Sentence examples for finance institutions from inspiring English sources

A closer competitor to Wonga would be community development finance institutions, or CDFIs.

Different approaches to lending in poor neighbourhoods have meant that community-development finance institutions (CDFIs) have performed fairly well in the past three years.

The new deal also calls for donors – bilateral aid agencies, UN agencies and international finance institutions – to fundamentally change their modus operandi.

However, neither the government nor the mines' investors consider nomadic herders to be eligible for protection under the indigenous people's safeguards of the development finance institutions.

In 2012 the share of "development finance institutions" in the "climate finance landscape" was 34% (the highest share of any single type of actor).

We need to consider a gradual transition toward new kinds of housing finance institutions — entities that may lead us to a different kind of housing, yet preserve our core values.

Social entrepreneurship, for-profit social enterprises and transparent micro-finance institutions are more effective ways of empowering communities and closing the poverty gap.

Rising consumer anger at predatory collection practices coupled with a tough new state law pushed micro-finance institutions in Andhra Pradesh toward insolvency.

Micro-lending, by micro-finance institutions or by self-help groups (in which borrowers club together to provide collateral), is increasing.

It works with local micro-finance institutions, which have the specialist knowledge needed to identify suitable recipients, but don't have enough money to help them.

Fixed-cost underwriting by micro-finance institutions.