The MicrofinanceTraPS Handbook provides policy recommendations on pricing transparency issues . Click here to download this important new industry reference.
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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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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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This resource provides an overview of some of the potential roles participants of the MFTransparency African Microfinance Transparent Pricing Leadership Forum discussed for different stakeholder groups in the microfinance industry, as well as the relationships between them, in terms of facilitating transparent pricing.
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Training sessions given by MFTransparency at the African Microfinance Pricing Transparency Leadership Forum launched an ongoing debate among participants about what an official pricing disclosure formula should include. This resource provides insights from this debate, highlighting the most essential issues to be addressed to establish widespread agreement on this critical element of pricing disclosure policy.
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Client financial education was one of three core themes discussed at the African Microfinance Pricing Transparency Leadership Forum. This resource frames the discussion of client financial education, and extract insights on some of the most complex questions raised about this cornerstone of transparency.
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This resource presents some of the main challenges, questions and solutions arising from MFTransparency’s African Microfinance Pricing Transparency Leadership Forum, centered around three core themes: pricing calculation, standards for reporting and client financial education.
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The Forum Report summarizes and analyzes the main topics of the discussion at MFTransparency’s African Microfinance Pricing Transparency Leadership Forum, synthesising this unprecidented exchange of experiences into a series of critical observations for the microfinance industry about how to implement policy for transparent pricing.
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This case study shows how the Cambodian microfinance market as a whole took an important step towards transparency, due to a bold policy move by the National Bank of Cambodia in 2001. Policymakers and institutions alike, this is an important resource for those wondering what the experience of transitioning to declining balance rates might be like in your own market.
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