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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The existence of microfinancing institutions provides a financing system for poor communities to establish small and social enterprises or finance the basic needs of their ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Batang Quiapo party-list has vowed to help intensify microfinancing for business if it wins a seat in the May 12 midterm elections. Zofia Canlas, a nominee of Batang Quiapo ...

NICO Carridice, co-founder and CEO of financial technology company Tarpa Corporation Limited, is calling on microfinancing institutions (MFIs) to “get in line” and prepare to become licensed and ...