Reflection: Coordinating Responses to Microfinance Solvency Challenges
The reverberating effects of COVID-19 continue to pose challenges for segments of the microfinance sector. Here are three areas where a coordinated response among microfinance stakeholders will be important going forward.
COVID-19 and Microfinance: How Digitization Helps Build Resilience
When done right, with a focus on creating value for customers, digitization can improve the resilience of the people microfinance providers serve.
MFI Digitalization: How Can DFIs and IFIs Contribute?
From funding digital innovation to boosting digital literacy, here are some ways that development finance institutions and international financial institutions can accelerate the digitization of microfinance in Africa.
COVID-19 and Microfinance: Managing Trouble with Restructuring
What have microfinance institutions and their investors accomplished so far in their restructuring deals? What have they learned? And how can they improve readiness for the next crisis?
COVID-19 and Microfinance: What’s Next for Equity Investors?
Access to funding has been a top priority for microfinance providers during COVID-19 . Debt investors have played a key role in supporting providers through the crisis. Now, as providers focus on recovery and growth, equity capital is needed too.
The Menace of COVID-19 for Microfinance
FINCA Impact Finance President and CEO Andrée Simon explains what’s needed for the most vulnerable microfinance institutions and their customers to overcome the pandemic.