Tag: Risk mitigant

In this video Renée Chao-Beroff, Director, Microfinance Department, CIDR; General Manager, Pamiga tells that agricultural microfinance has developed despite the challenges that it faces. She explains the rise in demand for agriculture products especially in the emerging markets and how the rural population are mitigating risks through diversifying their produce. She adds that new actors, […]

In this video, Pamela Champagne, Consultant, ShoreBank International, explains the importance of process mapping for MFIs and the benefits these could provide to the MFIs. Pamela emphasises that process maps can be used for various purposes such as staff training and orientation, to help visualise processes in their future state without making major capital investment […]

In this video, Robert Dressen, Vice President, Economics, Business and Finance, DAI, begins with the importance of credit administration and credit control. He goes on to explain the difference between credit administration and credit control. Robert further talks about the principle functions of credit administration such as Reporting and Record keeping, Monitoring the portfolio and […]

In this video series-1, Mark Schreiner, Director, Microfinance Risk Management, discusses Credit Scoring System for microfinance industry. Mark says that credit scoring system works best for large lending organisation that have large amount of data, have decent MIS in place and where the management is ready for change. Basing his argument on this parameter, Mark […]

In this video, Donna Nails, former Deputy Director, Risk Management Department, ShoreBank Corporation, talks about the key components of credit risk management. Donna describes the reasons for credit risk management for financial institutions, the importance of monitoring of credit risk and setting up of credit risk tools and department before disbursing loans. She also discusses […]