New Partnerships for Innovation in Microfinance

Pillar II focuses on collaboration among microfinance providers, governments, private investors and technology companies which help microfinance institutions to integrate new technologies into their business models, reducing cost and increasing outreach to clients.

The Importance of New Partnerships.- New Partnerships for Innovation in Microfinance.- New Partnerships for Sustainability and Outreach. Partnerships to Leverage Private Investment: Raising MFI Equity Through Microfinance Investment Funds.- Market Transparency: The Role of Specialised MFI Rating Agencies.- MFI Equity: An Investment Opportunity for the Broader Public?- Microfinance and Economic Growth - Reflections on Indian Experience.- Microfinance Investments and IFRS: The Fair Value Challenge. Technology Partnerships to Scale up Outreach: Remittance Money Transfers, Microfinance and Financial Integration: Of Credo, Cruxes, and Convictions.- Remittances and MFIs: Issues and Lessons from Latin America.- Using Technology to Build Inclusive Financial Systems.- Information Technology Innovations That Extend Rural Microfinance Outreach.- Banking the Unbanked: Issues in Designing Technology to Deliver Financial Services to the Poor.- Can Credit Scoring Help Attract Profit-Minded Investors to Microcredit?- Credit Scoring: Why Scepticism Is Justified. Partnerships to Mobilise Savings and Manage Risk: Micropensions: Old Age Security for the Poor?- Cash, Children or Kind? Developing Old Age Security for Low-Income People in Africa.- Microinsurance: Providing Profitable Risk Management Possibilities for the Low-Income Market.- Securitisation: A Funding Alternative for Microfinance Institutions.- Reducing Barriers to Microfinance Investments: The Role of Structured Finance