Once just a ride-sharing company, Grab has been expanding its portfolio to include mobile and peer-to-peer payments and now has added insurance and microfinancing services to the mix. The Southeast ...

Tiny loans to poor people were seen as a path to prosperity, but they haven’t improved most borrowers’ economic situation.

Svatantra Microfin has reached an agreement to acquire Navi Group's microfinancing unit Chaitanya India for about $178.5 million, the two firms said Tuesday, latest in a series of events at ...

Venture capital may be the hot, sexy funding route that helps a few businesses and grabs a lot of headlines every year. But it turns out another type of funding works out better for most entrepreneurs ...

This field, known as “microfinance,” has recently become immensely popular, inspiring similar movements across the nation. In 2009, New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof famously said, ...

The government has allocated RM9.8 billion in financing funds through six major institutions to expand and simplify access to microcredit for hawkers and small entrepreneurs nationwide, said Deputy ...

The idea of microfinancing -- small-scale loans to the entrepreneurial-minded poor -- reached the front page this fall when the Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the Nobel ...

MANILA, Philippines — The existence of microfinancing institutions provides a financing system for poor communities to establish small and social enterprises or finance the basic needs of their ...

Agrobank President and Group Chief Executive Officer Datuk Tengku Ahmad Badli Shah Raja Hussin said that of the total, Agrobank recorded new microfinancing applications worth RM2.1 million through a ...

Svatantra Microfin has reached an agreement to acquire Navi Group’s microfinancing unit Chaitanya India for about $178.5 million, the two firms said Tuesday, latest in a series of events at ...