Publications

The MIX Trend Lines use a peer group framework that draws only on microfinance institutions that have reported for at least four consecutive years to MIX and detail developments in retail microfinance performance.

This spreadsheet contains benchmark data on the performance of microfinance institutions around the globe. These benchmarks are the results for groups of institutions — peer groups — sharing common characteristics, such as region of operation or size.

The second Championship League ranking was produced by MIX for publication in the Inter-American Development Bank’s magazine Microenterprise Americas. The article ranks Latin American and Caribbean microfinance institutions based on performance in 2004 in seven categories including scale, efficiency, and profitability.

With average Adjusted Return on Assets over 4% and an average Outstanding Loan Balance of less than 1,000 USD, Latin America’s 80 leading microfinance institutions are lending small amounts while achieving record profitability.

Growth in the microfinance industry in the Arab world is in full swing. This young sector, where non governmental organizations and solidarity loans still predominate, is slowly transforming: diversifying its institutional structures and client services. This slow diversification comes with rapid growth in coverage. Traditional MFIs analyzed in the 2002 edition of the Benchmarking Arab Microfinance report have doubled their outreach, climbing to more than 400,000 active borrowers by the end of 2003.

This fourth issue of the Microfinance Capital Markets Update provides news as of August 2005.

The microfinance capital markets update is produced and edited by CGAP and the Microfinance Information eXchange (MIX). The newsletter is the only publication dedicated to microfinance capital markets news, and is distributed to thousands of microfinance providers, investors, donors, rating agencies, and consultants.