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08.09.2011
Microfinance on mobile phones: an ambitious project in Indonesia
such a large distance, access to services is still difficult for rural populations, which are overwhelmingly excluded from banking services. The new mobile banking partnership, concluded between ...
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08.05.2011
An MFI bought on the stock market
Compartamos, the first Microfinance Institution (MFI) in the world to be listed on the stock market, has just finalised the purchase of its Peruvian equivalent, Financiera Créditos Arequipa ...
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08.05.2011
Microfinance in pictures: CGAP 2010 prize
The goal of microfinance is to provide financial means to those excluded from banking services so they can grow their professional activity and improve their living conditions. But whose lives are ...
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08.05.2011
Pakistan authorises gold as microfinance collateral
According to the UN, the floods that hit Pakistan in 2010 were the worst in its history. 10 million people were left without shelter. Some of them had on-going microcredits and were unable to ...
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08.05.2011
British Members of Parliament in favour of social microfinance
A report by the British all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on microfinance recently attacked microfinance’s role in the fight against poverty.
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07.29.2011
The positive impacts of savings are not only financial
In its blog, the CGAP research centre which is a leading research centre on microfinance, looks at the impact other than financial, in this case social and behavioural, of savings.
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07.28.2011
Earnings go up by 65% in Vietnam thanks to microloans
445,000 families and small business entrepreneurs in Vietnam were able to increase earnings by an average of 65% thanks to a vast program of microcredit that operated from 2002 to 2009. This ...
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07.28.2011
Credit bureaus fight against high personal debt
Online credit bureaus will be used to fight overindebtedness. In the Philippines, the Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP) announced that it will very quickly develop a system of online ...
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07.08.2011
Muhammad Yunus: Supreme Court confirms his departure from Grameen Bank
This is perhaps the last episode in the Yunus affair in Bangladesh. Despite the almost unanimous support from abroad, Professor Yunus, Nobel Prize winner and Grameen Bank founder, must leave the ...
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07.07.2011
Despite inflation, microcredit pulls Kenyans out of poverty
Microfinance is winning over Kenya. In a Daily Nation interview, David Kitusa, president of the association of Kenyan microfinance institutions (MFIs), said that banking services for ...
"The microfinance revolution is now"
Jacques Attali, President of PlaNet Finance
Jacques Attali, President of PlaNet Finance
