By Nagesh Narayana Microfinance Focus, Feb. 5, 2010: Incofin, a Belgium-based microfinance fund, is raising funds for its second Rural Impulse Fund with a target of about ...0 comments

Microfinance Focus, Jan 25, 2010: Leading Minds in the Asian microfinance industry meet at a conference in Singapore bringing together central banks and policy makers, commercial banks, asset managers, private and institutional investors, multilateral investors, ...0 comments

By Nagesh Narayana Microfinance Focus, Dec. 16, 2009: Apoyo Integral Inversiones, a microfinance investment company in Central America, has acquired acquired a controlling interest in the Mexican MFI Semisol, last October, through a buy-out of  “Investisseur ...0 comments

Microfinance Focus, Dec. 16, 2009: The Flemish government has approved the request for guarantee for the Incofin investment in DR Congo, which will facilitate Incofin to invest safely in Finca Congo, a microfinance institution with ...0 comments

By Matthew Fuchs Microfinance Focus, Dec. 16, 2009: Microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs) remain "largely de-correlated" from other capital markets, a study of by LuxFlag of MIV performance during the economic crisis has found. Despite a slowing ...0 comments

By Matthew Fuchs Microfinance Focus, Dec. 15, 2009: Dexia Microcredit Fund (DMCF) posted slightly negative returns in November due to continued provisioning against loans to microfinance institutions in Nicaguara, according to fund manager BlueOrchard. The fund ...0 comments

Microfinance Focus, Jan.8, 2010: Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder of BRAC in Bangladesh and a pioneer in the fight to end poverty, will participate in the Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit to be held April ...0 comments

Microfinance Focus, Jan 05, 2010: SA-DHAN, a network of microfinance institutions in India, in collaboration with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) is organizing national level microfinance conference on 17th & 18th ...0 comments

Microfinance Focus, Dec. 7, 2009: Spain will host the Global Microcredit Summit 2011. Spain is the second largest bilateral donor to international microfinance. The 2011 Global Summit to be held in Valladoid, Spain is expected to ...0 comments

Microfinance Focus, Dec. 05, 2009: Srijan 2009 Microfinance Forum and Awards hosted by Intellecap & Standard Chartered Bank at Hyatt Regency in Mumbai will address and spur the discussion around Social vs. Commercial Aspects of ...0 comments

Microfinance Focus, Dec. 1, 2009: The IFC Global Corporate Governance Forum and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will hold a two-day workshop on Corporate Governance in Tbilisi this week to be attended ...0 comments

Microfinance Focus, Nov. 28,  2009: Even where 100% financial inclusion is claimed (Karnataka state in India), oftentimes it is inclusion only in a nominal sense, said RBI Governor Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao in a keynote address ...0 comments