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

The ordinance creates a new category of institution – the microfinance bank – allowing licensed operators to mobilise deposits from low-income clients while bringing them under the prudential ...

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has directed all existing Rural Banks to convert into Community Banks by March 31, 2026, as part of a ...

The government has issued the ordinance on the establishment of long-discussed microfinance banks, opening the door for microcredit institutions, startups and venture capital firms to become ...

The government is in final consultations with the ministry of Finance as analysts caution against reinventing the wheel ...

What began as a social mission to help the poor build assets and weather shocks has become a vehicle for chasing returns.

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 ...

Termed the Microcredit Bank Ordinance 2025, the new law authorises the Bangladesh Bank (BB) to issue licences for microfinance banks ...

In a move aimed at widening access to small-ticket digital financing in Pakistan, ABHI Microfinance Bank has entered into a ...

Instead of a focus to enhance household resilience, support income stability, and enable gradual asset accumulation, microfinance became integrated with the capital markets. The latter led to the ...

Bandhan Bank founder and Group Chairman Chandra Shekhar Ghosh on Monday said the Union Budget's proposal to set up a High ...

The number of successful electronic user identifications via the BankID system of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) ...