The Non-Banking Financial Company-Microfinance Institutions (NBFC-MFIs) continued to anchor the microfinance ecosystem, commanding a 41.6% share of the total portfolio outstanding as of December 2025, ...

In a major step toward strengthening Nigeria’s digital payment ecosystem, Strowallet Digital Services Limited has unveiled its card issuing infrastructure, designed for fintech startups, microfinance ...

Economic Survey 2025-26 urges linking microfinance investor exits to social impact metrics, warning that return-driven growth risks over-lending, borrower stress, and financial instability ...

The NPP government is planning to replace the outdated Microfinance Act of 2016 with a new law that introduces stronger ...

When the rich suffer, so do the poor. Or so goes the trickle-down theory. It turns out, though, that the spreading of global financial pain is far from simple. The microfinance industry, for instance, ...

Valentine ‘Segun Whensu Whensu, Managing Director/Chief Executive, Global Initiative Microfinance Bank is President, National Association of Microfinance Banks. In this interview with Adetutu Audu he ...

According to the Bank of Ghana, this decline is not merely a financial outcome, but it reflects a reduced contribution to ...

I spent the first five years of my career trying to understand everything about the Grameen Bank and its founder, Professor Muhammad Yunus, who would go on to share the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. I spent ...

Cambodian Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) backed by international investors have aggressively marketed loans to Indigenous communities, targeting the value of their land as collateral for loans.

Strict enforcement of the rule book by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on sharing credit information with credit information companies (CICs) and accessing it from them has put non-profit microfinance ...

Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, Vol. 4, No. 2 (11) (May 2009), pp. 112-133 (22 pages) AbstractThe main focus of this research is to critically evaluate the sustainability ...

The Central Bank explained that the reform addresses long‑standing structural and operational challenges within the sector to enhance its contribution to financial inclusion and development.