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- Feb, 2012Learn about the performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in 2010 and 2011 (for select markets). The following graphs and tables: Provide an overview of all known microfinance providers in ECA...
- Jan, 2012In August 2011, MIX launched a map that displays the location of 819 microfinance banks currently licensed to operate in Nigeria. The map gives a basic view on the market supply of microfinance services, in the context of some key factors such as mobile...
- Jan, 2012Learn about the performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2011. The following graphs and tables: illustrate the rural dimension of loan portfolio across the region describe of the concentration and...
- Nov, 2011Growth slows, followed by the decline The 2010 crisis in Andhra Pradesh (AP) halted the rapid expansion of the Indian microfinance market, causing a high concentration of microfinance institutions in AP to become unsustainable. For the first time,...
- Nov, 2011Why is debt financing important for microfinance? Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have three main sources to fund their growth: debt, equity, and deposits (for those allowed to mobilize deposits). In this review, we will focus on the role of debt...
- Oct, 2011MIX and the Multilateral Investment Fund are pleased to present the 2011 edition of “Microfinance Americas: The Top 100,” our annual snapshot of 100 leading microfinance institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean. As in the last two years, the...
- Sep, 2011This article "Microfinance and the Role of Policies and Procedures in Saturated Markets and During Periods of Fast Growth" evaluates the role that governance, management information systems (MIS), risk management procedures, and lending...
- Sep, 2011The landscape data yields the following big numbers as outlined earlier: 71 million clients, 44 million deposit accounts, 20 million loans, across 23,000 providers in 45 countries. If we begin to break this data out by products and provider types, we can...
- Sep, 2011In this section, we describe the methodology of our research in more detail, along with some conclusions based on the process behind constructing this data set.We began by compiling data from several different sources, including local and international...
- Sep, 2011In years past, there have been several attempted efforts to develop supply-side estimates of global financial access. As the methodology behind the Africa landscape data both builds on and differs from these efforts in some respects, we will review...
- Sep, 2011A first step in understanding access to financial services for the poor is measuring this access. Broad-based supply information helps answer basic ‘who / what / when / where / how’ questions in regards to these services. To better understand the...
- Aug, 2011Many, although not all, of the problems observed in microfinance sectors recently were triggered by the latest financial crisis and fluctuations in both food and fuel prices. At the same time, many problems began before the most recent financial...
- Aug, 2011MIX presents the “2005-2010 Trends for the Latin American and the Caribbean microfinance market”, an update to the trend report published in May 2010. This report shows the region’s performance based on a variety of indicators in categories such as...
- Aug, 2011To better understand the burden that external reporting places on MFIs, MIX conducted a research study focused on Sub-Saharan Africa. The study included interviews with MFI executives, an online survey, and narratives collected from MFI staff involved in...
- Aug, 2011In 2006, the Central Bank of Nigeria began to transform a network of several hundred community banks into ‘microfinance banks’ (MFB). Since that time, the registration rolls have ballooned, now to over 900 institutions, albeit not without...
