A Bangladesh court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Nobel laureate and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus for failing to appear on charges he violated labor laws. The Dhaka court ordered ...

Microcredit is a great idea with a problem: the bank that made it famous. Grameen Bank, launched in Bangladesh in 1976 by an economics professor named Muhammad Yunus, popularized the idea of giving ...

Grameen America is upping its game in impact investing. That’s potentially especially good news for low-income women looking for microloans to jump-start a business. The microfinance organization just ...

At this stage it appears the government of Bangladesh has been successful in its campaign to oust Mohammed Yunus from his post as chairman of Grameen Bank. The future of Grameen Bank is now in ...

The case of Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize-winning founder of the Grameen Bank, gets curiouser and curiouser. Earlier today, Grameen announced that Bangladesh’s Central Bank had fired Yunus, ...

At the Clinton Global Initiative, FORBES was a fly in a conference room, attending a special session on: Profiting from the Poor? A Discussion on Microfinance IPOs. Vikram Akula, founder of SKS ...

BUSES and trucks barrel down Mirpur Road, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, blasting their horns and leaving trails of black smoke to settle on rickshaws and oxcarts. By the side of the road a high brick wall ...

Miscreants set fire to Grameen Bank office at Sharshadi Bazar in Feni Sadar upazila in the early hours today (18 December). The fire damaged three motorbikes and furniture on the office premises.

1. (C) Nobel Peace Laureate and Grameen Bank Chairman Muhammad Yunus asked that the USG assist him in urging Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to change a long-standing rule that gives the Government of ...

It's pretty safe to say that three years ago no one could have predicted that one of the few financial institutions to be opening new branches and expanding lending in America would be a Bangladeshi ...

Muhammad Yunus (MY): The very common misconception is, Grameen is an NGO, but it is not an NGO because it is a commercial organisation. It has owners and all the features of a business. Grameen Bank ...

HE IS probably Bangladesh's most celebrated citizen. Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel peace prize, founded Grameen Bank in 1983 to provide tiny loans to poor rural women. Grameen became a ...