That is, until she discovered Grameen Bank, one of the first microfinance institutions (MFIs), which set up shop in rural Bangladesh in the wake of the 1976 famine. In 1979, Grameen made Mufiya a ...

Grameen Bank, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, earned its celebrated reputation by helping poor women in Bangladesh become entrepreneurs. Through microfinance loans — small amounts of capital ...

Bank Andara was created by an investor group led by Mercy Corps to form a wholesale bank that would provide a range of banking products and services for microfinance institutions in Indonesia, ...

Women, as it turns out, are an excellent risk. Worldwide, microfinance loans serve almost 20 million people living in poverty. 74% of these clients are women. At the Grameen Bank, the world’s largest ...

(Reuters) -Shares of IDFC First Bank fell as much as 8% on Monday to their lowest in 21 months after the private lender said its third-quarter profit more than halved, hurt by delinquencies in ...