Integrating digital payments in the microfinance sector can save work hours, enhance productivity, and simplify instalment and deposit collection, experts said at a seminar.

In Bangladesh, savings groups have been uplifting thousands of women from poverty.

Ever since the 1980s-90s, our typical perception of a rural village has been changing.

Why would microfinance institutions agree to use flexible repayment strategies? Simply because delivering a new product opens a new market, allowing the institutions to reach people who have irregular income flows, while maintaining their profit share.