Lehigh Microfinance Program & Club

From Lehigh Business magazine, Issue 7, Fall 2021 Bringing the Heat (and Light): Todd Watkins is tracking the diversification of microfinance. By Margie Peterson Microfinance–the practice of giving small loans, savings accounts and other financial services to low-income individuals or groups who wouldn’t otherwise have access to such services–gained international attention when Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in developing countries in 2006....

Tracking the Diversification of Microfinance From Lehigh Business magazine, Issue 7, Fall 2021 Bringing the Heat (and Light): Todd Watkins is tracking the diversification of microfinance. By Margie Peterson Microfinance–the practice of giving…

Co-authored by me and Shannon Mudd, director of the Microfinance and Impact Investing Initiative at Haverford College. Second in a blog series—based on a global workshop at Lehigh University's Martindale Center—published by Accion International's Center for Financial Inclusion. Digitally Reshaping Inclusive Financial Services in the Wake of COVID-19 Other blogs from the Lehigh global workshop here.

Digitally Reshaping Inclusive Financial Services in the Wake of COVID-19 Co-authored by me and Shannon Mudd, director of the Microfinance and Impact Investing Initiative at Haverford College. Second in a blog series—based on a global workshop at Lehigh University’…

Congrats to Rangan Varadan, CBE PhD alum - his microfinance startup MicroGraam covered by Times of India http://is.gd/TOW78N

Microfinance companies take over industry with low cost loans - The Times of India Amidst the regulatory upheaval and scramble for fresh capital that defines India's microfinance sector, a new breed of micro lenders are quietly challenging the conventional norms of the industry with an internet-based funding model and low-cost loans.