You may have heard of microfinance, but what it actually is and what the popular perception of what it is are often two different things. Microfinance began in 1974 when Muhammad Yunus started Grameen ...

Those are some of the findings from research conducted for the 2021-2022 60 Decibels Microfinance Index, aimed at assessing the effectiveness of microfinance practices—by talking to customers. Based ...

The answer: Typically, they’ve exhibited the same resourcefulness that has characterized many other small businesses during the pandemic. At the same time, they face a variety of ongoing, unique ...

People who invest in microcredit loans to help some of the world’s poorest people are finding that nearly all of those recipients of the loans are repaying them, making such charitable giving even ...

Noelia Ruiz Diaz, of Paraguay, is among students hoping that Kiva donors will help them with college loans.Noelia Ruiz Diaz, of Paraguay, is among students hoping that Kiva donors will help them with ...

FairMoney Microfinance Bank announces disbursing over N150bn in FairMoney loans and paying N7bn in interest, using AI to ...

Mumbai: The year-on-year delinquency rates on microfinance loans, where instalments are overdue by 30 to 180 days, jumped to 4.3% as of Sep 2024, up from 2% a year earlier. Even as delinquencies rose, ...