Default ratio in micro loans increased in Karnataka following the promulgation of an Ordinance to regulate microfinance activities, as repo...

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

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has announced the state's decision to amend existing money lending laws and introduce new legislation...

The decision comes at a time when Indian authorities are probing the local unit of the Chinese smartphone company for alleged violation of ...

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

Leading Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) are much bigger than most of the SFBs even today, according to a note by Soumya Kanti Ghosh, the group ...

In an exclusive interview with ET’s Atmadip Ray, Ghosh said that with improving loan recovery, the bank’s profitability would increase beca...

It is important to adopt gender parity, keep records and train staff and build capabilities within the staff to understand the segment of w...

Lenders are now reacting the typical way — slowing down loan disbursement in the pockets of trouble.

The issue of over-indebtedness came back to haunt the industry exactly a decade after the controversial Andhra Pradesh Microfinance Institu...

Microfinance is showing early signs of loans going bad en masse. And the problem is complicated by aggressive strategies of larger lenders.

Sa-Dhan, an association of microfinance institutions, in its report said Karnataka, Bihar, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha were the t...

Motilal Oswal predicts 44% profit growth for Bajaj Finance.

Indian markets are likely to trade in a range. Here is a list of ten stocks which are likely to be in focus in trade today.

Uttar Pradesh seems to be the new Mecca for microfinance, with Andhra Pradesh having abdicated that role thanks to a tough law in 2010.

To blame rising farmer suicides on factors such as indebtedness and liberalisation misses a major part of the story, but ad hoc solutions o...

The quest for fast growth has landed india’s microfinance institutions in the soup. ET’s M Rajshekhar decodes the crisis and looks at the w...