Microfinance institutions (MFIs) across East Africa have been warned that they face growing exposure to financial crime and mounting regulatory pressure even as artificial intelligence (AI) opens new ...

The microfinance textbook doesn’t have much to say about state regulatory capacity. The idea that small loans to very poor people is effective in pulling them out of poverty is so simple and appealing ...

For many years, leading microfinance institutions (MFIs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been managed through their respective boards of directors. These boards, usually comprising five ...