
At the heart of poverty reduction lies the imperative to empower women and promote gender equality

Chennai-based fintech IppoPay recently announced its partnership with card giant Visa to provide credit cards for small businesses. The new deal will

NBFCs accounted for another 6.85% and other MFIs account for 1.05% of the universe, the report said

Centrum's lending operation (small business loans and microfinance) would be integrated into the bank in the first phase.

Non-performing assets (NPAs) have gone up by 8-14% as compared to pre-Covid times for microfinance institutions

The collection on securitised loans are set to see a recovery post the second wave once the restrictions are slowly lifted

Government will guarantee banks to lend to NBFC- MFIs for on-lending to their small microfinance borrowers

Microfinance has helped poor people with small loans for start tiny enterprise but it has also overburdened many with unsustainable debt

RBI also suggests no requirement of collateral, and greater flexibility of repayment frequency for all microfinance loans

Bandhan Bank's total advances during the COVID-ravaged year stood at Rs 87,054 crore, which is 21% (more/less) compared to FY20 i.e. Rs 72,000 crore