Koh Taradash and other leads for the Pinewood Microfinancing Program have loaned over $1,000 to entrepreneurs abroad. Courtesy Koh Taradash. Pinewood School junior Koh Taradash first learned about ...

Once just a ride-sharing company, Grab has been expanding its portfolio to include mobile and peer-to-peer payments and now has added insurance and microfinancing services to the mix. The Southeast ...

Advocates say that Bitcoin could democratize finance. Case in point, the founder of peer-to-peer lending service ProudSource Joe McKinney is building a company that aims to connect underbanked ...

Microfinancing originated as a means to grant small loans, savings accounts and insurance to persons in developing countries to help them launch small businesses or engage in other economic activities ...

A documentary film on a grass-roots method of combating global poverty, made with the help of 2007 Senior High graduate Stan Parker, will have its Montana premiere Thursday night in Billings. The free ...

Microlenders have stepped in to support small businesses traditional banks do not serve — helping marginalized entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground. Jelana Canfield’s baking business was ...

This field, known as “microfinance,” has recently become immensely popular, inspiring similar movements across the nation. In 2009, New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof famously said, ...

Svatantra Microfin has reached an agreement to acquire Navi Group’s microfinancing unit Chaitanya India for about $178.5 million, the two firms said Tuesday, latest in a series of events at ...

Blandino Esplana , 71, pushes his mobile palengke in Vitas-Katuparan, Tondo, Manila. He spends P2,000 to buy vegetables in Divisoria. On a normal day, he earns double if he sells at a higher price, ...

Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Kenya on new efforts to help poor residents of Nairobi's crowded, unsanitary slums find adequate housing through entrepreneurship and microfinancing. In ...