Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lyudmila Yu. Ryzhanovskaya Author-Email: rijanow@mail.ru Author-Workplace-Name: Financial Research Institute, Moscow 127006, Russia Title: Conceptual Approaches to the Typology and the Identification of the Risk Profiles of Participants (Subjects) Microfinance System Abstract: The article continues a series of science journal publications on the problems of regulation of microfinance activities. In this study, the author refers to the analysis of the most complex problems — the influence of the variety of institutional types of microfinance institutions on the approaches to the regulation of the activity and the identification of risk profiles of major groups microfinance providers. Classification-JEL: Keywords: microfinance system, institutional levels of microfinance system, risk profiles, typology of microfinance institutions, window control Journal: Finansovyj žhurnal — Financial Journal Pages: 5-20 Issue: 4 Year: 2013 Month: December File-URL: http://www.nifi.ru/images/FILES/Journal/Archive/2013/4/statii/2013_04_01.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:fru:finjrn:130401:p:5-20