After two years of stress, micro-lenders tightened credit and reduced high-risk multiple borrowing, while repayment ...

Small finance banks’ profitability is expected to recover in FY2027, with return on assets projected to rise to 1.3–1.5% as ...

The most recent crisis to hit microfinance began in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh, where allegations of widespread over-indebtedness, heavy-handed collection tactics and borrower suicides ...

Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on Wednesday urged the microfinance sector to shift towards cashflow-based lending and ...

Microfinance claims to have a “double bottom line.” Lending to poor populations in developing countries needs to be profitable to be sustainable, while social impact in terms of achieving “financial ...

Micro-lenders in India are emerging from one of their toughest downturns in years. But the recovery reveals that the ...

Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran highlights crucial need for India's microfinance sector to prioritize savings and insurance over credit to prevent crises caused by excessive lending and ...

Finance minister calls for greater use of alternative data and digital credit scoring to expand financing for SMEs and ...