The MIX Market is the global information exchange for the microfinance industry. This online portal strives to facilitate exchange and investment flows, promote transparency, and improve reporting standards in the microfinance industry.
CGAP is a resource center for the entire microfinance industry. It incubates and supports new ideas, innovative products, cutting-edge technology, novel mechanisms for delivering financial services, and concrete solutions to the challenges of expanding microfinance.
The Microfinance Gateway is a portal developed for and by members of the microfinance industry. It contains the largest online library on microfinance, provides by-the-minute news, lists job opportunities, hosts discussion groups on various industry topics, and highlights emerging issues.
MicroCapital is a news and research initiative on international microfinance investment. This online resource takes a business orientation to providing honest, candid information on microfinance as an emerging investment class.
CMEF is the first membership organization bringing together the leading private entities that make equity investments in microfinance institutions in the developing world. The aim of the Council is to spearhead the advancement of the field of equity investment in microfinance through a number of initiatives and research projects. The results of the research are made available through publications. The first publication, Characteristics of Equity Investment in Microfinance, examines the state of equity investment in microfinance institutions today.
MicroRate is a microfinance rating agency specializing in the evaluation of microfinance institutions (MFIs). Evaluations allow lenders and investors to measure risk and thereby help to create transparency. MicroRate has analyzed over 200 microfinance institutions in Latin America and Africa.
M-CRIL is a microfinance rating agency with over 275 ratings and assessments of MFIs across 13 countries.
Planet Rating carries out independent evaluation and rating missions on MFIs. It disseminates the results of these missions, and provides customized evaluation and training sessions.
