Global Microfinance Market size was valued at USD 235.21 Billion in 2025 and is projected to grow at a robust CAGR of 12.5% from 2025 to 2032, reaching approximately USD 536.45 Billion by 2032.

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus this month may provide a lift to the already rapidly growing field of microfinance, and bring financial services to a ...

Economic Survey 2025-26 urges linking microfinance investor exits to social impact metrics, warning that return-driven growth risks over-lending, borrower stress, and financial instability ...

The surge in unregulated and predatory microfinance practices has made many individuals at the grassroots level vulnerable to ...

For Saccos and microfinance institutions, accreditation has provided a pathway into the formal credit reporting ecosystem, ...

Veena Mankar, a banker in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India, looked at the slums in her city and wondered why needy people in urban areas could not benefit from the same access to loans and other ...

When the rich suffer, so do the poor. Or so goes the trickle-down theory. It turns out, though, that the spreading of global financial pain is far from simple. The microfinance industry, for instance, ...

From the second quarter of 2026, credit unions with asset holdings of GH¢60 million or more will fall directly under the supervision of the Bank of Ghana. Smaller cooperatives and susu operators will ...

As India’s microfinance sector stands at a critical inflection point, Karnataka has emerged as a beacon of resilience with ...