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 ...

Microfinancing originated as a means to grant small loans, savings accounts and insurance to persons in developing countries to help them launch small businesses or engage in other economic activities ...

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, ...

Microfinance is the delivery of financial services in small amounts – mainly loans but increasingly savings and insurance – to entrepreneurs who typically do not have access to mainstream or ...

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. In ...

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 ...

ONE of the main focus of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit is the growth of the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as part of its thrust for inclusive growth. Increase in GDP will ...

Blandino Esplana , 71, pushes his mobile palengke in Vitas-Katuparan, Tondo, Manila. He spends P2,000 to buy vegetables in Divisoria. On a normal day, he earns double if he sells at a higher price, ...

NICO Carridice, co-founder and CEO of financial technology company Tarpa Corporation Limited, is calling on microfinancing institutions (MFIs) to “get in line” and prepare to become licensed and ...

The Jamaica Microfinancing Association (JaMFA) is preparing for its annual national conference scheduled for Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston on Wednesday, December 12. Keynote speakers at the ...