According to a report by Sapien Labs, the growth of smartphone use and an increase in social isolation point to a decline in the mental hea...

The transaction is subject to the approval of Reserve Bank of India, the Securities and Exchange Board of India and other regulators.

Sources said that Madura had a few other suitors including a mid-sized MFI.

Madura Microfinance was founded by late banker-turned-entrepreneur KM Thiagarajan and is now run by his non-resident Indian, neuro scientis...

The deal is expected to be partly in share-swap, and partly in cash for the micro lender backed by private equity firm Elevar Equity Maurit...

One study estimates that 46% of these failures are due to incompetence that stems from poor planning, lack of record keeping, little knowle...

Ramanathan, who is curating this series on making markets work for the poor, speaks to ET about the need for a sustained debate on whether ...

Small may be beautiful, but it is also limiting. Truly effective markets will enable micro enterprises to thrive and set them on the path t...

There is need to organise poor primary producers and aggregate their small surpluses to make them efficient. Promoting social businesses is...

Poverty is concentrated in the informal sectors of the Indian economy, with people in these occupations amongst the worst affected.

Madura Micro Finance to scale operations via new initiatives motivating more women to join the stream through a feature film based on the t...

There is no dearth of entrepreneurship in the country given its vast human capital and talented minds. In fact, the robust growth, which In...