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Islamic microfinance

Small amounts, many customers and the need for low-cost, fair contracts.

Islamic microfinance serves micro-entrepreneurs and households with small murabaha, qard hasan and group-based products. The cost of each contract has to be low and the terms clear. IslamicOpenFinance™ provides ready contract models and mobile-first flows that keep operations light.

Financial products

What you build on IslamicOpenFinance™

1

Micro-murabaha

Small asset purchases are financed by murabaha with short, simple schedules.

2

Qard hasan

Benevolent loans are repaid at face value, with no benefit stipulated for the lender.

3

Group products

Group-based financing records each member's obligations and the group's support.

4

Mobile collections

Instalments are collected through mobile wallets and reconciled automatically.

5

Donor-funded pools

Funds from donors or zakat bodies are tracked separately from the institution's own funds.

Value chain

The actors in this chain

IslamicOpenFinance™ connects them with one contract model, one policy and one evidence trail.

Micro-entrepreneurMicrofinance institutionDonors and zakat bodiesMobile wallet providerField officer

Standard setters and regulators in the directory

Typical flow

A typical flow, step by step

  1. Application
  2. Group formation
  3. Asset purchase
  4. Murabaha sale
  5. Mobile instalments
  6. Repayment
  7. Repeat financing

Live demo

See it in the terminal

A small murabaha for a sewing machine (demo), with instalments collected by mobile wallet. Demo data

DemoAll institutions, people, amounts and events are fictional demonstration data. Nothing here is a Shariah ruling, an offer or advice; approving a product is for each institution's own Shariah board and regulator.

Glossary

Key terms for this sector

Build Islamic microfinance on IslamicOpenFinance™.