Bandhan Bank has sufficient capital to support business growth for the next one to two years and does not plan to raise funds ...

Small finance bank shares fell after Bihar passed a microfinance regulation Bill requiring state approval for loan disbursals ...

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Recent revelations about the role of Nobel Prize winner Muhummad Yunus in the alleged misuse of $100 million by the Grameen Banks (and the cover-up of that misallocation) have begun to provoke overdue ...

NBFC-MFIs topped the microfinance portfolio in FY23 with Rs 1.30 lakh crore portfolio size in comparison to banks (Rs 1.20 lakh crore), SFBs (Rs 58,431 crore), NBFCs (Rs 29,664 crore) and ...

The Bihar assembly has passed a bill to regulate microfinance institutions, mandating state-level registration for lenders and establishing special courts to handle cases of coercive lending practices ...

For three decades, microfinance institutions have given out small loans to the world's poor--mostly women--and amassed hundreds if not thousands of case studies showing that the loans help alleviate ...

Tantalizers Plc and NPF Microfinance Bank Plc have received caution letters from the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) due to ...

Grameen Bank, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, earned its celebrated reputation by helping poor women in Bangladesh become entrepreneurs. Through microfinance loans — small amounts of capital ...

Microfinance has been hailed as a boon to the developing world. By extending small amounts of credit to would-be entrepreneurs, the model is said to raise incomes, reduce unemployment, and empower ...

The report highlighted that the recovery in disbursements was primarily led by NBFC-MFIs, which recorded 10 per cent QoQ and 27 per cent YoY growth by value. Banks also posted a sequential uptick of ...

Bihar assembly passes bill to regulate microfinance institutions, mandating state-level registration and curbing coercive ...