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 ...

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

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, ...

A documentary film on a grass-roots method of combating global poverty, made with the help of 2007 Senior High graduate Stan Parker, will have its Montana premiere Thursday night in Billings. The free ...

IT is the question I hear more than any other — does microfinance actually work? It’s a good question and one we should ask about any activity that purports to have an impact on the lives of the poor, ...

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, ...

MANILA, Philippines — The existence of microfinancing institutions provides a financing system for poor communities to establish small and social enterprises or finance the basic needs of their ...