Grameen Bank, launched in Bangladesh in 1976 by an economics professor named Muhammad Yunus, popularized the idea of giving poor people tiny loans to launch businesses. The bank has helped inspire ...

Grameen Bank is a shining global model of what it means to empower women -- even, and especially, poor rural women ...

Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, joins us for an extended interview on microfinance, the Grameen Bank, and how five men own more wealth than ...

Grameen Bank, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning company, inched closer to state control after ministers in Bangladesh approved a draft bill that hands the central bank greater powers to regulate the ...

The country’s central bank and courts have ruled that Yunus must immediately leave Grameen, on an absurdly ageist technicality: he is older than 60, hence disqualified to run a bank (a matter ...

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, on Friday said it is providing $20 million (about Rs 170 crore) equity investment to ...

The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission Baramulla and Bandipora has ruled in favour of a local shopkeeper in a case related to the non-settlement of an insurance claim following the ...

The people running these programs prefer to avoid comparisons with the Grameen Bank; many have abandoned the hope of achieving financial self-sufficiency.

Yunus opened his speech by stating that his success with Grameen Bank and his pioneering of the concept of microcredit was not the result of intelligence because the idea came easily to him. "I did ...

A trend reversal is on the horizon in the MFI sector and is expected to play out over the next couple of quarters, with the ...

The three companies released business updates for the first quarter of the financial year 2026 (April 2025 to June 2025).