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It’s been ten years since we launched Grassroots Capital Management PBC to build on the work of the pioneering Gray Ghost Microfinance Fund of funds in engaging private investors with the global [...]

The closing plenary, “Microfinance: positioning ourselves for the next decade,” will bring together leaders from the microfinance and broader impact investing community to extract key [...]

Should proponents of microfinance claim victory and go home? Has its image bottomed out? What can microfinance still accomplish? The new paper, “Microfinance: Revolution or [...]

Social Performance Task Force will host a webinar on responsible IPOs – Tuesday May 23, 10:00am EST. Following up on last year’s FIEC-sponsored paper, “How to IPO Successfully [...]

The final CFI post, “FinTech in Microfinance: In Search of the High Tech – High Touch Unicorn”, has been added to the four-part blog series examining the role of microfinance in creating social [...]

Grassroots helped organize a gathering of 32 microfinance and impact investing industry leaders from around the world March 30 –April 1 hosted by the Martindale Center at Lehigh University and [...]

We are pleased to recognize the achievements of two portfolio companies of Grassroots’ partner Caspian Impact Investment Advisers: Equitas Small Finance Bank and Sonata Finance. Equitas [...]

Will microfinance respond and adapt to the evolving financial inclusion landscape, or is it yesterday’s solution, to be supplanted by more cutting edge, “impactful” initiatives? These are the [...]

Initial public offerings (IPOs) have played an important role in both scaling the financial inclusion industry as well as catalyzing discussions that led to necessary improvements in the [...]

Initial public offerings (IPOs) are widely viewed as markers of commercial success. However, in the financial inclusion industry, IPOs are sometimes viewed with suspicion, if not alarm. This [...]