Once just a ride-sharing company, Grab has been expanding its portfolio to include mobile and peer-to-peer payments and now has added insurance and microfinancing services to the mix. The Southeast ...

Microfinancing originated as a means to grant small loans, savings accounts and insurance to persons in developing countries to help them launch small businesses or engage in other economic activities ...

This field, known as “microfinance,” has recently become immensely popular, inspiring similar movements across the nation. In 2009, New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof famously said, ...

Svatantra Microfin has reached an agreement to acquire Navi Group’s microfinancing unit Chaitanya India for about $178.5 million, the two firms said Tuesday, latest in a series of events at ...

Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Kenya on new efforts to help poor residents of Nairobi's crowded, unsanitary slums find adequate housing through entrepreneurship and microfinancing. In ...

Microfinance, the Nobel Prize-winning initiative to turn aspiring Third World entrepreneurs into self-sustaining CEOs, has long been the only game in town when it comes to offering developing world ...

Alternative financing models such as P2P lending, crowdfunding, and Shariah-compliant microfinance solutions are gaining traction in Malaysia. These innovative platforms provide non-traditional credit ...

CIUDAD JUáREZ, MEXICO - Like the satin and organza she uses to help transform young women into beautiful brides, a $150 loan has helped make over seamstress Gloria Arizpe from a microbusiness owner to ...