Janalakshmi Financial Services and Ujjivan Financial Services have raised Rs 125 crore between them in CPs to diversify their funding sourc...

Credit information companies share data and credit score of users of credit cards and borrowers with banks to help them understand risk and...

The first four months of the year have already seen a number of mid-sized micro-lenders raising new rounds of equity and debt financing.

Basix chief goes on padyatra across 12 states to check ground reality as MFIs struggle to retain pro-poor image.

The World Bank and India today signed two agreements for a total loan of $407 million to scale up microfinance services in unbanked areas a...

MIs should be judged by their median and best, not according to the black sheep that hurt the poor's cause who helped the sector grow.

The country’s leading micro-finance players have pledged to improve the ways they deal with poor borrowers and have promised to review lend...

From its inception in July 2002, Bandhan has grown from strength to strength and is the leading micro financier in the east. ET caught up w...

Sam Daley-Harris, Micro-credit Summit Campaign founder in an interview to ET spoke about the usefulness of micro-credit and also about its ...

Amid global financial meltdown, there has been a virtual halt in fresh disbursements to MFIs by banks and financial institutions coupled wi...

Financing for the poor is getting more frugal now with microfinance institutions facing the heat of the global financial meltdown.

The government should reduce the capacity of UMPPs to a more reasonable size of 2,000-2,500 mw if the desired foreign participation is not ...

Financial rating agency Crisil along with ICICI Foundation and IFMR Trust has entered into an agreement to develop viable commercial enterp...

In India, microfinance is increasingly seen to be providing a platform for the banking industry to reach out to the financially excluded se...

The quantum of investments may be upwards of $20 million. The target firms are not yet clear.

The quantum of investments may be upwards of $20 mn. It is not yet clear in which of the organisations, will these companies be investing i...

The regulator hopes to expand market for housing finance with special products for low-end borrowers.