjin-China
Vikram Akula was one of the few Indian leaders to be present at the Young Global Leaders Summit organised by the World...
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5322Financial Inclusion and Budget 2011 – Interview with Bindu Ananth – IFMR Trust
Bindu Ananth, President of IFMR Trust reveals her expectations from the Union Budget 2011 in the interview below. She discusses the progress...
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4201Mobile Banking in India – Interview with Samaresh Parida – Vodafone Essar
Samaresh Parida, Strategy Director, Vodafone Essar speaks to Siddharth Zarabi , Economic Policy Editor for CNBC-TV18 about mobile banking in India and...
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336Microfinance in a Dynamic Market – Lessons in MFI Operations from Peru
Peru is one of the most dynamic microfinance markets in the world. In a very competitive market, Financiera CREAR has been a...
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428Ela Bhatt calls for launch of India Equity Fund with a long term vision for the poor
Need for “India Equity Fund” with Long Term Vision for the Poor Speech of Smt. Ela R. Bhatt, Chair Emeritus, Sa-Dhan at...
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374Interview with Smart Campaign Co-founder – Beth Rhyne
The Smart Campaign is a global initiative that seeks to incorporate strong client protection principles across the microfinance industry. It recently announced...
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541Interview with Chuck Waterfield , CEO Microfinance Transperancy
Interview with Chuck Waterfield, CEO of MF Transparency, an organization that follows the microfinance industry worldwide. Consumer protection of Microfinance Clients Chuck...
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5851Interview with Y H Malegam on his report on Indian Microfinance Institutions
By suggesting a cap on interest rates on microloans and annual income of poor borrowers, a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) panel...
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4463Microfinance sector in India must be saved – Raghuram Rajan
In conversation with NDTV’s Namrata Brar, Raghuram Rajan, a professor at University of Chicago and a former chief economist at the IMF,...
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606Interview with Anirban Roy , MD of SEED Financial Services
Anirban Roy, Managing Director, SEED Financial Services has been featured in the CNBC TV18 Young Turk’s programme. SEED is one of the...
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292Hollywood Actor Matt Damon speaks about Water Microfinance on David Letterman Show
Matt Damon talks about his nonprofit Water.org on the Late Show with Letterman. We had recently profiled the work of water.org which...
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554Interview with Malcolm Harper on Andhra Pradesh Microfinance Crisis
The “Why?” of Andhra Pradesh – An Interview with Malcolm Harper By Philip Mader – Governance Across Borders In this interview, Professor...
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528Interview with Prashant Mishra , Founder of Audech a provider of Free MFI Software
IMBN recently conducted an interview with Prashant Mishra , founder of Audech (http://www.audech.com)- a microfinance software provider that provides free mis software...
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2831Q&A with Mr N Srinivasan, Author Microfinance State of the Sector Report 2010
What were the major trends that you saw in this year’s State of the Sector report? One big trend that we saw...
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404Microfinance Focus on Pakistan – Interview with Nadeem Hussain
CNBC Pakistan recently conducted a second interview with Nadeem Hussain, President and CEO of Tameer Microfinance Bank Ltd ( http://www.tameerbank.com ) which...