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Thanks to a group like PlaNet Finance, microfinance has directly contributed to reducing poverty. ... But some 400 to 500 million people in need are still unable to access microcredit. They need our support, and those who seek to develop new and innovative ways to promote microfinance, like PlaNet Finance, offer an important means to provide that support. I wish PlaNet all success in its worthy efforts.

—Shashi Tharoor Under-Secretary General of the United Nations

All the news

2009.8.26

Arthur D. Little sees strong demand for insurance at the BOP

2009.8.26

Bright outlook for microcredit in Malaysia

2009.7.21

Report shows risks faced by industry

2009.7.21

Filipino Microfinance Groups Agree to Promote Client Protection

2009.7.21

IFC Guarantees $5.9m Standard Chartered Loan to Faulu Kenya

2009.6.19

Leapfrog Fund Raises $44m for Microinsurance

2009.6.2

PlaNet Guarantee Increases Capital

2009.5.24

PlaNet Finance launches the first microfinance program in Oman

2009.5.22

PlaNet Finance creates full-service mobile bank for the poor in Philippines

2009.5.19

Improved microfinance website launched

2009.5.18

60% of MFIs report clients have trouble repaying loans

2009.5.14

Assets of the top 10 microfinance investment funds grew by 32 percent in 2008

2009. 4.30

Micro-pensions in India

2009. 4.9

Microfinance benchmarking report shows high growth and efficiency in Asia

2009.4.3

Mobile-based micro-finance banking in the Philippines

2009.4.2

BlueOrchard Reports 4 to 8% Returns for 2008

2009.3.20

PF and Pfizer Expanding access to healthcare in China

2009.3.30

NPLs in Cambodia expected to rise to 1% of portfolios

2009.3.14

Allianz Life Indonesia Quadruples Micro-Client Base

2009.3.11

Latest survey on the impact of the global crisis in microfinance

2009.3.11

Microfinance Leaders Endorse Principles of Client Protection

2009.3.11

The number of microfinance clients reaches 155 million

2009.3.6

New microfinance fund raised ‚Ç¨22 million in 2008

2009.2.25

CGAP report on microfinance interest rates

2009.2.24

TIAA-CREF to invest $40 million in microfinance

2009.2.23

Grameen Foundation releases social performance guidelines

2009.2.17

Microplace offering 5% return on peer-to-peer microfinance loans

2009.2.12

RENDEV receives the European Union ‚Äú2009 Sustainable Energy Award‚Äù

2009.2.5

PlaNet Finance to advise new microfinance fund

2009.2.04

Microfinance in the US

2009.2.04

Micro-ATM machines in India

2009.2.03

JP Morgan develops benchmarks for valuing microfinance equity investments

2009.1.29

ADB Institute and PFJ collaborate on localizing microfinance training for Vietnam and Mongolia

2009.1.27

Flow of money to microfinance funds increasing despite crisis

2009.1.26

The number of microfinance clients reaches 155 million

2009.1.14

Creating a Sustainable Microcredit Model in South Korea

2009.1.14

ADB says Cambodian MFIs weathering the financial storm

2009.1.13

Hillary Clinton endorses microfinance in Senate testimony

2009.1.07

Upward trend forecast for peer-to-peer microfinance lending in 2009

2009.1.05

Microfinance taking root in Iraq

2008.12.17

India: Microfinance Institutions Emerge as Next Asset Class

2008.12.12

PF to offer microinsurance in Africa and Latin America

2008.12.10

Cambodian MFIs say the sector is insulated from the financial crisis

2008.12.9

Microfinance in Thailand resilient to financial crisis

2008.12.3

Time Magazine: Microfinance sector stable despite global financial crisis

2008.11.20

Microfinance weathering the global financial storm so far

2008.11.14

Cashpor India Reads Fingerprints over Mobile Phones

2008.11.13

Standard Chartered Bank focuses on microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa

2008.11.2

Microfinance in China continues to expand

2008.10.28

Gates Grants $1.7m to PlaNet Finance, Orange for Mobile Banking Project

2008.10.22

Leading microfinance investors sign on to Consumer Protection Principles

2008.10.21

Microfinance and ICT Conference in Delhi, India

2008.10.20

PlaNet Finance announces MicroFix, a unique currency risk fund

2008.10.12

What Microfinance can teach Wall Street

2008.10.6

Microcredit Lenders Emerging in China

2008.10.1

Shinsei Bank renews support for PlaNet Finance Japan

2008.9.25

Toyota Tsusho Corporation supports Renewable Energy for Development (RENDEV) Project

2008.9.19

Merrill Lynch Japan renews its support for PFJ's Microfinance Career Kick-Start Internship Program

2008.9.4

Mobile Banking: Where no bank has gone before

2008.9.3

Association of Women in Finance extends their endorsement of PlaNet Finance Japan

2008.8.4

PlaNet Finance and PlaNet Finance Japan launch Asian Technical Hub

2008.7.31

Handbook for the analysis of the governance of microfinance institutions

2008.7.30

President of Indonesia opens the Asia-Pacific Regional Micro Credit Summit 2008

2008.7.28

PlaNet Finance arranges US$1 million loan to Vision Fund Cambodia

2008.7.25

Vietnam: 85% of rural poor denied bank loans

2008.6.24

Gradatim launches India's first Micro-Insurance Platform - MF-Insure

2008.6.16

China: Microcredit firms may debut in Zhejiang

2008.6.6

PlaNet Finance Japan presents on financing issues at the ADB's Asia Clean Energy Forum

2008.4.21

Research on the near-term challenges in the microfinance sector

2008.4.1

Rabobank Japan supports PlaNet Finance Japan

2007.9.28

Association of Women in Finance support PlaNet Finance Japan

2007.9.5

Merrill Lynch Japan supports PFJ's Microfinance Career Kick-Start Internship Program

2007.6.3

ADB Institute and PFJ collaborate on localizing microfinance training for Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos

2007.5.11

Japan's first international conference on microfinance was organized by PlaNet Finance Japan on May 10

2007.2.26

PlaNet Finance Japan launches its blog site, written by its interns in Bangladesh

2007.2.22

Cash flow management tool for Sunduq MFI of Afghanistan

2007.2.8

PFJ Arranges loan to Credit MFI of Cambodia

2006.12.20

PlaNet University: the first Japanese language microfinance training program

2006.7.24

PlaNet Finance Japan granted NGO status by Tokyo Metropolitan Government

2005.10.11

Shinsei Bank supports the creation of PlaNet Finance Japan