India microfinance sector sees stable portfolio, fewer active loans and improving asset quality, as CRIF High Mark report ...

India's microfinance sector recorded its first sequential portfolio expansion in seven quarters, while asset quality improved ...

Commercial microfinance in India is a subprime credit industry that lends to over 35 million working-class women at interest rates of 20 to 26 percent. In the last decade, the industry has seen ...

India’s microfinance sector remains stable in April 2026, with portfolio quality improving despite a seasonal slowdown in ...

A weaker monsoon forecast and possible El Niño conditions are raising concerns for India’s microfinance sector, with lenders ...

While overall asset quality improved in April, a rise in early delinquencies and slower loan disbursals indicate lenders ...

The microfinance industry is projected to reach Rs 5.5 trillion by FY30 as structural correction and regulatory tightening ...

India’s newly unveiled CGSMFI 2.0, a ₹20,000 crore credit guarantee scheme for microfinance, aims to revive credit flows to the stressed sector. Yet, in its current form, it only partially addresses ...

Juan Gonzalez (COL ’15) spent an enlightening semester in India working with microfinance. Not many people consider the slums of Pune, India, to be their desired study-abroad destination. But College ...

Small loans help rural women boost their incomes Loan sharks traditionally dominate village credit markets Microfinance, financial literacy fight informal lenders NARELA, India, Dec 7 (Thomson Reuters ...