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.
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India Microfinance Business News: MicroFinance Transparency has completed an analysis of microloan pricing in India and has made the results available on it’s website.
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Darashaw: Amid the hue and cry following the Andhra crisis that has been defined by many analysts and commentators as a “mid-life crisis”, MFTransparency, in collaboration with Citi Foundation, MFIN, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and Standard Chartered has come out with the India Pricing Data Report.
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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.
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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.
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New York Times: “We at microfinance have a job to do to make it easier for politicians to support us,” said Alex Counts, the chief executive of the Grameen Foundation. “Rather than make claims that get out in front of the research, we need to impose on ourselves the discipline of transparency about poverty reduction.”
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The East African: The following articles have been published about the launch of MFTransparency’s Transparent Pricing Initiative in Rwanda.
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Microfinance Focus: Regulation should consider setting limits on extent of private ownership, limits of profits (in terms of ROE and ROA), restriction on accessing capital markets for equity in the initial years (say 7 years) and limits on executive remuneration. The transparency in disclosure could be implemented through organizations such as MicroFinance Transparency which is working on pricing transparency in the country.
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Microfinance Gateway: Over the past year, the microfinance industry has made real progress toward transparent pricing, translating our stated commitment to responsible practice into action. MicroFinance Transparency is excited to share accomplishments through the first MicroFinance Transparency Newsletter.
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Digital Development Debates: Microfinance, originally a donor-funded innovation of the non-profit world, now more often makes headlines for its movement towards commercialization. As the debate about profit and social responsibility heats up, the importance of pricing transparency is growing increasingly apparent.
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