Tag: MIS

In this video, Martin Holtmann, Head of the Microfinance Unit in the IFC’s Global Financial Markets Department, discusses the kind of risks MFIs face. Elaborating on the risk factor, Martin says liquidity risk and interest rate risk is low for MFIs that are only into lending business. He further explains the risks that are important […]

In this video, Robert Dressen, Vice President, Economics, Business and Finance, DAI, begins with the importance of credit administration and credit control. He goes on to explain the difference between credit administration and credit control. Robert further talks about the principle functions of credit administration such as Reporting and Record keeping, Monitoring the portfolio and […]

In this video series-2, Mark Schreiner, Director, Microfinance Risk Management, talks in detail how credit scoring system works. In rich countries, lenders often rely on credit scoring— formula to predict risk based on the performance of past loans with characteristics similar to current loans—to inform decisions. Can credit scoring do the same for microfinance lenders […]

In this video series-1, Mark Schreiner, Director, Microfinance Risk Management, discusses Credit Scoring System for microfinance industry. Mark says that credit scoring system works best for large lending organisation that have large amount of data, have decent MIS in place and where the management is ready for change. Basing his argument on this parameter, Mark […]

In this video, Gautam Ivatury, Microfinance Specialist, Manager – Technology Program, CGAP, talks about the importance and implementation of Management Information System (MIS) in MFIs. Gautam also stresses upon the importance of involving people in the development process of MIS. He further talks about making the MIS adaptive to the future needs of the MFIs.

This paper discusses the scope of improvement for MFIs in IT. A range of areas has been summarised which can be developed to improve the usage of IT in MFIs.