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.

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.

WWB is delighted to announce that Spandana of India has joined the Women's World Banking network. Based in Hyderabad - with 350 branches throughout the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharastra and Orissa - Spandana is the largest microfinance institution in India in terms of active borrowers, and the second largest in portfolio size.