How Bandhan won the banking licence

Bandhan Financial Services, the first microfinance institution in the country to win a bank licence, is also one of the youngest entities to be allowed to enter the banking space. The Reserve Bank......

Bandhan Bank's micro challenges: Unsecured loan book, CEO's tenure

It is 10 years since Bandhan Financial Services became the first microfinance institution (MFI) to receive the universal bank licence. Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters A year later, in......

FM's constituency: a mall for financial services

Farm loans at four per cent, enhancement of credit target for the sector by Rs 1 lakh crore, and a reminder to banks to focus on small and marginal agri-borrowers were some of the sops Finance......

India's Bandhan among Asia's top microfinance firms

  Bandhan, the country’s largest microfinance company, is competing closely with Bangladesh’s Nobel Prize-winning Grameen Bank to become South Asia’s largest micro credit......