The Central Bank explained that the reform addresses long‑standing structural and operational challenges within the sector to enhance its contribution to financial inclusion and development.

The ordinance creates a new category of institution – the microfinance bank – allowing licensed operators to mobilise deposits from low-income clients while bringing them under the prudential ...

Economic Survey 2025-26 urges linking microfinance investor exits to social impact metrics, warning that return-driven growth risks over-lending, borrower stress, and financial instability ...

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus this month may provide a lift to the already rapidly growing field of microfinance, and bring financial services to a ...

Explore the complexities of microfinance, its benefits, challenges, and the need for better regulation and financial ...

The Economic Survey called for more consistent alignment between impact objectives and investor incentives by linking exit decisions and valuations to the achievement of social purpose metrics, rather ...

Veena Mankar, a banker in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India, looked at the slums in her city and wondered why needy people in urban areas could not benefit from the same access to loans and other ...

For Saccos and microfinance institutions, accreditation has provided a pathway into the formal credit reporting ecosystem, ...

Termed the Microcredit Bank Ordinance 2025, the new law authorises the Bangladesh Bank (BB) to issue licences for microfinance banks ...