While the financial markets around the world melted down, the women micro-borrowers gave microfinance investors healthy returns, just as they had promised. And why are a majority of our investors looking into impact investing at a time when the markets are in turmoil? Impact investing: Standing on the shoulders of microfinanceAs an impact investing leader and microfinance veteran, I can personally attest to how impact investing has grown on the shoulders of microfinance. Rather than a niche subset of finance, impact investing is becoming a movement to change financial markets so that they give value to the most vulnerable in society. Coming full circle, the financial markets and these resilient women meet again.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 22, 2020 11:48 UTC