Rapid expansion led to overleveraging and rising defaults, forcing regulators to shift focus from growth to stability. The key takeaway is that unchecked lending can undermine both financial health ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) advises microfinance institutions to closely monitor financial stress as loan disbursements ...

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 ...

Microfinance loans have become a lifeline for many in India, especially those who don't have access to traditional banking ...

India's group insurance sector is facing a second consecutive year of contraction, with the top four private life insurers ...

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 ...

The move comes as India’s microfinance loan portfolio shrank to ₹3.34 trillion by November 2025, amid rising risks and ...

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 ...

New Delhi [India]: The worst is over for India's microfinance sector, with stress levels posed to ease over the next two quarters, said Axis Securities in its latest report. Microfinance companies are ...

Microfinance in India has traversed a long history since it debuted in the late 1980s as a social banking innovation anchored in informal self-help groups (SHGs). It was mainstreamed as the self-help ...