"Microfinance is a term for financial services that are offered to individuals of lower socioeconomic backgrounds or those who
lack access to traditional financial services."
"Microfinance includes microcredit, the provision of small loans to poor clients; savings and checking accounts; microinsurance;
and payment systems, among other services."
"Microfinance services are designed to reach excluded customers, usually low income population segments,
possibly socially marginalized, or geographically more isolated, and to help them become self-sufficient. SAF is an example of a microfinance institution."
