
MFP 149. UPA in Guatemala - Credit Unions as World-Class Microfinance Providers. Part 3
Credit unions play a pivotal role in providing access to financial services to the base of the pyramid. The credit union movement is based o...
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Credit unions play a pivotal role in providing access to financial services to the base of the pyramid. The credit union movement is based o...
Credit unions play a pivotal role in providing access to financial services to the base of the pyramid. The credit union movement is based o...

Credit unions play a pivotal role in providing access to financial services to the base of the pyramid. The credit union movement is based o...
Resumiendo los resultados del estudio el Sr. Silva da recomendaciones que podrían ser útiles para los operadores de las IFM as...

Summarizing the details of a study of MFI failures, Alex Silva gives important recommendations for MFI sponsors, managers, and funders: Reco...

Sin duda, los profesionales en microfinanzas de todo el mundo se beneficiarán de este estudio seminal sobre las IMFs de Améric...

Alex Silva provides more details of the major reasons for the failure of microfinance institutions – an important topic that - so far-...

¿Qué podemos aprender de los fracasos en las microfinanzas? Las historias de éxito de las instituciones de microfinanza...
What can we learn from failures in microfinance? Successful microfinance institutions (MFIs) have been widely studied to understand the reas...
How does a crisis help microfinance institutions and their clients? Pancho Otero, one of the global industry pioneers, explains how this is...

Why is successful microfinance based on savings? The microfinance industry has produced a fair share of pioneers and visionaries, and Pancho...

How did BancoSol become a global leader in deposit mobilization? Kurt Koenigsfest, CEO of BancoSol, describes four key success factors that...

In the third episode on BancoSol, Latin America's and the world's first bank fully dedicated to microfinance, we meet the CEO. Kurt Koenigsf...

We continue our coverage of BancoSol, Latin America's first microfinance bank. In this episode, Jaime Zegarra talks about the bank's strateg...

BancoSol is a true microfinance pioneer. As Latin America's first commercial microfinance bank it has been much copied but never surpassed....

The ProCredit Group is one of the global microfinance leaders. With operations on three continents, the group is the largest international n...

The ProCredit Group is one of the global microfinance leaders. With operations on three continents, the group is the largest international n...
Peru is one of the most dynamic microfinance markets in the world. In a very competitive market, Financiera CREAR has been a rising star. Ma...

Peru is one of the most dynamic microfinance markets in the world. In a very competitive market, Financiera CREAR has been a rising star. Ma...

Michael McCaffrey, Financial Inclusion Technical Specialist, Pacific Financial Inclusion Program (PFIP), talks about the design of a suite o...
Michael McCaffrey, Financial Inclusion Technical Specialist, Pacific Financial Inclusion Program (PFIP), talks about the specific challenges...
Bob Christen, Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. talks about the strategic focus on savings. The successful mobilization of small-sc...

Evelyn Stark, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation talks about the importance of marketing in successful mobile-money dep...
Microfinance Podcast wishes you success in all your micro, small and large projects in 2011!
Clara Veniard, Associate Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, talks about a bank-led agent model where the customer proposition...
Clara Veniard, Associate Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, talks about a bank-led agent model where the customer proposition...

Ignacio Mas, Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, talks about stores acting as cash merchants and their basic need to periodica...

Daniel Radcliffe, Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, describes how retail payment systems can reach a critical mass of custom...

Daniel Radcliffe, Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, talks about the fundamental factors that affect the growth and success i...

Amolo Ng'weno talks about M-PESA which is reaching over 12 million people at 19 million outlets. This provides amazing transaction rails for...
Tamara Cook talks about one of the partners of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Opportunity International Bank of Malawi, as an example...

"Today we have a historic opportunity to use mobile phones to solve two major problems that bankers faced for generations: how do you get th...
Increasing competition amongst financial institutions in Bangladesh has given clients many options to choose from. But competition has broug...

Listening to clients is at the heart of providing financial services in a market-led approach. Financial service providers should always kee...

Roger Voorhies, Founder and Former CEO, OIBM talks about the bank's institution building, the bank's experience with technology - cards, m-b...

Roger Voorhies talks about the biggest challenges and natural advantages of doing microfinance in Africa. He also introduces the history of...

Mark Schreiner, Director, Microfinance Risk Management talks about the future of poverty scoring and gives examples of how MFIs use this pow...
Mark Schreiner, Director, Microfinance Risk Management explains where a score card comes from, what are the challenges of implementing the s...

Mark Schreiner, Director, Microfinance Risk Management talks about the poverty scoring as a way for microlenders to measure how poor their c...
Michael McCord, President, MicroInsurance Centre, LLC talks about the factors that push the growth of microinsurance, the evolution of produ...
Michael McCord, President, MicroInsurance Centre, LLC talks about the best potential delivery channels for michroinsurance. Since its incept...

Michael McCord, President, MicroInsurance Centre, LLC gives a definition of microinsurance and talks about the mechanisms of implementing mi...
Daryl Collins, co-author of "Portfolios of the Poor" and Senior Associate, Bankable Frontier Associates talks about implementing lessons fro...

Daryl Collins, co -author of "Portfolios of the Poor" and Senior Associate at Bankable Frontier Associates talks about implementing lessons...

Sukhwinder Singh Arora, co-author of two books 'Small Customer, Big Market: Commercial Banks in Microfinance' (with Malcolm Harper) and 'The...
Richard Rosenberg, consultant to CGAP, talks about the value proposition of microfinance and how this relates to the price for financial ser...
Richard Rosenberg, consultant to CGAP, talks about the value proposition of microfinance and how this relates to the price for financial ser...
Richard Rosenberg, consultant to CGAP, highlights the biggest findings of "Portfolios of the Poor". Richard has been with CGAP since its fou...
Yaw Nyarko, Professor of Economics at New York University and Director of NYU Africa House, talks about the particulars of the research for...
Jonathan Morduch, co-author of "Portfolios of the Poor" shares his opinion on what the book tells us about reimagining microfinance. Jonatha...