Region: Asia

This note illustrates importance of market research in the entire product development process, which is often neglected by most of the institutions.

In this video Dr Fazle Abed, the founder and chairman of BRAC talks about the BRAC approach to microfinance and their recent expansion to Africa. He elaborates the BRAC’s role in tackling the various aspects of poverty in terms of finance, health, education and family planning. On Africa expansion, he stresses on the modifications required […]

The ShoreCap Exchange forum addresses strategies and tools for attracting and retaining talent, enhancing the alignment of human resource practices with primary business goals and using human capital to build institutional strengths. ShoreCap Exchange is a ShoreBank capacity building company that helps banks working to serve small business and microfinance markets overcome the substantial operational […]

In this video Graham A.N.Wright, Prgogramme Director MSC discusses the challenges with the existing banking infrastructure in India and the usefulness of mobile-banking for MFI clients. He outlines the role of MSC in identifying the needs of stakeholders of m-banking in India. Further, this episode takes up the case of EKO and interviews Abhishek Sinha, […]

In this video, Syed Hashemi, a senior microfinance specialist of CGAP, talks about the effectiveness of microfinance in Bangladesh not only in terms of economic development but also social change. Elaborating this point Hashemi says that it has brought women to the economic foreground and provided better schooling facilities and legal rights to the bottom […]

In this video series-2, Richard Turner, former Chief Credit Officer, ShoreBank, taking the discussion further on delinquency loans advises loan officers to follow a certain code of conduct when they are sure the loans have become a problem. Richard cautions loan officers to treat a problem loan with patience and time if a loan officer […]