Boulder Institute of Microfinance

Blaine Stephens is Director of Analysis at the Microfinance Information eXchange, Inc. (MIX), the world’s leading source of data and information on MFIs and their funders. It is the publisher of the industry leading publication on microfinance benchmarking, the MicroBanking Bulletin (www.mixmbb.org), and is home to the industry’s largest portal (www.mixmarket.org) of market data on microfinance institutions and other industry actors.

Blaine is responsible for MIX’s global coverage of the microfinance market, managing its team of microfinance analysts, publishing and training widely on MFI performance and leading MIX's efforts to standardize microfinance reporting. He brings MIX training experience from the United Nations’s UNCDF Microfinance unit and retail institutional experience from Al Amana, Morocco’s leading microfinance provider.