On February 28th 2011 MFTransparencypresented to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) the results of the Transparent Pricing Initiative in India. View these presentations here.

The MIX: Thanks to the support of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX), the industry’s leading source for financial and social performance data, now offers funders and other stakeholders easy access to social performance information in conjunction with financial performance information.

On February 25th 2011 MFTransparency launched the results of the Transparent Pricing Initiative in India, presented sessions explaining how to interpret the data and what the future holds for microfinance pricing. View the presentations here

On February 25, 2011 MFTransparency launched the Transparent Pricing Initiative in Ghana with a workshop in Accra. Topics covered included the importance and implantation of pricing transparency. View the presentations here.

Microfinance Africa: MFTransparency and the Grameen Crédit Agricole Microfinance Foundation have partnered to host the West African Transparent Pricing Workshop on Thursday, March 3rd in Dakar, Senegal. This groundbreaking event will bring together microfinance practitioners, networks, government officials and regulators for a one-day training workshop to promote pricing transparency standards followed by a half-day conference on current topics in West African microfinance markets.

MFTransparency and the Grameen Crédit Agricole Microfinance Foundation have partnered to host the West African Transparent Pricing Workshop on Thursday, March 3rd in Dakar, Senegal.

On Friday, February 25, 2011 MFTransparency and the Ghana Microfinance Institutions Network (GHAMFIN) will co-host a workshop in Accra, Ghana to launch the Transparent Pricing Initiative in Ghana, the third country in the MasterCard Foundation-funded enabling APR & EIR Program.

Micro Enterprise Development Uganda (MedNet), Kacita and Y-Save are the first microfinance institutions to participate in the Transparent Pricing Initiative in Uganda by submitting microloan product information and pricing data.

Microfinance Focus: MFTransparency will launch the ‘India Data Launch Conference’ in Mumbai on February 25, 2011. The conference will be the formal launch event for the newly published India market data, currently available on the MFTransparency website.

MFTransparency would like to invite all stakeholders of the Indian microfinance industry to the India Data Launch Conference in Mumbai on February 25. This conference will be the formal launch event for the newly published India market data, currently available on the MFTransparency website (www.mftransparency.org).