The microfinance textbook doesn’t have much to say about state regulatory capacity. The idea that small loans to very poor people is effective in pulling them out of poverty is so simple and appealing ...

Restructuring the country’s microfinance architecture will gather pace this year, Governor of Bank of Ghana Dr. Johnson Pandit Asiama has insisted, urging commercial banks to scale up export finance ...

NEW DELHI, May 10 (Reuters) - The Indian cabinet has approved a bill aimed to bring microlenders under the central bank's oversight, a minister, who declined to be named as the parliament is in ...

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) across East Africa have been warned that they face growing exposure to financial crime and mounting regulatory pressure even as artificial intelligence (AI) opens new ...

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