Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Bosnia and Herzegovina:
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May 11, 2012 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE) has reported to MicroCapital that it has made of the following amounts in support of microfinance during April 2012: USD 10 million to Ineco Bank of Armenia, USD 7 million to Megabank of Ukraine and approximately USD 6.66 million to Partner MikroKreditna Fondacija Tuzla of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
For the year 2011, Ineco Bank reported to the US-based nonprofit Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) total assets of USD 230 million, a ...
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May 10, 2012 - 12:32pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Danielle Donza
For publically traded retail banks, valuations are at historic lows. In the microfinance industry, 2011 also saw the continued compression of valuation multiples from 2009 highs, according to the recently released Global Microfinance Equity Valuation Survey, Volume Growth and Valuation Contraction. CGAP and J.P. Morgan, with support from the
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April 15, 2012 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
Nova Banka AD, a private bank in Bosnia and Herzegovina, reportedly approved a loan of BAM 3 million (USD 2.02 million) to Microcredit Foundation Prizma, a microfinance institution (MFI) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The funds are expected to expand Prizma’s operations in the country’s microfinance sector and increase Nova Banka’s exposure to Prizma to BAM 5 million (USD 3.37 million). The term of the loan has no been disclosed, but it has been described as “long-term” [1].
As of ...
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April 11, 2012 - 7:12am
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
The most rapidly obsolescing part of my book, Due Diligence, is chapter 6, which reviews the statistical evidence of the impact of microfinance on poverty. Since I put the text to bed, working papers have appeared that test microcredit in
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April 5, 2012 - 3:39pm
from MicroCapital
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the World Bank Group, has provided a five-year loan of RUB 300 million (USD 10 million) to Russia-based NBD Bank to support small businesses in small company towns in central Russia [1]. The funds are expected to offer “a new line of financial services and products for small companies to help them invest in production assets and expand employment” [1].
NBD Bank reports total assets of RUB 13.6 billion (USD ...
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March 30, 2012 - 5:00pm
from David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
By David Roodman -
RT @AndrewSprung "The hype is long over" — #microfinance CEOs respond to @DavidRoodman (and a headline writer) http://t.co/btDj3kb6
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March 29, 2012 - 6:05pm
from MicroCapital
In a recent story on New Economic Perspectives, a website offering policy advice and economic analysis, William K Black comments on David Roodman’s article in the Washington Post, “Microcredit doesn’t end poverty, despite all the hype,” which was published on March 11, 2012. Mr Black expands Roodman’s points by analyzing the Bosnian microfinance market through the lens of the research paper published in January 2012, “Bosnia’s Microfinance Meltdown.” The paper by Milford Bateman, Dean ...
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March 29, 2012 - 4:41pm
from Financial Access Initiative Blog
Regulators hope that expanding financial access will also provide greater stability to the overall financial system. This would occur as the market becomes larger and more diverse, and thus better able to withstand difficulties in any particular corner. The range of depositors would enlarge, as would the kinds of financial institutions in the market. Greater competition among providers would create pressure for quality competition. Regulators hope that expanding financial access will also ...
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March 27, 2012 - 8:28pm
from Google news - microfinance
Microfinance: Why Care About Institution Building?Huffington PostDavid Roodman's book, Due Diligence, shapes today's public conversation about microfinance. Time magazine, The Washington Post and others, have picked up on the book and its message. ...
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March 26, 2012 - 11:00am
from David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
*Yet Another Randomized Trial of Microcredit
The latest randomized study of the impact of microcredit has popped up on the web. Snarky blog post title notwithstanding, I very much welcome having yet another randomized test of microcredit—by my count, the fifth—because only after we test in a variety of forms and circumstances can we generalize with (cautious) confidence. We have been ...
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March 20, 2012 - 1:13pm
from Kiva.org
This guest post is by author and journalist Bob Harris. This is the third of a series of posts celebrating Women’s History Month and the incredible ripple effect women can have on their families, communities and countries when they have access to the right resources.Want to see what power and hope look like in person? Jump in a car in León, Nicaragua, and ride into the countryside for about an hour.Soon, the paved ...
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March 18, 2012 - 1:53am
from MicroCapital
The Kyrgyz National Bank, the central bank of Kyrgyzstan, reportedly has stated that the microfinance sector in the country is overheating [1]. As the government-reported aggregate credit portfolio of the industry grew to UZS 15.7 billion (USD 85.4 million) in 2011, “growth of excessive indebtedness is observed with it” [1]. This is despite regulations that have been passed with the intent of providing borrowers with “transparent pricing and the effective interest rate, as well as the ...
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March 3, 2012 - 7:05pm
from MicroCapital
Partner Microcredit Foundation (PMCF), a microfinance institution in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the technical assistance arm of the European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE), a development finance investment fund, have collaborated on a financial literacy project for which PMCF created a “guide to smart borrowing” that covers topics including conducting business with financial institutions, obtaining a loan, acting as a guarantor on a loan, management of household budgets and the basics ...
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February 29, 2012 - 9:58am
from Morocco Microfinance Blog
Microfinance Focus, February 28, 2012: Microfinance rating agency MicroRate and Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) have today co-published a study ‘The Tipping Point: Over-indebtedness and investment in microfinance’, which examines whether investments ...
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February 27, 2012 - 6:33pm
from MicroCapital
“Competition, Loan Rates and Information Dispersion in Microcredit Markets” by G. Baquero, Malika Hamadi, and Andréas Heinen; published by the European School of Management and Technology; November 21, 2011; 58 pages; available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2006485&
This paper compares both nonprofit and for-profit microcredit providers to investigate what effect ...
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February 25, 2012 - 4:23pm
from MicroCapital
Switzerland’s responsAbility Social Investments AG (responsAbility) recently reported to MicroCapital that funds it manages have disbursed loans totaling USD 4.5 million to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Kyrgyz Republic. ProCredit Bank Romania received USD 1.97 million from responsAbility Mikrofinanz-Fonds (rAMF). Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Mikrofin received USD 983,550 from responsAbility Global Microfinance Fund (rAGMF). The Kyrgyz Republic’s ...
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February 14, 2012 - 1:11am
from Financial Access Initiative Blog
Part 1 ("The Economics of Microsavings") of this brief exploration into the economics of savings-driven microfinance looked at the role of microsavings at microfinance institutions. In one large study, poor borrowers, despite accounting for 75% of active accounts, only contributed 3% of total deposits mobilized, mainly because they maintain low balances. However, poor savings clients carry out frequent transactions, for ...
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February 10, 2012 - 4:45pm
from David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
The microfinance rating agency MicroRate recently released an update of its Role Reversal report, which received wide attention five years ago. Like the original, Role Reversal Revisited makes a strong case that public agencies such as the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation are investing heavily in microfinance institutions that are also capable of attracting finance from private investors. Thus public investors are “crowding out” private ...
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February 9, 2012 - 7:22pm
from MicroCapital
By the Economist Intelligence Unit, funded by The Multilateral Investment Fund, Corporación Andina de Fomento and the International Finance Corporation, October 2011, 72 pages, available at: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=36453519.
This paper examines the microfinance business environments in 55 countries, ...
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February 3, 2012 - 9:10pm
from Microfinance Focus
Microfinance Focus, February 4, 2012: According to a MIX and CGAP report ‘2011 Eastern Europe and Central Asia’, Bosnian microfinance institutions are experiencing hard times recovering from the financial crisis and high over-indebtedness
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