Only persons licensed to undertake regulated microfinance services can use the term 'microfinance' in their corporate or trading names, or otherwise hold themselves out to be a microfinance institution. Licensees are not allowed to transact with non-residents of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and in foreign currencies. To qualify as a microfinance institution, the person concerned must undertake (as a minimum), the activities of providing credit to eligible beneficiaries.
January 2014