Daniel Rozas

Independent consultant

Daniel Rozas is an inclusive finance consultant based in Brussels, Belgium, with broad-ranging expertise, including client protection and risk and crisis management. He is also the co-founder of the MIMOSA project, which provides a methodological assessment of market saturation and risk of overindebtedness for leading microfinance markets, and is a member of the e-MFP Secretariat. Prior to entering the microfinance sector, Daniel worked for the U.S. mortgage investment company Fannie Mae from 2001-2008, where he had a front-row seat to the extraordinary boom-and-bust cycle of the U.S. mortgage market at the time – an experience that has been instrumental in shaping his  work in inclusive finance today. 

By Daniel Rozas

Research

Indian Microfinance Goes Public: The SKS Initial Public Offering

On 28 July 2010 SKS, India’s largest microfinance institution (MFI) with 5.8 million clients, became the first MFI in India to float its shares through an initial public offering (IPO).
Research

All Eyes on Asset Quality: Microfinance Global Valuation Survey 2010

The upheaval that hit mainstream financial markets and the reverberations that continue to be felt across the globe from the resulting economic crisis impacted MFIs and their clients.