Micro credit involves very small loans of up to Rs 25,000 to poor borrowers, who lack collateral and steady employment.

Lok Capital closed its second fund, Lok Fund II, at $65 million, the Mumbai-based impact investment-focused venture capital fund announced ...

Bangladesh Nobel laureate and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus wants to ensure that nothing comes in the way of the bank’s stability.

A day after a central bank appointed committee submitted its report, small MFIs say the recommendations if accepted would wipe away their p...

More than 70 people committed suicide in Andhra Pradesh from March 1 to November 19 to escape payments or end the agonies their debt had tr...

Private equity firms that plowed an estimated $565 million into India’s microfinance industry since 2006 may struggle to recoup their inves...

The flaws in the present microfinance model stand exposed. The next model will weave microfinance around livelihoods, and it's gaining trac...

Microfinance Institutions Network or MFIN has said commercial bank loans to the sector are drying up and borrowers are reneging on their de...

There is a myth attached to each bout of stock mkt boom. With P/E ratio moving dangerously past 20, look out for emerging myths.

Unilever has begun replicating HUL’s rural micro-enterprise, led by women-entrepreneurs, Project Shakti in several international markets.

The Raghuram Rajan Committee has made excellent recommendations to promote financial inclusion.

Guy Goves shares with ET his take on the way fresh fruit and vegetables sourcing, packaging and distribution across India is likely to unfo...

Summer 2007 doesn't give a cold shoulder to issues but isn't an exceptionally warm viewing experience either.

Robert Annibale clearly enjoys his role as a globe-trotting senior banker for US giant Citigroup, but his clients are unusual because they ...

Banks and micro-finance institutions (MFIs) are now offering credit to community-based projects like provision of clean water, common energ...

It may take us half-a-century more to figure out who nominated Mohammed Yunus and his Grameen Bank for the Nobel Peace prize. But, for the ...

The Indian economy continues to show robust growth in all sectors including industry, services and retail. With the prospects of a good mon...