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  • Microfinance industry is shifting its agenda to social performance

    Published on May 24, 2010

    Governance Now: Microfinance in India still has considerable geographical divide. The southern states have done well in terms of taking microfinance initiatives as well as in uptake. On the other hand, it’s still taking time for microfinance to pick up in northern states.

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    Category: External Media
    Tags: Consumer Protection, Responsible Finance
  • In Ecuador, Cap on Interest Rates Pressures Microlenders to Increase Loan Sizes

    Published on May 19, 2010

    MicroCapital: Ecuador’s central bank, Banco Central del Ecuador (BCE), recently further reduced the cap on annual interest rates to 30.5 percent from 33.9 percent for retail microlenders, and to 27.5 percent from 33.3 percent for all others lenders. Since 2007, when the national government enacted banking reforms allowing the central bank to set a maximum interest rate for all banking institutions, the cap for microlenders has been dropping.

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    Countries: Ecuador
    Category: External Media
    Tags: Consumer Protection, Responsible Finance, Understanding Prices
  • Obama Calls Out Microfinance: Taking the Measure of Microfinance

    Published on April 26, 2010

    MicroCredit Enterprises: As the need for Microfinance Transparency (backed by many microfinance leaders) demonstrates, the microfinance industry has been less than honest with the donors and investors who back it, not to mention its impoverished client-borrowers. True APR loan interest rates charged by overseas microfinance institutions remain undisclosed in most parts of the world.

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    Category: External Media
    Tags: Consumer Protection, Responsible Finance
  • Lender to women joins global policing group

    Published on April 26, 2010

    Daily Nation: The short rains which stated in earnest in December and the current long rain season has been a nightmare for many dairy farmers in the country.

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    Category: External Media
    Tags: Consumer Protection, Responsible Finance, Understanding Prices
  • Many Borrowers of Microloans Now Find the Price is Too High

    Published on April 25, 2010

    New York Times: Drawn by the prospect of hefty profits from even the smallest of loans, a raft of banks and financial institutions now dominate the field, with some charging interest rates of 100 percent or more.

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    Category: External Media
    Tags: Consumer Protection, Responsible Finance, Understanding Prices
  • Exclusive Interview with MFTransparency executives Chuck Waterfield and Alexandra Fiorillo

    Published on April 16, 2010

    Microfinance Insights: MicroFinance Transparency Urges Indian MFIs to Share Pricing, Interest Rate Data. Microfinance Transparency is currently on a whistle-stop tour of India to speak with MFIs and industry stakeholders, as part of their worldwide Transparent Pricing Initiative, which urges MFIs to share their pricing and interest data to improve transparency and bring credibility to the sector. Microfinance Insights caught up with MFTransparency executives Chuck Waterfield and Alexandra Fiorillo, to speak with them about their experience in India so far.

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    Countries: India
    Category: External Media
    Tags: Consumer Protection, MFT Event, Pricing Initiative, Understanding Prices
  • MFTransparency launches Transparent Pricing Initiative for Microfinance in India

    Published on April 12, 2010

    Microfinance Focus: Identifying Transparent Pricing as the emerging challenge for the microfinance industry world over, MFTransparency.org, a US based non-profit has launched its Transparent Pricing Initiative in India with 5 seminars across the country, in New Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai during April 12-19, 2010.

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    Countries: India
    Category: External Media
    Tags: Consumer Protection, Data Collection, MFT Event, Pricing Initiative, Responsible Finance
  • MFInsights: A Conversation with Chuck Waterfield, CEO and President, MFTransparency

    Published on April 1, 2010

    Microfinance Insights: As the microfinance sector picks up pace in improving industry practices, MFTransparency, a US-based nonprofit is working with microfinance institutions (MFIs) around the world to shed light on what has remained a dark and opaque corner of the microfinance business – the interest rates MFIs charge their clients.

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    Category: External Media
    Tags: Consumer Protection, Responsible Finance, Understanding Prices
  • Indian NBFCs Microfinance Network MFIN to assess their transparency level, sources

    Published on February 22, 2010

    Microfinance Focus: Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN), a newly formed body of NBFC-MFIs in India has decided to carry out an in-depth study of the status and level of transparency in its network members and suggest measures to improve the situation, if required, said sources in the industry.

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    Countries: India
    Category: External Media
    Tags: Consumer Protection, Responsible Finance, Understanding Prices
  • State of the Campaign Report

    Published on January 28, 2010

    Microcredit Summit Campaign report: The 2009 State of the Campaign Report contains an article on Pricing Transparency written by MFTransparency. See p. 15 of the report. The link gives access to a website where the entire report can be dowloaded in English, Spanish, and French.

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    Category: External Media
    Tags: Consumer Protection, Responsible Finance