The Fifth Annual V. Sitaram Rao Memorial event was organized in Hyderabad on July 10, 2014. The occasion saw Prof. Shantha Sinha,...
CRISIL Research has announced that it has assigned a CRISIL IER fundamental grade of 4/5 (pronounced ‘four on five’) to SKS Microfinance...
SKS Microfinance Ltd (SKS) was incorporated as a private limited company in 2003 for taking over the microfinance activities of Swayam Krishi...
Government prepares to frame laws for micro finance institutions Government has started consultations with all stake-holders, including state governments, for enacting a...
After a gap of more than five years, CRISIL – India’s leading agency for microfinance ratings has released it’s updated list of the top microfinance...
5 issues in microfinance sector that need Narendra Modi’s attention Vijay Mahajan, social entrepreneur, Founder and Chairman of BASIX Group lists five...
Karnataka’s first micro credit society for street vendors launched in Mysore On Friday it launched Mysore City Street Vendors Multipurpose Cooperative Society,...
SKS Microfinance: The company that got too big After a battering it got over the past year, SKS Microfinance is struggling to...
Rs 500-cr fund proposal for women SHGs in cabinet today Hot on the heels of promising easy loans for women’s self help...
Do we still need a microfinance Bill? Now that RBI has defined the sector, it might be best left to the central...
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...
Shares of SKS Microfinance touched a new 52 week low of Rs 173.60 before closing the day at 175.55 on the Bombay...
By Milford Bateman In a recent Project Syndicate publication entitled The Microfinance Catalyst, Harvard University Professor Tarun Khanna, and social entrepreneur, Jayant Sinha,...
By K.A Prasanna, firstchoiceipoanalysis.com 1. Malegam Committee Report on MFIs has imposed cap on interest rate, margins, total indebtedness and tenure of...
Malegam’s Microfinance : The Last Laugh – By M.S. Sriram The priority sector tag for MFIs could become a contentious issue in...
The Portfolio has been rated as PR 1 + SO Highest Safety by CARE SKS Microfinance last week announced the completion of...
NDTV takes a look at how the microfinance industry has been literally brought to its knees after the draconian ordinance passed by...
In an exclusive interview with NDTV, Vikram Akula, the executive chairman of SKS Microfinance has said that despite the company reporting a...
Last week, India’s leading english news channel NDTV broadcast a four minute story showcasing a suicide by a microfinance client. The program...
By Tensing Rodrigues “If you want to commercialise, please choose a different name … Real microfinanciers are not commercially minded. Grameen Bank...
SKS Microfinance has announced that it does not plan to add any new customers this year and will instead be looking at...
After falling 20 % in Fridays trade , the share price of SKS Microfinance has dropped by more than 15 % in today’s trade...
SKS Microfinance Ltd has announced the following results for the quarter & year ended March 31, 2011: The Unaudited results for the...
Vikram Akula of SKS Microfinance comments on the impact that the RBI’s acceptance of the Malegam Committee recommendations will have on the...
By Tensing Rodrigues It is a mistake to look at SKS Microfinance imbroglio as the manifestation of all that is wrong in...
By Rajan Alexander In 1994, Chandra Babu Naidu of the Telegu Desam was quick to grasp the huge potential of SHGs to...
CNBC TV- 18 has conducted an interview with SKS Microfinance’s CFO, Dilli Raj where he sheds information about SKS Microfinance’s financials and...
In an exclusive interview with NDTV, Vikram Akula, founder of SKS Microfinance, talks about the challenges being faced by SKS Microfinance and...
Banks ready with MFI loan rejig plan Banks have prepared a blueprint for restructuring loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs). According to the...
By Tensing Rodrigues Newton’s Third Law states that “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”. When post its IPO...