The Microfinance Process Excellence Award (MPEA) is an effort by PlaNet Finance India to reward process excellence in microfinance institutions (MFIs), establish industry benchmarks and elevate the standards of process and institutional management across MFIs in India.
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Through the Transparent Pricing Initiative in Latin America, MFTransparency will raise awareness of transparent pricing issues throughout the region, and begin to implement an enabling environment for transparency and consumer protection.
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Working on the Transparent Pricing Initiative in India is a very different experience as compared to any of MFTransparency’s other country initiatives. The microfinance market in India is unique in many ways related to outreach, products and practices that all affect pricing. In this post I will introduce you to some of the factors that give this colorful market its character.
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Yesterday the Smart Campaign published the paper “Responsible Pricing: The State of the Practice,” co-authored by MFTransparency Vice President Alexandra Fiorillo. We are proud to have contributed our research and guidance to the content of this paper, which outlines the progress of the microfinance industry toward transparent and responsible pricing.
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Our Latin America team is currently organizing an industry conference that we will host in La Paz on September 7.th At this conference we will launch the pricing data we have been collecting since May when MFTransparency and the local microfinance networks ASOFIN and FINRURAL kicked off the Transparent Pricing Initiative in Bolivia.
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What do getting an EIN number, registering with the IRS, getting a letter signed by an attorney, and creating a limited power of attorney contract have in common? If you guessed getting set up a business in the United States, you guessed wrong.
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We are seeing today the explosion of microfinance institutions in West Africa. But as I look back, I remember that it hasn’t always been this way.
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The Transparent Pricing Initiative in India, a consumer protection effort aimed at promoting transparent pricing in microfinance, launched in April 2010 with back-to-back workshops held in 5 major cities. The workshops were well-attended with participation from all corners of the microfinance industry including donors, investors, MFI practitioners, researchers, local media and officials from government and apex bodies.
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Just how difficult is it to calculate the true cost of a loan? For many clients of MFIs, it is nearly impossible. Despite the public image of microfinance lenders as being altruistic and philanthropic, some are as predatory as the moneylenders they are supposed replace as a better alternative for their clients.
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Last month MFTransparency launched the Transparent Pricing Initiative in West Africa. The launch workshops took place on July 6th in Dakar, Senegal and July 9th in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. These are the first two countries to launch the Transparent Pricing Initiative of the eight countries participating in the Transparent Pricing Initiative in West Africa.
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