Tag: microfinace

MFIs that are not small finance banks can also find ways to increase their market share.This note discusses all these aspects in detail.

This video explores the new area of WatSan financing as a potential segment for MFIs. MSC’s Senior Analyst, TVS Ravi, highlights the demand for improved water and sanitation across the world and what role microfinance can play in improving access to water and sanitation. The major issues which MFIs have to keep in mind before […]

This blog reflects on the avenues available for financial services in the wake of RBI’s announcement that companies from any business sector can bid for a banking license.

In this video Jaime Zegarra, regional manager of BancoSol at El Alto in Bolivia talks about the ways in which the bank forms part of the community and connects with its clients. BancoSol is a true microfinance pioneer. As Latin America’s first commercial microfinance bank it has been much copied but never surpassed. Jaime says […]

In this video Stuart Rutherford – Founder of SafeSave, a microfinance institution in Bangladesh talks about the competition in Bangladesh, delinquency management and the key challenges in addressing it. Attributing the emergence of various MFIs as one of the reasons for defaults, Stuart discusses the clients’ behaviour towards payment patterns.

This note puts rays on the commercialisation of Indian microfinance leading to a massive increase in outreach and expansion of credit to the poor in India.