Average ticket sizes across the microfinance industry are also increasing, with share of loans above Rs 75,000 now at 38 per cent in October-December 2025, compared with 25 per cent, a year ago.

Banks have turned cautious on microfinance after months of stress. The ₹20,000 crore guarantee seeks to de-risk lending and ...

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 ...

Microfinance loans have emerged as a powerful tool for empowering rural women in India, providing them with the financial ...

AI Quick Read The Economic Survey said on Thursday that prioritising metrics which track household well-being over indicators of scale, such as the number of borrowers and total loans will strengthen ...

Svatantra Microfin Pvt Ltd has merged with Chaitanya India Fin Credit and Svatantra Holding following NCLT approval, becoming ...

New Delhi [India], February 24 (ANI): The microfinance sector in the country is expected to register growth over FY26-28E, driven by selective customer additions, higher ticket sizes, and incremental ...

By Gopika Gopakumar and Ashwin Manikandan MUMBAI, March 20 (Reuters) - India's finance ministry has approved a 200 billion rupee ($2.14 billion) credit guarantee scheme for microfinance firms to ...

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 ...

HOUSTON, March 7, 2022 – In partnership with the India Studies program at the University of Houston, Asia Society Texas welcomed three experts to discuss the microfinance industry in urban India, ...