Archives for Microfinance
State Bank revises regulations for microfinance banks
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday revised a range of regulations for microfinance banks such as up-scaling maximum loan sizes upto Rs350,000 for general loans and Rs3,000,000 for…
Micro-loan program gets expanded for local small businesses
The city of Ontario was awarded $135,000 of additional funds from Business Oregon to aid in the support of small businesses according to a news release from the office of…
Ghana’s Microfinance’s Biggest Challenges: Any Hope For The Future?
The Ghanaian microfinance sector has had its fair share of challenges in recent times- challenges that seem to have lacerated its existing wounds and has hence, unfortunately, incited some loss…
Microfinance loans could spell disaster in the time of coronavirus
When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus in 2006 for his concept of microfinance, it brought what began as a local policy experiment in the…
Online Islamic Microfinance two day’s Training
AlHuda CIBE is pleased to launch two days e-Training on “Practical Aspects of Islamic Microfinance” on August 26-27, 2020. For more information For Registration please contact at:
‘Govt needs to support microfinance banks to serve as growth catalyst’
Microfinance is supposed to drive the growth of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), but that is just one side of the story. If somebody is going to drive the growth…
Cambodia: Micro-Loan Borrowers Face Covid-19 Crisis
Debt relief measures by micro-loan providers in Cambodia are failing to alleviate the serious financial burdens on indebted families affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, Human Rights Watch said today. Indebted families risk…
SBP extends Covid-19 mitigation measures till December
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has extended a number of measures taken to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 from their original deadline of June 30 and September 30, to…
Can microfinance survive Covid?
Even before coronavirus came, Pakistan’s microfinance sector was sniffling. Amid macroeconomic stabilization, repayment capacity of borrowers, and in turn, industry profitability of over three dozen microfinance providers was constrained due…
Covid-19 threatens viability of microfinance sector
THE credit-only microfinance sector says its operations are being threatened by the outbreak of Covid-19 despite registering a 23,7 percent growth in total loan book to $469,2 million in the…