Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review Volume 4 Issue 2 2015 Private Equity Investments in Microfinance in India Hugh Manahan University of Michigan Law School Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mbelr Part of the Banking and Finance Law Commons, and the Comparative and Foreign Law Commons Recommended Citation Hugh Manahan, Private Equity Investments in Microfinance in India, 4 MICH. BUS. & ENTREPRENEURIAL L. REV. 293 (2015). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mbelr/vol4/iss2/5 This Note is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review by an authorized editor of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Private Equity Investments in Microfinance in India Hugh Manahan* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ......................................... 294 II. MICROFINANCE BUSINESS MODEL ....................... 294 A. Overview and History ............................... 294 B. Business Model ..................................... 297 1. Target Population and Products ................. 297 2. Joint Liability Groups .......................... 299 3. Customer Acquisition and Loan Servicing ....... 301 III. REGULATION OF MFIS.................................. 303 A. Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) ........ 305 B. Non-Banking Financial Companies – Microfinance