This paper addresses some of the challenges associated with MFIs getting into the remittance business. Issues addressed include tehnical networks, appropriate skills, governance issues and regulatory impediments. Author: Scott S. Robinson.Date:June 2004. Format: PDF, 11 pages.

This newsletter provides an overview of the current trends in remittances as well as announcements of recent initiatives aiming to couple support MFIs to take advantage of remittances for their business. Author: AMAP; Date: August 2004.

This paper looks at migrant remittances to and in Africa and the link with the microfinance industry as a provider of money transfer or ancillary financial services to remittances. It explores what transfer services microfinance institutions currently do or could provide and discusses the opportunities and challenges of such services for MFIs. Author: Cerstin Sander. Date: July 2003. Format: PDF, 31 pages.

Interrupcion es una organizacion sin fines de lucro basada en Argentina. La iniciativa 'Interpay' busca generar empleo y empoderamiento social en comunidades vulnerables a traves de la creacion y desarrollo de microemprendimientos, basadose en el modelo de Empresa Social. Para conocer mas de su trabajo, visite el website.

The money transfer study looks at how primarily low-income people and micro-entrepreneurs send and receive money in a setting where financial services and their outreach are very limited. Looking at Tanzania and Uganda, the study introduces the supply and demand sides --such as the available means and services, and trends in services and user preferences, users and uses, and costs and risks. This leads into an identification of attributes of good products and an assessment of the potential for a more...

Remittances are a major source of income from Latin American migrants working in other countries. Approximately 18 million families in Latin America receive around 38 billion dollars per year from migrants working in the United States of America. A large section of this group of emigrants also forms the target population for microfinance services.

This article provides a view of the principal experiences accomplished in the framework of a joint project of the Internationale Mikro Investition more...

The 3rd article in this Quarterly Newsletter of the Focal Point for Microfinance at ADB, argues that remittances can be an important source of income and funds for MFIs. Because most MFIs rely heavily on interest income, they are vulnerable to potential volatilities in the income from this source. Thus income from remittances-related business can help MFIs reduce this vulnerability. Also, this can be an important source of profits directly and indirectly. The article lists several MFIs that have more...

This report provides a good overview of the trends in remmittances from the perspectives of where they come from, where they are sent to, what amount they tend to be, the means by which the remmittances are sent home and the comparative cost of the transfer. The report also provides short cases studies on MFIs already engaged in remittances include Fonkoze in Haiti, Banco Solidario in Ecuador, PRODEM in Bolivia, Kosovo’s microfinance bank, Equity Building Society in Kenya, and Centenary Rural more...

Dear All,



Planet Finance Training and Technical Support Department is pleased to inform you that the first issue of the Research Journal on Microfinance and Development will be launched in the end of January 2005.



The Journal is a bi-annual publication of the Planet Finance and will launch in collaboration with renowned microfinance practitioners and MFIs/NGOs. This Journal aims at improving microfinance practices and impact on development by publishing simple and useful researc more...

This case study, is an outcome of CERUDEB, a private limited liability company operating a commercial banking business with a microfinance niche. The author presents the human resource policy elaborated by the CERUDEB and reviews systems and tools used in Human Resource Management
This working paper is only 7 pages and is provided in PDF format. October 2000.