Once just a ride-sharing company, Grab has been expanding its portfolio to include mobile and peer-to-peer payments and now has added insurance and microfinancing services to the mix. The Southeast ...

Advocates say that Bitcoin could democratize finance. Case in point, the founder of peer-to-peer lending service ProudSource Joe McKinney is building a company that aims to connect underbanked ...

Koh Taradash and other leads for the Pinewood Microfinancing Program have loaned over $1,000 to entrepreneurs abroad. Courtesy Koh Taradash. Pinewood School junior Koh Taradash first learned about ...

Venture capital may be the hot, sexy funding route that helps a few businesses and grabs a lot of headlines every year. But it turns out another type of funding works out better for most entrepreneurs ...

This field, known as “microfinance,” has recently become immensely popular, inspiring similar movements across the nation. In 2009, New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof famously said, ...

MIAMI — Do an Internet search for microcredit, and images of colorfully dressed women in Africa, South Asia and Central America pop up. But the international trend that began more than three decades ...

A documentary film on a grass-roots method of combating global poverty, made with the help of 2007 Senior High graduate Stan Parker, will have its Montana premiere Thursday night in Billings. The free ...

MANILA, Philippines — The existence of microfinancing institutions provides a financing system for poor communities to establish small and social enterprises or finance the basic needs of their ...