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  • Learning the Client Perspective on Pricing: Insights from the Field

    Published on October 21, 2011

    MFTransparency’s financial education team in Rwanda has been learning a lot about the client perspective as we complete the first phase of our financial education pilot program. Through interviews and focus groups, we are learning directly from clients about the experience of making borrowing decisions based on price, and learning about what approaches to education are effective and which may be less effective.

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    Category: MFTransparency Blog
    Tags: Financial Education
  • Improving Microfinance Together

    Published on October 20, 2011

    FINCA: A new Microfinance CEO Working Group has been formed to promote strong consumer protection, meaningful transparency and development of industry standards of social performance management and measurement. The group supports MFTransparency as a critical component of this work.

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    Category: External Media
    Tags: Pricing Initiative, Responsible Finance
  • Policymakers Collaborate for Transparency in Africa

    Published on October 10, 2011

    Center for Financial Inclusion Blog: Last week, MFTransparency hosted the first “African Microfinance Pricing Transparency Leadership Forum” in Nairobi. The meeting was one of the more unique and encouraging microfinance events I’ve ever attended.

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    Category: External Media
    Tags: MFT Event, Pricing Initiative
  • Transparent microfinance pricing in Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Published on October 4, 2011

    Microfinance Focus: MFTransparency, in a paper ‘Standardized Loan Documentation in Bosnia and Herzegovina’, states that the policy framework for pricing disclosure in the microfinance markets of these countries provides the industry with numerous mechanisms for facilitating transparent pricing.

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    Category: External Media
    Tags: Loan Documentation
  • Rwanda Data Launch Webinar: Register Now

    Published on September 16, 2011

    On September 27, 2011 MFTransparency will host a webinar to launch the transparent microloan pricing data collected in the Transparent Pricing Initiative in Rwanda.

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    Countries: Rwanda
    Category: Announcements
    Tags: MFT Event, Pricing Initiative
  • Financial Education: From Rwanda to Russia

    Published on September 16, 2011

    MFTransparency’s Financial Education Program is focused on developing a set of financial education materials addressing clients’ ability to make decisions about borrowing based on the prices of microloans.

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    Category: MFTransparency Blog
    Tags: Financial Education