How microfinance loans work: Features, criteria and approval process

If you are confused by personal finance terms, jargon and calculations, here’s a series to simplify and deconstruct these for ...
The Hoya

Senior Makes a Difference With Microfinance in India

Juan Gonzalez (COL ’15) spent an enlightening semester in India working with microfinance. Not many people consider the slums of Pune, India, to be their desired study-abroad destination. But College ...
Reuters

Microfinance turns India's rural women into budding entrepreneurs

Small loans help rural women boost their incomes Loan sharks traditionally dominate village credit markets Microfinance, financial literacy fight informal lenders NARELA, India, Dec 7 (Thomson Reuters ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

India's for-profit microfinance industry is in crisis

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. MADOOR, India • India's rapidly growing private microcredit industry faces imminent collapse as almost all borrowers in one of ...
Euromoney

Microfinance: Upstart sector is put on the straight and narrow

Microfinance is at a crossroads on the subcontinent. Muhammad Yunus is under investigation in Bangladesh by a government determined to discredit the Grameen Bank founder and Nobel Peace Prize laureate ...
Reuters

Equitas gets $26 mln equity infusion from IFC, existing investors

Equitas Holdings, a Chennai-based microfinance and micro-housing finance company, has raised $ 26 million (Rs 140 crore) equity capital. It raised Rs 90 Crore from World Bank arm IFC and another Rs 50 ...
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CRIF High Mark shows growing demand for higher ticket-size loans in microfinance

CRIF High Mark’s MicroLend report reveals India’s microfinance industry consolidating with improved asset quality, larger ...
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India’s Microfinance Sector Emerging As Key Driver Of Financial Inclusion: Report

The Microfinance industry of India is playing a significant role in driving financial inclusion by empowering underserved segments across India, said a report by Avendus Capital. The report stated ...