Just outside of Kampala, Regina buys, cleans, cooks and sells roasted chickens every evening to commuters on their way home. Her business was made possible by a $180 loan from BRAC, an international ...

Brac has become the only organization in Bangladesh to receive the prestigious Client Protection Certification (CPC) Gold, in recognition of its commitment to ensuring maximum protection for clients.

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) in Bangladesh recently entered into a transformative partnership with Brac, the trailblazer in the microfinance industry. The signing ...

TORONTO, ONTARIO. – November 25, 2008 – The MasterCard Foundation and BRAC announced today a $19.6 million program to expand financial services to the poor across Uganda, benefiting approximately 2 ...

The poor are a diverse group with diverse livelihoods, needs and potential, which change over time due to lifecycle, new opportunities and external shocks. This diverse and dynamic reality of poor ...

BRAC Liberia Microfinance Company Ltd (BLMCL) is proud to be in the top spot in the first-ever 60 Decibels Microfinance Index. The index report shows the comparative social performance of 72 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A consortium led by Standard Chartered of the UK on Sunday signed a $55m (£26.8m, €37.6m) loan to BRAC, ...

Bangladesh is well known in the microfinance industry for the scale of microfinance coverage. Very few villages are not in the programme of one or other service provider. In most cases, though by no ...

Borrowers have accused NGOs of charging unfairly high interest, demanding rapid payback, and reporting debts to the police The world’s largest NGO has been forced to conduct an internal review of a ...

SMILING and dapper, Fazle Hasan Abed hardly seems like a revolutionary. A Bangladeshi educated in Britain, an admirer of Shakespeare and Joyce, and a former accountant at Shell, he is the son of a ...