'This paper is structured as a technical interview with practitioners from MFIs which have implemented process mapping in their respective organizations and investigates the process followed as well as experiences encountered during the implementation of process mapping.'

A non-government organization was launched Monday which will make public the interest rates charged by microfinance lenders. [Nobel Peace Prize winner] Muhammad Yunus… launched MicroFinance Transparency in Bali where Microcredit Summit Campaign, a Washington, DC-based network of more than 3,600 of the world's leading institutions providing tiny loans to 133 million poor clients, mostly in developing nations, has begun a three-day conference

New series captures good practice and lessons learnt from seven microfinance institutions (MFIs) managing their social performance.

Learn about how leading MFIs are defining their strategies to achieve their social mission, tracking their progress towards their social objectives and using this information to improve overall organisational performance. The series also captures lessons learnt as MFIs integrate a social responsibility lens into their performance management systems.

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MicroRate is the first rating agency specializing in the evaluation of microfinance institutions (MFIs). Its objective is to link MFIs with funding sources and in particular with international capital markets. Over the past decade, MicroRate has analyzed over 300 MFIs in Latin America and Africa and other developing regions. .

Mico-Credit Ratings International (M-CRIL) is the world leader in credit ratings or risk assessments of microfinance institutions. M-CRIL has undertaken over 390 ratings and assessments of MFIs across 16 countries in South Asia, South East Asia, Central Asia and the Pacific. M-CRIL has developed robust understanding of operations of microfinance institutions. M-CRIL has successfully facilitated the flow of significant amount of commercial funds to the microfinance sector. Rating involves a det more...

"To help investors parse them, Forbes compiled its first-ever list of the Top Microfinance Institutions. Forbes scoured 2006 data from the Microfinance Information Exchange, as well as analysis from ratings firms Micro-Credit Ratings International Limited and MicroRate, to rank the top 50 microfinance institutions (from a field of 641 reporting microfinance providers). This microfinance package also includes commentary from Elizabeth Littlefield, a senior World Bank official. Michael Chu, a vete more...

The Citi Foundation and the Financial Times have launched “There’s Nothing Micro About It,” a unique microentrepreneurship awareness campaign that grew out of both organizations’ commitments to microfinance and poverty alleviation made at the 2006 Clinton Global Initiative.

The campaign includes the launch of a new website, dedicated to microentrepreneurship. The site highlights the Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards, which took place in more than 23 countries on five continents, lis more...

The Microfinance Rating and Assessment Fund (the Rating Fund) is a multi-donor initiative headquartered in Luxembourg and funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP). The Rating Fund offers subsidies to MFIs for up to 80% of the cost of a performance evaluation (rating or risk assessment). The Fund has a limited number of subsidies (no more than 30) available for MFIs located in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Middle East/North Africa, more...

CRISIL, which has been conducting research on microfinance institutions (MFIs) since 2001, has discovered that net profitability margin, annual credit loss, and operating expenses to disbursements ratio are accurate and widely applicable for measuring the profitability and asset quality of MFIs.

This web site presents a network which provides support to the microfinance sector. Towards ADFinance and ADBanking, they try to reinforce the sector and develop tools to help microfinance institutions. Concerning the indebtedness of borrowers they promote a tool integrated in the information system of the actors to notably share informations about the “bad borrowers”. The ADBanking Microfinance management software meets an urging demand of microfinance actors, who have had to cope with the more...