For the past three seemingly glorious years, the 30-year-old boy wonder Sam Bankman-Fried, or SBF, crowned the “King of Crypto,” bore an uncanny resemblance to the legendary character Robin Hood.

Investor sentiment, too, has cooled. According to the report, MFIs have witnessed reduced support from external stakeholders, ...

The growing digitisation helped the country’s microfinance industry grow over 16 times in the last decade, and this presents an opportunity for the fintech players Fintech startups have the capability ...

The board of the Grameen Bank is meeting today in Dhaka to decide the future of its founder, Muhammad Yunus. Revered as one of the founders of microfinance, Yunus won a Nobel Prize in 2006 for his ...

While Bangladesh’s new “caretaker,” Muhammad Yunus, has been widely recognized for pioneering the field of microfinance, mainstream economics has largely dismissed insights from this development model ...

KUWAIT, Sept 5 (KUNA) -- Islamic Microfinance is a viable means to curb poverty, a specialized report by Kuwait Finance House (KFH) said Wednesday Addressing poverty continues to be one of the ...

Insurtech players are upbeat because new-age insurance providers, such as micro-insurers, are a lot more likely to invest in digitisation, which will make customer on-boarding much easier IRDAI’s ...

Spark+ Africa Fund granted $6.4 million in impact financing to Baobab Group Côte d’Ivoire, the country’s largest microfinance institution, to scale lending for clean cooking and LPG solutions. The ...

Prime Minister of Djibouti Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed has sought advice from Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on microfinance and expressed keen interest in adopting microfinance strategies in ...