MSME Sector-Designing And Delivering Financing Products And Services

Micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME)

At MSC, we are committed to expanding access to finance to the MSMEs by designing and delivering tailored financing products and services. We have an incisive understanding of MSME finance and development issues. We work with investors, financial services providers, and enterprises. MSC helps build strategy, design business models, develop new products, manage risk, strengthen capacities, and optimize processes and systems. We have experts who can help our clients enhance operational efficiency, fine-tune loan processing and credit management systems, and improve MIS and IT systems.

MSC builds capacities and transfers skills through training and hands-on support during implementation. We cover alternative data for lending and digital credit, thin-file customers, enterprises led and managed by women, and credit behavior. We also cover non-financial services, such as skill development and business development services.

Signature Projects

SME lending methodology revision for KWFT in Kenya

MSC helped Kenya Women’s Microfinance Bank (KWFT) develop a strategy to improve the performance of the individual and SME businesses it managed. MSC’s support enhanced the outreach of KWFT. By the end of 2019, KWFT expects to reach over 100,000 individual and SMEs.

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Establish a risk share facility that lent USD 33 million to MSMEs in Papua New Guinea

MSC led a four-year-long intervention with the Central Bank of Papua New Guinea to build a microfinance sector in the country. We helped set up a risk share facility (RSF) that helps manage risks associated with MSE lending. The intervention reduced the turnaround time of individual loans to MSMEs from two months to eight days, while the average loan disbursed increased by 95% to USD 5,500.

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Microenterprises finance product design and implementation support to Urwego Opportunity Bank, Rwanda

MSC determined the financing needs of the MSME sector in Rwanda for Urwego Opportunity Bank. Our intervention reduced the turnaround time of individual loans to MSMEs from two months to eight days, while the average loan disbursed increased to USD 5,500.

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Promotion of urban micro and small enterprises through technical assistance to NBFCs

Through the project, MSC provided technical assistance to non-bank financial institutions to promote urban micro and small enterprises in India. MSC advised five institutions and supported the pilot of a new product. The pilot scaled to a combined INR 1 billion (USD 15 million) portfolio within a year.

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SME handbook development for DHL/IFC in Africa

MSC developed a customized training and handbook for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa. The training program for SMEs covered six broad areas. Over 1,000 entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa have used the handbook and the e-learning platform continues to find intensive use.

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Landscape study on enterprise development in Fiji

The Reserve Bank of Fiji and MDF commissioned MSC to undertake an MSME landscape study in Fiji. MSC’s research was a first-of-its-kind study that focused on enterprise development and helped the clients to develop strategies and formulate policy interventions for MSME development.

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Digital empowerment of women-led businesses

With the MetLife Foundation’s support, MSC has designed a global signature program for female entrepreneurs in India, Nepal, and Vietnam. The program’s focus areas are to build better livelihoods and income for these entrepreneurs, improve their financial health by enhancing their digital footprints, provide access to various financial services, and improve market linkage. MSC developed Sangini Konect, a platform under the program for women-led businesses in India. The platform supports them through various learning tools to grow their businesses and empowers them to improve their financial and digital capabilities.

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Micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME)

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