A rise in commercialisation of microfinance activities calls for a regulatory framework in the sector to benefit all stakeholders, experts said yesterday. They said self-regulation by individual ...

Almost to mark 10 years of the Malegam Committee Report of 2011 that helped establish micro- finance as a legitimate asset class, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released its Consultative Document on ...

The microfinance sector got the attention that was due to it from RBI recently, with the proposed regulations for the sector. The suggested framework aims to protect customers by looking at all ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on June 14 released a consultative document on uniform regulation for companies engaged in microfinance business. The document aims at harmonising the regulatory ...

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of Bangladesh-based Grameen Bank, recently challenged Maharashtra, one of India’s most industrialized states, to compete with his homeland in the effort to end ...

RBI’s consultative document on ‘Regulation of Microfinance’ dated June 14, 2021 seems to break ground by shifting from “Legal Structure based” regulations to “Activity based” regulations . The extant ...

It is quite fascinating to read the book titled “Microfinance Regulations for Development -- Global Experiences”, edited by Rushidan Islam Rahman and Lila Rashid. It is essentially a compilation of ...

The recent developments in the Indian microfinance sector, particularly in Andhra Pradesh (AP), have been disconcerting. Within a relatively short period, a sector heralded as representing a ...