MFTransparency’s work is founded on the principle that data must be accompanied by education and descriptive information. To maximize the value for users of the India pricing dataset, we have prepared an in-depth analytical report.

African Microfinance Transparency: In this African Microfinance Transparency (AMT) year-end review, “2010 in a Nutshell”, all AMT members from 20 different countries are encouraged to submit their data to MFTransparency’s Transparent Pricing Initiative.

In January 2011 MFTransparency presented at the Responsible Finance Forum. This event saw the launch of the Principles for Investors in Inclusive Finance. View the presentation here.

MFTransparency’s Transparent Pricing Initiative in Colombia is meeting with great success, 22 MFIs having already submitted their data and 4 more currently underway with the data collection process.

In today’s blog post, I’d like to share some insights into the pricing data we launched at our industry conference in La Paz. Our current dataset includes all members of the local microfinance networks ASOFIN and FINRURAL, as well as all but one of the MFIs reporting to the MIX.

Thanks to the overwhelming support from MFIs and stakeholders of the Bolivian microfinance community, we reached a major milestone last month: We launched MFTransparency’s brand new pricing data for the Bolivian microfinance sector, featuring 100% of ASOFIN and FINRURAL membership participation.

allAfrica: MicroFinance Transparency (MFTransparency) will expand the Transparent Pricing Initiative in West Africa to Togo and Benin this month with a workshop in Lome on January 18 and Cotonou on January 25, 2011.

Some exciting recent accomplishments of MFTransparency’s Latin America team are the data launch conferences we recently hosted in Ecuador and Bolivia. In this blog post, I’d like to share a summary of the Ecuador conference which took place in Quito on November 30.

MFTransparency will expand the Transparent Pricing Initiative in West Africa to Togo and Benin this month with a workshop in Lome on January 18 and Cotonou on January 25.

MFTransparency will be in attendance at the Microfinance Responsible Finance Forum to be held in The Hague, Netherlands, on January 27. For those planning to attend, we look forward to seeing you there.