Following is the trascriptof President Pratibha Patil's address to the joint sittingof Parliament on Thursday.Honourable Members, I convey my good wishes to you and to all our people. On behalf of......
Life seems to have turned a full circle for some professionals in the microfinance industry of Andhra Pradesh, but with tragic consequences.About a year and a half back, microfinance institutions......
Experts have said stress building in rural areas due to deficient rains may hit the repayment capacity of borrowers and, in turn, affect MFIs.After a controversy over their debt-collection tactics,......
The Reserve Bank of India has capped interest rates charged by micro finance institutions from small borrowers at 26 per cent, but opened for MFIs the bank credit line which was curtailed following......
A slew of private sector schemes tap the small savings of the informal sector to provide pension cover to the old who are not covered by any government scheme.The winter's tale in the life of an......
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......