Category: Video
Individual Lending(IL): Biashara Imara (Flagship microfinance product of Equity Bank Kenya)
In this video, Mark Pickens, Microfinance Analyst, CGAP, describes the characteristics and features of Biashara Imara, the individual loan product of Equity Bank Kenya. Biashara Imara means “strong, solid business.” He also describes the profile of clients that Biashara Imara is designed to target at. Elaborating the client base of Biashara Imara, Elizabeth Wambui Gathai […]
Mar 31, 2008
Equity Bank Employees’ Market led Success-Equity Bank Kenya
The video depicts the journey of Equity Bank Kenya from a Society to a commercial Bank. The Equity Bank business model has attracted both local and international recognition. Equity has also become a hub of other institutions worldwide keen on learning and exchanging insights on the Equity model of extending financial services to the low […]
Mar 24, 2008
Microfinance in Bangladesh BRAC
In this video, Senior Microfinance Specialist of CGAP Syed Hashemi talks about the common vision of Muhammad Yunus and Fazle Hasan Abed i.e social transformation. Hashemi describes the different methods followed by both leaders to build a society where the poor were integrated in the development process. He explains in detail about the organisational structure […]
Mar 17, 2008
Microfinance in Bangladesh: Grameen Bank
In this video, Senior Microfinance Specialist of CGAP Syed Hashemi discusses the principles and features of microfinance in Bangladesh. Talking about the success of microfinance in the country, Hashemi applauds dynamic leaders such as Muhammad Yunus, Fazle Hasan Abed who have used microfinance as an anti-dote for poverty in post-liberalised Bangladesh. Hashemi highlights the role […]
Mar 10, 2008
Creating a World Without Poverty Part 1
In this video series-1, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, discusses how in times of global financial crisis the poor have proved themselves to be credit-worthy, contrary to the conventional wisdom of large banks. Speaking at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C, Dr. Yunus talks about Grameen’s Microcredit project in New York and […]
Mar 9, 2008
E/M-Banking for Financial Inclusion in India: Opportunities and Challenges
In 2012 Ignacio Mas worked with MSC to look at the state of digital financial services in India, the type of products that poor people want, and the role of microfinance institutions/SHGs in digital financial services systems. Ignacio also ran a training for all MSC staff, and we then asked him to record some of […]
Jun 14, 0201