Just look at the structure of the board. Vikram is the lone wolf playing the social card," says one employee who prefers not to be named. Akula wants more say for the trust, but the management thinks ...

New Delhi: India's only listed micro-finance company SKS Microfinance's 40 of its employees have resigned to join a new mobile banking venture being launched by Vikram Akula, who stepped down as ...

A Fistful of Rice by Vikram Akula is not a book. At a mere 208 pages, it is a fat pamphlet. The operative adage might be “don’t judge a book by its size,” because a book is better judged by the ...

Since its debut on the Bombay Stock Exchange in mid-August SKS Microfinance, India's biggest such institution, has seen its share price jump 60% to reach a market cap of about $2 billion. The firm was ...

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 ...

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 ...

The initial public offering of SKS Microfinace has been well chronicled by the news media in India, where the company’s founder, Vikram Akula, an Indian-American, has become a celebrity. Time magazine ...

Loaning a few bucks to third World entrepreneurs may not sound like cutting-edge banking. Indeed, microfinance might attract more investors, as "actorvist" Tim Robbins suggested at a recent U.N. gala, ...

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 ...