Mr. Matthew Fuchs of Microfinance Focus spoke with Graham A.N Wright, Program Director of MicroSave India, a microfinance consultancy firm. Here are the excerpts from the interview: Microfinance Focus: MicroSave recently launched the "MFI in a Box." Can you explain what this project is about? Graham Wright: We've been working with the RBSFI, the ... Read More

Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, has been a great inspiration to the entire microfinance community. Microfinance Focus congratulates Dr Yunus and takes the opportunity to republish an exclusive interview that Dr. Yunus had given to it on March 30 on the sidelines of the Sa-Dhan’s National Microfinance Conference ... Read More

Mr. Sam Daley Harris  gave an exclusive interview to Mr. Jerome Peloquin , Microfinance Focus`s Managing Editor-US,  Here are the excerpts from the interview: Mr. Peloquin:  The Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit will be held April 7-10, 2010 in Nairobi, Kenya.  That will be the 14th regional or global summit the Microcredit Summit ... Read More

By Peter Burgess, Bureau Chief -New York | Microfinance Focus --- I had an informal conversation with Howard Finkelstein in a cafŽ not far from Wall Street last week. I have been aware of Howard's work with microfinance for some time ... his work as a lawyer helping to structure some of the first deals to bring ... Read More

MF Focus: Founding SEWA helped practically so many women getting out of poverty and becom ing more self-confident. What about the political impact? Bhatt: This is part of the game, SEWA has grown large and has its presence. We are dealing in the mainstream economy and we are bound to shed up ... Read More

Mr. Aloysius P. Fernandez is Executive Director of rural development NGO MYRADA and Chairman of the Board of the microfinance institution SANGHAMITRA Rural Financial Services. In 2002 he was conferred with the prestigious Padmashree award. Christina Weichselbaumer and Vikash Kumar talked to him at his office in Bangalore. Here are the excerpts :- MF Focus: What is the ... Read More

Mr. Alex Counts Mr. Alex Counts gave an exclusive interview to the MICROFINANCE FOCUS during  “Samvad: a dialogue on microfinance” conference organized by Grameen Koota in Bangalore . Here are the excerpts from the interview: MF Focus: How do you view multiple borrowing and how do you think the industry should handle it? Mr. Counts: ... Read More

Dr. Vikram Akula MF FOCUS: How do different technologies you use such as wireless POS, smart cards, and mobile banking decrease transaction costs? Dr. Akula: Certainly one of the major problems in microfinance is high transaction costs, because in doing millions of tiny loans there are high transaction costs. Things like technology, ... Read More