Did you know that Bihar is the biggest market for microfinance lenders in the country? In a significant update for this banking segment, the state's lawmakers have cleared draft legislation aimed at ...

The microfinance textbook doesn’t have much to say about state regulatory capacity. The idea that small loans to very poor people is effective in pulling them out of poverty is so simple and appealing ...

The microfinance industry is calling for recalibrating the Bank of Ghana’s (BoG) revised capital framework, urging a rethink of both the proposed minimum capital thresholds and their tight ...