MFT summarizes our progress as an industry and invites investors and networks to take on the task of future data collection.
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MFTransparency’s Excel-based tool that can be used to analyze the cost of a particular loan product, helping the users understand how various factors influence the total cost of a loan and enabling cost comparisons between loans with different fee structures.
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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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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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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 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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One of MFTransparency‘s most important forms of support are its endorsers. These are individuals and organizations who have given their written commitment to MFTransparency’s mission. The MFTransparency’s endorser form can be found here.
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This compilation of quotes offers a variety of perspectives on transparency in microfinance from a range of industry actors including policy analysts, funders, journalists, microfinance institutions and networks, microfinance industry support organizations, legal advisors and academics.
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This document gives a brief outline of why the microfinance industry needs standards for disclosure, how non-transparent pricing in microfinance has evolved, and what the process is for implementing pricing transparency.
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