MFI regulation and supervision

MFI regulation and supervision
Author: David Onditi
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2019-06-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3668964998

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A+, University of Nairobi (Main Campus), course: International Business, language: English, abstract: There are a number of key principles of microfinance regulations. However, empirical research indicates that some key principles such as governance, and capital adequacy should be the main focus of the microfinance regulation and supervision. CGAP (2012) developed the Consensus guideline for the supervision and regulation of the microfinance institutions (MFIs). CGAP indicated that the MFIs should have a higher capital adequacy ratios as compared to the commercial banks since the microloans issued by the MFIs have insufficient security and the borrowers main motivation to repay the loans is the expectation that they would receive more loans. The MFIs are at a higher risk of loan delinquency contagion that can lead to a significant increase in the de-capitalization. Berger agreed with the above view by stating that MFIs need to have minimum capital adequacy as a means of helping the organizations to overcome the volatilities. The researcher thus concurs that capital adequacy should be a key principle in the regulation and supervision of the MFIs due to the volatilities associated with low collateral quality in the MFI loans, and increased risk of loan repayment delinquency. However, the principle should only apply to the MFIs that offer uncollateralized loans or in the cases where the security is not adequate to effectively cover the loan.

Microfinance Handbook

Microfinance Handbook
Author: Joanna Ledgerwood
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1998-12-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821384317

The purpose of the 'Microfinance Handbook' is to bring together in a single source guiding principles and tools that will promote sustainable microfinance and create viable institutions.

Financial Performance and Outreach

Financial Performance and Outreach
Author: Robert J. Cull
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2006
Genre: Bank loans
ISBN: 0601241630

Microfinance contracts have proven able to secure high rates of loan repayment in the face of limited liability and information asymmetries, but high repayment rates have not translated easily into profits for most microbanks. Profitability, though, is at the heart of the promise that microfinance can deliver poverty reduction while not relying on ongoing subsidy. The authors examine why this promise remains unmet for most institutions. Using a data set with unusually high quality financial information on 124 institutions in 49 countries, they explore the patterns of profitability, loan repayment, and cost reduction. The authors find that institutional design and orientation matter substantially. Lenders that do not use group-based methods to overcome incentive problems experience weaker portfolio quality and lower profit rates when interest rates are raised substantially. For these individual-based lenders, one key to achieving profitability is investing more heavily in staff costs-a finding consistent with the economics of information but contrary to the conventional wisdom that profitability is largely a function of minimizing cost.

Cooperative Financial Institutions

Cooperative Financial Institutions
Author: Carlos E. Cuevas
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821366858

A thorough inquiry into the distinctive features of cooperative financial institutions that should inform an appropriate legal, regulatory and supervisory framework.

Banking and Micro-finance Regulation and Supervision

Banking and Micro-finance Regulation and Supervision
Author: Kenneth Kaoma Mwenda
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1581126050

This book examines contemporary legal and policy issues facing banking and micro-finance supervision and regulation in Zambia. The book sets out an interdisciplinary exposition of the law. It provides an interface of financial services law and practice. Relevant aspects of business management and economic theory are examined as well. The book attempts to permeate intellectual spheres that have not been explored in depth before. In essence, this is not a simple textbook on the introductory aspects of a particular field of law, as is often the case with many books that have titles such as "Introduction to Business Law" or "Fundamentals of Tort Law", and so forth. By contrast, the book breaks new ground in the area of financial services regulation. Indeed, a law in context approach is presented, giving added value to the field of knowledge in the book.

Confronting Microfinance

Confronting Microfinance
Author: Milford Bateman
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1565494377

Incorporates global perspective but focuses on southeastern Europe, a key arena for microfinance and microcredit programs --

Transforming Microfinance Institutions

Transforming Microfinance Institutions
Author: Joanna Ledgerwood
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2006-08-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821366165

In response to a clear need by low-income people to gain access to the full range of financial services including savings, a growing number of microfinance NGOs are seeking guidelines to transform from credit-focused microfinance organizations to regulated deposit-taking financial intermediaries. In response to this trend, this book presents a practical 'how-to' manual for MFIs to develop the capacity to become licensed and regulated to mobilize deposits from the public. 'Transforming Microfinance Institutions' provides guidelines for regulators to license and regulate microfinance providers, and for transforming MFIs to meet the demands of two major new stakeholders regulators and shareholders. As such, it focuses on developing the capacity of NGO MFIs to mobilize and intermediate voluntary savings. Drawing from worldwide experience, it outlines how to manage the transformation process and address major strategic and operational issues inherent in transformation including competitive positioning, business planning, accessing capital and shareholders, and how to 'transform' the MFI's human resources, financial management, MIS, internal controls, and branch operations. Case studies then provide examples of developing a new regulatory tier for microfinance, and how a Ugandan NGO transformed to become a licensed financial intermediary. This book will be invaluable to regulators and microfinance NGOs contemplating institutional transformation and will be of tremendous use to donors and technical support agencies supporting MFIs in their transformation.

The Future of Microfinance

The Future of Microfinance
Author: Ira W. Lieberman
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0815737645

A major source of financing for the poor and no longer a niche industry Over the past four decades, microfinance—the provision of loans, savings, and insurance to small businesses and entrepreneurs shut out of traditional capital markets—has grown from a niche service in Bangladesh and a few other countries to a significant global source of financing. Some 200 million people globally now receive support from microfinance institutions, with most of the recipients in the developing world. In the beginning, much of the microfinance industry was managed by non-governmental organizations, but today the majority of these institutions are commercial and regulated by governments, and they provide safe places for the poor to save, as well as offering much-needed capital and other financial services. Now out of infancy, the microfinance industry faces major challenges, including its ability to deal with mobile banking and other technology and concerns that some markets are now over-saturated with microfinance. How the industry deals with these and other challenges will determine whether it will continue to grow or will be subsumed within the larger global financial sector. This book is based on the results of a workshop at Lehigh University among thirty-four leaders in the industry. The editors, working with contributions from more than a dozen leading authorities in the field, tell the important story of how microfinance developed, how it has met the needs of hundreds of millions of people, and they address key questions about how it can continue to meet those needs in the future.

Rethinking Bank Regulation

Rethinking Bank Regulation
Author: James R. Barth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2008-05-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521709309

This volume presents a new database on bank regulation in over 150 countries. It offers a comprehensive cross-country assessment of the impact of bank regulation on the operation of banks and assesses the validity of the Basel Committee's influential approach to bank regulation.

Access to Financial Services in Brazil

Access to Financial Services in Brazil
Author: Anjali Kumar
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 698
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780821357163

There is an increasing awareness that access to financial services can contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction. This study focuses on the delivery of financial services in Brazil, one of the world's most important emerging financial markets. It examines different aspects of financial service provision, and explores approaches to address problems of financial exclusion. Topics discussed include: microfinance schemes; private banking; rural finance systems; institutional infrastructure; and the role of government policy.