Why would an MFI need an Appreciative Inquiry process?
“In 5 years, our village would have metal roads, hospitals and old-age homes to take care of the poor, the poor women who work for others now would become employers, giving employment opportunities to many other under-privileged people.
First Private Wealth Investment in Microfinance Securitisation
IFMR Capital closed its eighth microloan securitisation transaction this week, an INR 370 mn multi-originator securitisation with Delhi-based MFI Satin Creditcare, Rajasthan-based Sahayata Microfinance and Tamil Nadu MFI, Asirvad.
Stamps, savings, microloans and more…
India Post through the decades has been an institution that has permeated the length and breadth of the country through its 155,000 branches.
The Fundamental Premise of Securitisation: The Microfinance Case Study
In a recent post, Daniel Rozas and Vinod Kothari have argued that microfinance securitisation does not, in reality, separate ‘pool risk’ from ‘originator risk’ and hence should not be rated very differently from the originator of the portfolio.
Unearthing the real issues in microfinance: Quality
Sucharita Mukherjee and Kirthi Rao talk about the importance of quality of underwriting standards in microfinance institutions. This is the first in a series of articles by the authors on the topic “Unearthing the real issues in microfinance”.
Bringing mutual funds and small MFIs together
What does it take to make a mutual fund invest in small MFIs? The one team that would be able to answer this question would be the IFMR Capital MOSEC team that has just concluded the second multi-originator microloan securitization.
Thoughts from the Chicago Microfinance Conference
On May 7th 2010, the University of Chicago and Northwestern University hosted the sixth annual Chicago Microfinance Conference.
Workshop on Microfinance and Rural Development
At a recent workshop on “Microfinance and Rural Development” held at Ramjas College, Delhi, Nitin Chaudhary from IFMR Rural Finance had the opportunity to chair one of the sessions that was attended by students of Ramjas College and St. Stephen’s College.
MicroSave: CEO Workshop
MicroSave, a key player in the area of market-led microfinance, recently conducted a ‘CEO Workshop’ on the theme of “Responding to Competitive Microfinance Markets”.
Capital at the ACCESS ‘Investor Readiness Workshop’
On the 8th and 9th of February 2010, Access Microfinance Alliance (AmFA), one of the largest small MFI networks in India, organized ‘ACCESS INVEST’, an investor readiness workshop for its members.
