RIM is a collaborative market strengthening initiative aimed at promoting and supporting the implementation of stronger, more appropriate risk management in the microfinance sector.
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Technical Paper
RIM Graduation Model for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs)
EN / FR / AR / ES
Position Paper
Toward a Consistent and Appropriate Risk Management Framework for MFIs
EN
Case Study
Leveraging Risk Management for Future Growth: UNTU Microfinance
EN
RIM GM Assessment Tool (basic version)
for deposit-taking MFIs
EN / FR / AR / ES
RIM GM Assessment Tool (basic version)
for non-deposit-taking MFIs
EN / FR / AR / ES
State of the Industry
Meanwhile, the rapid growth of digital finance is creating a whole new category of risks that are largely unknown. As always, lessons will be learned through hardship.
Daniel Rozas
Senior Analyst at e-MFP/MIMOSA, Belgium
Many MFIs engage in risk management efforts due in part to pressures they face from regulators or investors rather than from a deep appreciation of risk management and the social and financial value it can bring to an institution.
Respondent
2014 Banana Skins Report
Not all institutions are aware of the importance of good risk management, and many still deem risk management as an extra cost with no value-added.
Georgina Vázquez
Senior Manager at Omtrix in Costa Rica
After years in which observers have favourably contrasted the relative stability of African banking with the financial sector chaos in Europe and the US, it seems that three critical perils – mismanagement, political interference and economic woes – are conspiring to transform the landscape of African banking into a decidedly treacherous place for depositors and investors.
Mark Napier
Director - Capital Markets, Financial Inclusion at FSD Africa
many microfinance businesses have failed because their managers lacked the requisite skill and knowledge to understand the risks associated with their operations.
Ekow Essabra-Mensah
The market was quickly flooded with credit. Risk management went out of the window.
Bruce Whitfield
Speaking to the collapse of African Bank
Risk is fast becoming dynamic in a very unpredictable industry. Management needs to be on constant lookout for new risk characteristics so that they can easily be identified quite early and a mitigation plan devised.
Elijah Chol Yak
Managing Director of the South Sudan Microfinance Development Facility