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Are MFIs’ Portfolios as Strong as They Appear?


CGAP has just revised and updated its Due Diligence Guidelines for the Review of Microcredit Loan Portfolios. This tool offers banking supervisors, investors, donor agencies, and microfinance managers a range of techniques to check the solidity of MFI loan assets.


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2010 Digital Money Forum: CGAP is organizing a session focused on technology and unbanked customers at the 2010 Digital Money Forum. The goal of the Forum is to encourage discussion and debate around the real issues of electronic money in all its forms (London, March 10-11, 2010).

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Watch the Video -- Branchless Banking Scenarios for 2020: After releasing a Focus Note, CGAP produced a video that discusses the 2009 CGAP and DFID scenario-building project on using branchless banking to reach the unserved majority by 2020.

CITI-FT Financial Education Summit 2009: CGAP is one of the supporting partners for this year's Financial Education Summit, which convened around 300 representatives of nonprofit organizations, financial institutions, government agencies/regulators, multilateral institutions, and microfinance institutions. (Singapore, December 3-4)

Nomination: The White House announced the nomination of CGAP CEO Elizabeth Littlefield to become President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). If Ms. Littlefield is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Alexia Latortue will become the Acting CEO of CGAP while a global search is underway for CGAP's new CEO.

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Due Diligence Guidelines for the Review of Microcredit Loan Portfolios: These guidelines help analysts evaluate the accuracy of accounting and performance reports about an MFI's portfolio, and the MFI’s compliance with its own portfolio management policies.


SmartAid for Microfinance Index: The SmartAid for Microfinance Index is an innovative tool that measures one part of the effectiveness equation: funders’ internal management systems.

 

Scenarios for Branchless Banking in 2020: This Focus Note discusses the 2009 CGAP and DFID scenario-building project on using branchless banking to reach the unserved majority by 2020.


Financial Access 2009: Measuring Access to Financial Services around the World: Financial Access 2009 reports on new data from a survey of financial regulators in 139 countries.




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Does Microcredit Squeeze out the Moneylender?
By Rich Rosenberg
"How can an MFI (or a banking supervisor) tell whether this is happening before it turns into a repayment crisis? I don’t see an easy answer..."
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