Subject(s): Microfinance. -- Risk management. -- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS in Finance. -- Risk management : Additional risks for MFIs with rural portfolios, Development of a risk management system -- Good governance- managing internal risk: Ownership , legal form and their impact on governance, NGOs, Private investor, government, external public entities and aid agencies, microfiance investment vehicles, MFIs in transformation -- Interest rates -- Microinsurence : insurance products and low-income clients, Design of the product for low income markets, Microinsurance for rural clients, Latin America fare in microinsurance coverage, MFIs and the barriers to mainstreaming coverage -- Progressive housing microfinance : Institutional changes, Subsides -- Microleasing - Overcoming equipment-financing barriers : Tax and regulatory considerations -- Disaster management -- New technologies : mobile banking, Network system, Remote data processing, PDAs POS terminals, Biometrics