Small loans can help farmers … but can also increase wealth gap

PROVIDING small loans to farmers in developing countries who are already struggling with the impact of climate…

Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), SCIEF Launch $30k Changemakers Competition for Shariah-compliant Fintech, Microfinance, “Creative Economy”

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), a multilateral development finance institution based in Saudi Arabia, recently partnered…

Funding Sources for Islamic Microfinance Institutions

By: Muhammad Zubair Mughal There are more than 500 Islamic Microfinance instructions working in 44 countries…

Financial Inclusion through Islamic Microfinance for Economic Growth

“An Exclusive Interview with Roshaneh Zafar- Founder and Managing Director, Kashf  Foundation “ Brief description of you…

SPECIAL REPORT: Saving(s) Microfinance in a Pandemic – and Beyond

Bank in the distant pre-pandemic memory, e-MFP launched the European Microfinance Award (EMA) 2020 on Encouraging Effective & Inclusive…

Pakistan unlikely to avail $4.5bn Islamic Trade Finance Corporation facility

Pakistan and the ITFC on Monday signed about $400 million worth of two facilities to finance…

Driving Financial Inclusion through Micro-insurance Including Takaful

To find new ways of bringing more Nigerians under insurance cover, increase patronage and improve the…

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Maha Agriculture Borrows $6m from FMO for Digital Microfinance in Myanmar

The Netherlands Development Finance Company, which also is known by its Dutch acronym FMO, recently disbursed…

Islamic finance to lessen Covid-19 impact

DEVELOPMENTS of the Islamic financing instruments could help lessen the financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic…

Is microcredit working?

by : Aijaz Ali Khuwaja The ‘success’ of microfinance programmes as agent of poverty alleviation is…