Microfinance Focus is an English-language Microfinance

Microfinance

Microfinance is the provision of financial services to low-income clients or solidarity lending groups including consumers and the self-employed, who traditionally lack access to banking and related services....

 International Online News Media

News media

The news media are those elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.These include print media , broadcast news , and more recently the Internet .-Etymology:A medium is a carrier of something...

 and publication company based in Bangalore, India. Started in July 2006, Microfinance Focus publishes news and articles daily and is considered as a resource centre for the Microfinance sector globally.Mr. Vikash is the Founder of Microfinance Focus. Microfinance Focus has also been conferred “Microfinance Community Knowledge Promoter Award 2007 for Outstanding Community Support” by “Solution Exchange (A wing of UN, India) in the year 2007.

The Purpose

Microfinance Focus was set up to provide a daily news source and analysis on Microfinance

Microfinance

Microfinance is the provision of financial services to low-income clients or solidarity lending groups including consumers and the self-employed, who traditionally lack access to banking and related services....

 current affairs. Today the world is defined by the term 'Information Age' and a niche media can play an important role by plugging the knowledge gap, via free access to news and information and to generate discussion among key stakeholders. Several Microfinance Focus articles have been cited by international media and blogs including:
IBtimes
Huffington post
The Washington Post
Guardian
Devex
Wall Street Journal
CGDEV
CGAP Technology Blog
Yesmagazine

Articles of Microfinance Focus have also been widely cited in many research papers.
COMMERCIAL MICROFINANCE AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: A CRITIQUE
DFID - Social health insurance Protocol
USAID-A Guarantee to Root Capital Report
Microfinance Goes Public: The SKS Initial Public Offering

Activities

Microfinance Focus provides daily news, interviews, analysis and reports on the Microfinance sector. The website is Microfinance Focus’s main platform for communication. It publishes News about the sector on a daily basis, under topics ranging from outlook of social investment, to risk management

Risk management

Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities...

, to microinsurance

Microinsurance

Microinsurance is a term increasingly used to refer to insurance characterized by low premium and low caps or low coverage limits, sold as part of atypical risk-pooling and marketing arrangements, and designed to service low-income people and businesses not served by typical social or commercial...

, to incorporation of information systems ICT

ICT

-Science and technology:*Information and communication technologies** Information and communication technologies for development** Information and communication technologies in education** Information and communication technologies for environmental sustainability...

 or MIS

MIS

The abbreviation MIS may refer to:*Miś , a 1980 Polish film directed by Stanisław Bareja*mis, ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 three-letter language code for uncoded languages-Biology:...

 in NGOs, Mobile banking

Mobile Banking

Mobile banking is a term used for performing balance checks, account transactions, payments, credit applications and other banking transactions through a mobile device such as a mobile phone or Personal Digital Assistant . The earliest mobile banking services were offered over SMS...

, loan repayment and liquidity crisis. The online publication has also interviewed several Microfinance leaders including Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Peace Prize...

, Princess Maxima, Vikram Akula

Vikram Akula

Vikram Akula is the founder and former chairperson of SKS Microfinance, an organization that offers microloans and insurance to poor women in impoverished areas of India. He stepped down as the SKS chief in November 2011.-Early life:...

,Sam Daley Harris, John Hatch

John Hatch

Dr. John Keith Hatch is an American economic development expert and a pioneer in modern day microfinance. He is the founder of FINCA International and the Rural Development Services , and is famous for innovating village banking, arguably the world’s most widely-imitated microfinance...

, Nachiket Mor

Nachiket Mor

Nachiket Mor was the Chairman of the ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth. Now is working at SughaVazhvu He is considered a a financial services expert, and was a former deputy managing director of ICICI Bank.-Early life:...

etc.