CGAP Consensus Guidelines addressing regulatory and supervisory issues relevant to formal financial services for poor people.
Focuses on the specifics of microfinance regulation and supervision. Addresses issues and principles applicable to financial sector regulation and supervision more generally only when necessary to understand the specifics of regulating and supervising microfinance. Focuses on for-profit and nonprofit private actors. Does not address issues specific to state-owned or state-controlled institutions, and savings banks, that also serve poor people, although most of the general principles apply to state institutions and to both state-owned and privately owned savings banks.
Publisher:
International Organizations
Release date:
Sep 2012
Type:
Guideline
Topics:
Supervisory framework, Supervisory structures, Capital adequacy, Risk management, Corporate governance
Sectors:
Microfinance, Microinsurance, Banking
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