Optasia sees formal banking as a massive growth opportunity as microfinancing overtakes its airtime advance business.

Once just a ride-sharing company, Grab has been expanding its portfolio to include mobile and peer-to-peer payments and now has added insurance and microfinancing services to the mix. The Southeast ...

Advocates say that Bitcoin could democratize finance. Case in point, the founder of peer-to-peer lending service ProudSource Joe McKinney is building a company that aims to connect underbanked ...

This field, known as “microfinance,” has recently become immensely popular, inspiring similar movements across the nation. In 2009, New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof famously said, ...

Robert Rooy produced the PBS documentary "To Our Credit" detailing with the experiences of the Grameen Bank, founded in Bangladesh, which offers microfinancing to some of the world's poor women in ...

Svatantra Microfin has reached an agreement to acquire Navi Group’s microfinancing unit Chaitanya India for about $178.5 million, the two firms said Tuesday, latest in a series of events at ...

Blandino Esplana , 71, pushes his mobile palengke in Vitas-Katuparan, Tondo, Manila. He spends P2,000 to buy vegetables in Divisoria. On a normal day, he earns double if he sells at a higher price, ...

Alternative financing models such as P2P lending, crowdfunding, and Shariah-compliant microfinance solutions are gaining traction in Malaysia. These innovative platforms provide non-traditional credit ...

Through September 2012, the All-China Women's Federation had handed out small loans totaling 109 billion yuan ($17.5 billion) to nearly 2.4 million women across China, a senior official said on Friday ...