Forbes — The 50 Top Microfinance Institutions ( an old article)

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Forbes — The 50 Top Microfinance Institutions







Microfinance
The 50 Top Microfinance Institutions
Matthew Swibel 12.20.07, 6:00 PM ET

Rank Name Country Scale Efficiency Risk Returns 1 ASA Bangladesh 14 83 56 40 2 Bandhan (Society and NBFC) India 108 49 42 1 3 Banco do Nordeste Brazil 46 27 213 25 4 Fundación Mundial de la Mujer Bucaramanga Colombia 58 72 193 1 5 FONDEP Micro-Crédit Morocco 119 26 196 1 6 Amhara Credit and Savings Institution Ethiopia 56 126 118 42 7 Banco Compartamos, S.A., Institución de Banca Múltiple Mexico 15 24 295 11 8 Association Al Amana for the Promotion of Micro-Enterprises Morocco Morocco 17 212 133 1 9 Fundación Mundo Mujer Popayán Colombia 53 181 141 1 10 Fundación WWB Colombia - Cali Colombia 27 206 155 4 11 Consumer Credit Union 'Economic Partnership' Russia 82 300 19 1 12 Fondation Banque Populaire pour le Micro-Credit Morocco 59 126 219 1 13 Microcredit Foundation of India India 75 142 7 185 14 EKI Bosnia and Herzegovina 66 102 242 1 15 Saadhana Microfin Society India 263 79 73 1 16 Jagorani Chakra Foundation Bangladesh 136 176 128 1 17 Grameen Bank Bangladesh 8 280 100 62 18 Partner Bosnia and Herzegovina 64 169 230 1 19 Grameen Koota India 209 106 156 1 20 Caja Municipal de Ahorro y Crédito de Cusco Peru 48 99 222 119 21 Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee Bangladesh 10 159 126 205 22 AgroInvest Serbia 84 195 222 1 23 Caja Municipal de Ahorro y Crédito de Trujillo Peru 20 163 220 101 23 Sharada's Women's Association for Weaker Section India 229 207 55 13 24 MIKROFIN Banja Luka Bosnia and Herzegovina 60 240 205 1 25 Khan Bank (Agricultural Bank of Mongolia LLP) Mongolia 19 149 280 59 26 INECO Bank Armenia 96 173 202 39 27 Fondation Zakoura Morocco 51 268 194 1 28 Dakahlya Businessmen's Association for Community Development Egypt 200 215 102 1 29 Asmitha Microfin Ltd. India 80 254 73 111 30 Credi Fe Desarrollo Microempresarial S.A. Ecuador 28 252 206 34 31 Dedebit Credit and Savings Institution Ethiopia 50 246 80 154 32 MI-BOSPO Tuzla Bosnia and Herzegovina 128 120 283 1 33 Fundacion Para La Promocion y el Desarrollo Nicaragua 173 89 171 100 34 Kashf Foundation Pakistan 123 194 219 1 35 Shakti Foundation for Disadvantaged Women Bangladesh 170 221 151 1 36 enda inter-arabe Tunisia 198 90 257 1 37 Kazakhstan Loan Fund Kazakhstan 120 118 320 1 38 Integrated Development Foundation Bangladesh 300 134 140 1 39 Microcredit Organization Sunrise Bosnia and Herzegovina 114 103 341 17 40 FINCA - ECU Ecuador 125 138 264 54 41 Caja Municipal de Ahorro y Crédito de Arequipa Peru 23 126 220 215 42 Crédito con Educación Rural Bolivia 135 152 298 1 43 BESA Fund Albania 109 135 345 1 44 SKS Microfinance Private Limited India 61 395 141 1 45 Development and Employment Fund Jordan 83 388 135 1 46 Programas para la Mujer - Peru Peru 292 82 242 1 47 Kreditimi Rural i Kosoves LLC (formerly Rural Finance Project of Kosovo) Kosovo 213 158 247 1 48 BURO, formerly BURO Tangail Bangladesh 137 207 186 91 49 Opportunity Bank A.D. Podgorica Serbia 49 234 319 23 50 Sanasa Development Bank Sri Lanka 86 206 93 241

Forbes' first-ever list of the World's Top 50 Microfinance Institutions were chosen from a field of 641 micro-credit providers. The list was prepared by the Microfinance Information Exchange ( www.themix.org) under the direction of Forbes magazine. To qualify, the institutions must have made available their audited financials and must have passed review by a Forbes panel of advisers.

This sortable table gives the rank (out of 641) for the top institutions according to scale, which is based on the size of their gross loan portfolio; efficiency, which considers operating expense and the cost per borrower as a percent of the gross national income per capita of their country of operation; risk, which looks at the quality of their loan portfolios, measured as the percent of the portfolio at risk greater than 30 days; and return, which is measured as a combination of return on equity and return on assets. Each category is equally weighted for an institution's overall ranking.

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