Community lending and borrowing apps are emerging as powerful tools for strengthening local economies. These platforms bridge ...

The regulator issued “needs to improve” ratings to First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Lorain, Ohio, and United Trust ...

VSLAs are part of informal financial services, where members pool money regularly—daily, weekly, bi-monthly, or monthly—and later lend it at low interest rates to support businesses and improve ...

NEWBURYPORT — Lindsay St. Pierre recently joined the Institution for Savings as vice president of commercial lending ... to support businesses in the community. Before joining the Institution ...

Oscar Perry Abello’s new book, “The Banks We Deserve,” shows how allowing communities to tap into banks’ money-creation power ...

Approximately 450 forest-dependent communities across four southeastern counties of Liberia have generated an impressive income of 2.2 million Liberian Dollars within eleven months. This achievement ...

"Microfinance in India has come a long way since its inception in the 1970s, offering millions of women a pathway out of ...

Yet a recent study my research team conducted suggests that a simple, powerful solution exists: community savings and lending groups. Such groups, formed with support from nongovernmental ...

THORChain announced that members of its DAO approved its proposal to convert approximately $200 million of defaulted debt into equity.

New Zealand's housing crisis disproportionately affects Māori in rural areas where healthy homes are in short supply and collective land ownership p ...