This catalogue gives details of all the presentations given by MFTransparency at various industry events over the past four years. The list links to details about the events and downloadable PDFs of all presentations.
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Follow these ten easy steps to get you started in understanding and applying transparent pricing. Support the industry’s continued advance on the development of responsible microfinance by endorsing and promoting pricing transparency.
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This paper proposes that there is a moral obligation for the microfinance industry to address the challenge of defining ethical and responsible practice, and within that the issue of fair and ethical pricing.
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MicroFinance Transparency is an international non-governmental organization that promotes transparency by facilitating microfinance pricing disclosure, offering policy advisory services and developing training and education materials for all market stakeholders. This two page briefing gives an overview of MFTransparency’s core components.
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This briefing lists of policies that MFTransparency believes can be implemented to help create an enabling environment for pricing transparency in microfinance, including their strengths and weaknesses. The briefing also contains a matrix specifying the countries that maintain Truth-in-Lending legislation.
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Since 2001, the use of the flat interest rate calculation method on microfinance loan products has been prohibited in Cambodia through the National Bank of Cambodia‘s Prakas on the Calculation of Interest Rate on Microfinance Loans. MFTransparency highlights the Prakas as a simple but effective pricing disclosure policy solution.
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Outlining the metrics used to calculate pricing, this brief presents MFTransparency’s interest rate formulas, including calculating one period interest rate, calculating APR, calculating EIR, and the XIRR calculation.
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This briefing outlines the evolution of non‐transparent pricing, the dynamics underlying pricing in microfinance and the movement for transparency.
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This is a collection of quotes reflecting the reactions of participants in the Bolivia and Ecuador Data Launch Conferences to the new possibilities of transparent pricing in microfinance.
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This Resources Guide is a compilation of information about the products and services offered by different organizations in the microfinance industry to policymakers and regulators of African microfinance markets. It was compiled as part of the African Microfinance Pricing Transparency Leadership Forum.
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