"Microfinance" Blogs & Blog Posts

If you’re one of the more than 7 million people in this country who are “unbanked,” you know how hard it can be to live a modern life without a bank account. While the rise of financial apps like Paypal or Venmo has expanded our financial optio...

To keep our money safe, most of us have, at minimum, a checking and a savings account. But many Americans have no sort of bank account at all. Outside of struggling with fees or lack of credit history, reasons for being “unbanked” often involve p...

After twelve years spent investing in impact-oriented financial services startups around the globe, the Omidyar Network, which serves as the family investment office for eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, is spinning off its financial inclusion investment...

Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor Africa Roundup: Safaricom unveils Bonga, Africa’s Talking gets $8.6M, TechCrunch visits Nigeria, Ghana S...

McKinsey finds the vast recent dissemination of mobile technology is poised to substantially increase the economic output of developing nations.

When Benita Chikaluma’s husband died in 1994, her family could easily have fallen into desperate poverty. Chikaluma lives in Malawi, a poor country in southern Africa where women often have little control over their finances. But thanks to the tini...

The poet W.H. Auden wrote that, ‘thousands have lived without love, no one without water.’ One can add that if water is to survive, clean water is to.. The post The first microfinance institution exclusively for water and sanitation targ...