Shares of microfinance-linked lenders fell sharply after Bihar passed a bill tightening regulations on MFIs. While the move may have limite...

A recent CRIF High Mark report reveals a mixed bag for India's microfinance sector. While early-stage delinquencies have slightly improved,...

Going forward the larger, the bigger picture is while the liquidity has been strong in the system, and we are in a downward interest rate r...

Equitas Small Finance Bank’s Q4 profit fell 80% YoY to Rs 42 crore due to higher credit costs and muted earnings. While microfinance slippa...

India's microfinance sector is facing a severe crisis as delinquency rates have surged, with gross NPAs reaching 16% in FY25. This rise has...

The Karnataka legislature's first session of the new year, beginning Monday, is expected to be contentious due to internal divisions in bot...

The Karnataka government plans to enact tougher laws to control microfinance companies amid reports of loan recovery agent harassment leadi...

India’s largest small finance bank has recently bulked up and is now looking to utilise its heft to increase its presence in MSME lending. ...

Unlike the earlier definition that distinguished between rural and urban, RBI has now set a common household limit of Rs 300,000 for loans ...

Institutional lenders, microfinance companies, public utilities and even chit funds are staring at deficit collections with each passing mo...

Cash continues to be the preferred mode of payments… more so in rural India. This may be because digital payments have not reached smaller ...

Demonetisation had slowed the disbursement momentum of micro finance companies, simultaneously raising the spectre of more delinquencies.

With assisted commerce, a startup named StoreKing is mutating the rural credit model and helping villagers survive on a mix of cash and cre...

Of the Rs 30,000 crore MFIs have borrowed from the banking system till date, this is perhaps the most precious Rs 100 crore ever.

Financial inclusion is the new buzzword. With RBI charting the path to the unbanked hinterland, private stakeholders, including tech-driven...

Inflation is not necessarily a bad word. So it seems for the micro-credit industry if its growth trajectory and first quarter credit offtak...

Amid the Diwali shoppers’ frenzy, two developments - one local and the other global - largely went unnoticed.