The boom of microfinance and its high profits in emerging countries has raised interest in this sector of investors in developed countries. The question to be addressed is how venture capital will help this MFI scale its business and profits? Can developed country investors, facing a lack of...

Microfinance, the provision of financial services to poor people, suffers from high interest rates owing to high transaction costs. Within these transaction costs, technologies such as MIS may be a solution to lower operating costs. However, the small size of most MFIs makes software seem...

Microfinance is the provision of financial services to disadvantaged people and the financially excluded, often with a social mission of poverty alleviation and women empowerment. There are many different forms of microfinance institutions (MFIs): for-profit, not-for-profit and state-owned, all...