Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hailed a woman entrepreneur from Assam, who mobilised 3,000 people to form self help groups (SHGs)...

e-NAM is a pan-India electronic trading portal which networks the existing APMC mandis to create a unified national market for agricultural...

Millions of rural poor borrowers in the state are running the risk of losing access to formal credit.

In an interview with ET Now, Mathew Titus, Executive Director, Sa–Dhan, talks about MFI funding. Excerpts:

At the outset, it is worthwhile noting some factual statements in RBI reports in regard to micro finance activities.

Andhra Pradesh plans to set up a non-banking finance company (NBFC) to lend at subsidised rates to self-help groups (SHGs).

Unlike his three immediate predecessors, the new chairman of National Bank for Agriculture & Rural Development (Nabard) has an advantage.

He is assuming charge at a difficult time. Nabard was set up to ensure credit flows for agriculture and rural development.

MFIs will find it easier to obtain bank loans if they cap their interest to borrowers at 26%.The overall size of the industry is about Rs 2...

India compares poorly with OECD as well as many of its Asian peer group countries with respect to financial inclusion, the Reserve Bank tod...

What’s perhaps worrying the regulator and some of the stakeholders is that the MFIs are still being run like small family-owned firms.

In yet another bid to channel institutional credit to the country’s vulnerable sections -- Nabard has just unveiled a financial assistance ...

The Left Front government in West Bengal has decided to engage a multinational consultant for its newly-formed marketing corporation -- an ...

Banks operating in West Bengal have provided a fresh loan of Rs 175.5 crore to local self help groups (SHG), taking the total outstanding S...

C Rangarajan, chairman of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (EAC), has said that microfinance institutions should be recognised as...

Public sector banks (PSBs) have missed their priority sector lending target as a group, although marginally, after many years.

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) is likely to get powers to regulate microfinance institutions (MFIs) in th...