Vikram Akula, founder and CEO of SKS Microfinance, launched the company in 1998 to offer small loans to very poor borrowers. Some 10 years later, SKS has become India's fastest growing microfinance ...

Vikram Akula, once the poster boy of India’s microfinance industry, is back. The founder of India's only listed microlender SKS Microfinance Ltd., from which he resigned three years ago, Mr. Akula is ...

In this impassioned memoir, for-profit microfinance entrepreneur Akula (A Fistful of Rice) defends his legacy while also acknowledging mistakes in the wake of a wave of suicides among his former ...

In this heartfelt manifesto, Akula argues that a for-profit model of microfinancing is not only ethical, but necessary in order to increase revenue that can create more loans for underprivileged would ...

NEW YORK, October 25, 2010 - The recent initial public offering (IPO) of SKS Microfinance, India's largest microfinance institution, for over $350 million dollars has sparked considerable debate ...

Mumbai, Nov. 23: Vikram Akula, founder and chairman of SKS Microfinance, today quit the board of the company he had set up around 13 years ago. P.H. Ravikumar will take over as the new non-executive ...

On a rainy afternoon at a five-star hotel in suburban Mumbai, Vikram Akula is making a fervent pitch to a group of potential investors in the enterprise he founded, SKS Microfinance (SKS). Akula and ...

MUMBAI, Nov 23 (Reuters) - SKS Microfinance, India's largest and only listed microfinance company, Founder and Chairman Vikram Akula may exit the company, newspapers reported on Wednesday, quoting ...

Tufts alumnus and Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd. founder Vikram Akula (LA ’90) discussed the history and legacy of his company, formerly known as SKS Microfinance, an Indian microfinancial firm ...

Nov 23 (Reuters) - SKS Microfinance , India's only listed microlender, said on Wednesday its founder Vikram Akula resigned as chairman and named an independent director as an interim replacement.

In 1997, Yunus acolyte Vikram Akula founded his own microcredit organization, Swayam Krishi Sangam, Sanskrit for "self-help society." In 2005, SKS started operating as a for-profit company and Akula ...