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MicroRate Media:

“Banks Making Big Profits From Tiny Loans” New York Times- MicroRate’s founder and chairman was featured on April 13, 2010 in the New York Times.  Click here to read the article.

View the following microfinance news sources for the most up-to-date news available on the sector:


Microfinance Gateway

  1. "A Friend Indeed": Evaluation of an Insurance Education Radio Campaign in Kenya
  2. Formalizing the Informal Insurance Inherent in Migration: Exploring the Potential Links between Migration, Remittances and Microinsurance
  3. Global Standard Setting Bodies and Financial Inclusion: Insights and Lessons from Five countries: Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, the Philippines and South Africa
  4. Opportunities for Insurance Inclusion in Nigeria
  5. Social & Political Perspectives on Microfinance: Sierra Leone

Microfinance Focus

  1. "Glass Half Full?" MicroSave Releases New Assessment of Branchless Banking in India
  2. China’s soaring microfinance sector
  3. FirstBank of Nigeria partners mobile money service providers
  4. IFC may lend $5 million to Honduran MFI
  5. Micro EYE launched to map microfinance markets in Pakistan

MicroCapital Monitor

  1. MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Tightens CAMELS, Other Requirements for Banks Offering Agricultural Microfinance Loans in the Philippines
  2. MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Lacking Credit Bureau, Zimbabwean Microfinance Struggles With Consumer Protection
  3. MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Microfinance Assets in Rwanda Grow 12.1% to $78.6m
  4. MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Zantel Tanzania Rebrands Mobile Cash Service Z-Pesa as Ezy Pesa, Adds Salary Access Option, Microinsurance, Linkage to CRDB Bank Accounts
  5. MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Lends $3.6m to Amret, AMK, Prasac, Hattha Kaksekar of Cambodia