House passes Bills to regulate MFIs, fees in private educational institutions

The Bihar Micro Finance Institutions (Regulations of Money Lending and Prevention of Coercive Actions) Bill, 2026, aims to ...

No more forced recovery: Bihar’s new law limits borrowers to two MFIs and bans unauthorised loans

Under the new law, microfinance institutions (MFIs) can no longer give loans without the Bihar government’s permission. It ...
ssir.org

Following India’s Microfinance Crisis, A Shift to Male Clients

Since the 2010 microfinance crisis in Andhra Pradesh, India has turned the industry up-side down. One thing is sure: microfinance institutions (MFIs) that survive the crisis will have to make drastic ...
The Daily Star

Microfinance institutions may get a digital bank

The Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA) is considering a proposal to establish a digital bank owned by microfinance institutions (MFIs) to modernise the sector and cut operational costs. Prof ...
Business Line

Exclusion from sharing, accessing credit info puts non-profit MFIs in a bit of a spot

Strict enforcement of the rule book by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on sharing credit information with credit information companies (CICs) and accessing it from them has put non-profit microfinance ...