CGAP, an umbrella organisation at the World Bank for microfinance, for instance, has looked into promoting online training for microfinance practitioners in the field.
The event will bring together microfinance practitioners, investors, donors, experts, consultants, researchers, IT vendors, policy makers and media to address a number of topics around the theme "Clients and Institutions, Growing Together".
The event will bring together microfinance practitioners, investors, donors, experts, consultants, researchers, IT vendors, policy makers and media to address a number of topics around the theme "Clients and Institutions, Growing Together". Bosnia and Herzegovina is another small, yet competitive, microfinance market.
Indeed, Yunus is right -- and many microfinance practitioners and developing countries have paid attention.
Whether it achieves its potential will largely be determined by three issues; How can we protect already vulnerable people from abuses by unsavory microfinance practitioners?
My own focus has been with the Smart Campaign, a global effort to unite microfinance practitioners and supporters around a core set of Client Protection Principles.
By 2009 advances in payment transfers and internet connectivity had made direct P2P microlending technically possible, but most microfinance practitioners assumed that low-income people in developing countries would not repay loans responsibly without the supervision of local branch offices, loan officers, and other expensive infrastructure.
Academic Presentation: "The Next Billion Microfinance Customers" Practitioner panel discussion: "Risk Assessment and Management with Capital Markets" Moderated by Professor Chris Mayer, Columbia Business School.
The coveted title of a genuine "microfinance institution" from a "practitioner" may owe less to what the institution does than to its public-relations skills.
This prompted the subsequent scholars and practitioners in microfinance, such as Muhammad Yunus of Grameen Bank and Fazle Hasan Abed of BRAC, to abandon the cooperative approach in favour of more centralised control and service delivery structures.
