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 ...

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, ...

That is, microfinancing can lead to high rates of interest and debt traps. Microfinance’s interest rates are considerably higher than those of mainstream banks. At the global level, microfinance’s ...

Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Kenya on new efforts to help poor residents of Nairobi's crowded, unsanitary slums find adequate housing through entrepreneurship and microfinancing.

That microfinancing is good for the emancipation of women and poverty alleviation in developing countries is true says Dutch-sponsored researcher Alfred Lakwo, but only in part. Lakwo travelled ...

Koh Taradash and other leads for the Pinewood Microfinancing Program have loaned over $1,000 to entrepreneurs abroad. Courtesy Koh Taradash. Pinewood School junior Koh Taradash first learned about ...

Microfinancing Partners in Africa is hosting an Annual Gala at the River City Casino on April 13. The funds that are raised will go directly to the programs MPA manages and to support African ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Batang Quiapo party-list has vowed to help intensify microfinancing for business if it wins a seat in the May 12 midterm elections. Zofia Canlas, a nominee of Batang ...