On April 22, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Women's World Banking and the Inter-American Development Bank's Multilateral Investment Fund co-hosted a conference on private bank entry into microfinance, to promote the expansion of financial services for the region's poor and low-income entrepreneurs.

This new video provides a glimpse of the clients and microfinance providers that make up the Women's World Banking network.

Microfinance Insights featured an interview with WWB’s CEO, Mary Ellen Iskenderian. The article, titled “Sector Targets a Majority of Women, Employs a Minority,” questioned the lack of upper management positions held by women in microfinance: “Women make up less than half of all microfinance staff members, and fill even fewer of the senior management roles.

Time Magazine featured WWB's working paper, "Stemming the Tide of Mission Drift: Microfinance and the Double Bottom Line," on the World section of its online magazine. The Time article, titled "Microfinance: Women Being Cheated?" asks the question that initially motivated WWB to begin collecting data on microfinance institutions as they transform to regulated financial institutions

New York, NY – Women’s World Banking is deeply concerned about the situation facing Association PADME following the Benin government’s decision in March to request the resignation of PADME’s board and management team due to questions about the organization’s financial operations.