In the case of pricing transparency, regulators and networks can work to shape the path for clients and MFIs by providing simple, standardized, accessible “buckets” that contain understandable information about how much credit really costs.

microDINERO: A new round of what is thought the most persistent rivalry in the microfinance industry played out at this month’s Global Microfinance Summit in Valladolid, Spain, with Mexico’s Compartamos Banco in one corner and the U.S. organization MFTransparency in the other.

Wasasa, Harbu, Metemamen, Digaf and Poverty Eradication and Community Empowerment (PEACE) are the first five microfinance institutions to participate in the Transparent Pricing Initiative in Ethiopia by submitting microloan product information and pricing data

Microfinance Focus: MFTransparency CEO Chuck Waterfield debates the role of IPOs in microfinance at the Microcredit Summit.

Microfinance Focus: In only three short years, MFTransparency has become ubiquitous in the industry. This is in part, no doubt, because its CEO Chuck Waterfield is an impressive and engaging speaker. But much more, it’s because transparency in pricing is a concept whose time has most definitely come.

In November 2011, Chuck Waterfield wrote a guest blog for GAP, entitled “A Quick Journey Through the History of Usury: Commercialization and profiting from the poor“, as part of their series on microfinance commercialization. To read this blog on the CGAP website please click here   A Quick Journey Through the History of Usury: Commercialization [...]

Durante o Forúm de Líderes Africanos para a Transparência de Preços nas Microfinanças, realizado no mês de Outubro em Nairobi, participei numa mesa redonda onde se discutia acerca da padronização da documentação do preçário dos créditos.

Many insightful questions were raised at the Rwanda data launch. This article answers many of these questions.

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to participate in the African Microfinance Pricing Transparency Leadership Forum in Nairobi, Kenya hosted by MicroFinance Transparency. This forum brought together policymakers, regulators, consumer advocacy associations, networks and industry actors from over 20 African countries.

MFTransparency’s Chuck Waterfield presented two key pieces of work at the 2011 Microcredit Summit on defining ethical pricing, and danger of IPOs to microfinance values. View these presentations here