The San Francisco company, the charitable giving arm of Charles Schwab Corp., said in launching its microfinance guarantee program last week that it that lets donors set aside a portion of their ...

In the first year of the Schwab Charitable Microfinance Guarantee Program, donors set aside $10-million from their gift funds to guarantee small loans to poor entrepreneurs in developing countries. As ...

Toronto, ON, May 14, 2008 – The MasterCard Foundation launched its Scholars Program today by awarding grants totaling $600,000 to six leading microfinance training institutes. The program will fund ...

A decade ago, Unitus set out to accelerate the commercial investment in microfinance—to prove that banks and other investors could earn a return on their loans while helping impoverished people move ...

Microfinance is a powerful tool that the poor can use to inch their way out of poverty by taking advantage of new opportunities and better managing the sufferings they face. Designed well, ...

BlueOrchard Finance, a Switzerland-based impact investment manager, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have entered a $50 million risk-sharing agreement for microfinance coverage in ADB’s developing ...

Online food and grocery delivery platform foodpanda has partnered with Brac Microfinance to expand access to inclusive financial services for its rider partners. Through this collaboration, eligible ...

Within the scope of the annual free microfinance, Salaam Somali Bank has put a smile on the faces of small business owners in the Afgoye district of the southern agriculture-rich Lower Shabelle ...

LANCASTER - Habitat for Humanity of Southeast Ohio has announced a program available to Fairfield County, after the organization expanded its service area to the county In a news release, Habitat said ...