An Asian bank for low-income women is out to teach Wall Street a lesson. Rana Foroohar It's pretty safe to say that three years ago no one could have predicted that one of the few financial institutions to be opening new branches and expanding lending in America would...

Former British Premier Gordon Brown and Vice-Chancellor Pamela Gillies at the launching  of the Yunus Centre of Social Business and Health at the Glasgow Caledonian University in Glasgow on July 5 with  Nobel Laureate Professor  Muhammad Yunus, after whom the...

Top official of Alliance Fibre Glass shares his plans with Amreen Ahmed Bari Mr. Shahed Ahmed From an invitation to an event, to by-the-by talks on social business, two minds came together to conceive the idea of a joint venture to produce fibreglass products in Ban...

BASF Grameen takes chemically-treated mosquito nets to the rural poor Sohel Parvez - Wednesday, July 7, 2010 Saria Sadique, chairman of BASF Bangladesh Ltd, spends more time and energy just to explain the concept of social business. His organisation has made a f...

Gordon Thomson 6 Jul 2010 The man known as the banker to the poor of Bangladesh wants to open a branch in one of the most-deprived areas of Glasgow. Sighthill has been identified as a possible location for Grameen Bank Glasgow which would be the first of its kind i...

Jasper Hamill 6 Jul 2010 The Nobel Prize-winning founder of a bank that has lifted millions of people out of poverty has vowed to establish the UK's first branch in Glasgow within a year. Professor Muhammad Yunus hopes that establishing the Grameen Bank in the city...

Finance Secretary John Swinney has had "useful and constructive" talks with a Nobel Prize-winning anti-poverty campaigner. Mr Swinney met leading economist Muhammad Yunus to discuss his bid to set up Britain's first Grameen Bank in Scotland. Professor Yunus pioneered ...

Finance secretary John Swinney will hold talks with a Nobel Prize-winning anti-poverty campaigner about setting up Britain's first Grameen Bank in Scotland. Leading economist Muhammad Yunus pioneered the banks in his native Bangladesh, which offer small low-cost loans ...

As approximately 300 guests and participants took their seats in the Ball Room of the Pan-Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka on the morning of June 28, the anticipation towards the first Social Business Day's daylong program was palpable. The whole place was buzzing, and ...

Sohel Parvez Tending to an expectant mother, a health worker keys answers to a set of questions into her smartphone. The information is then sent to a local clinic by the internet-enabled phone for a follow-up. If the situation is deemed risky, doctors respond by ...