Aided by regulatory guardrails and a strong focus on underwriting, the credit quality of new disbursements has improved and ...

Public sector financial institutions continued to dominate the bond market in 2025. The top five issuers during the year were ...

Hyderabad: Minister for Agriculture and Co-operation Tummala Nageswara Rao praised the NABARD’s Telangana Regional Office for ...

Gold loans exploded 128.5% YoY to Rs 3.38L cr by Oct 2025 per RBI, outpacing credit growth with 4x scale in 3 yrs. Rural/semi ...

The regulator introduced a consolidated framework strengthening board oversight, audit committees, market conduct, and regulatory compliance for AIFIs, with immediate ...

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has approved a merger involving two rural banks and the voluntary surrender of another rural bank’s license, underscoring the continued consolidation across the ...

Credit Bank Plc Chief Executive Officer Betty Korir (right) shakes hands with IFAD-FFR Remittances and Inclusive Digital ...

The team at The University of Missouri Rural and Farm Finance Policy Analysis Center (RaFF) reviewed 21 seed vendor financing programs.

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While survey results indicate that rural bankers remain pessimistic about economic growth for their area over the next six ...

Rural and Community Banks are rewriting Ghana’s financial story, bringing banking to the farms, markets, and villages where universal banks rarely go. Once dismissed as “too small” or “too weak,” ...

In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 35A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, and all other provisions / laws enabling the Reserve Bank of India (‘RBI’) in this regard, RBI being satisfied ...