Financial Risk Mitigation
Minimize Risk: Finance MSMEs
Even as excessive levels of competition erode interest rate spreads, financial institutions continue to flock to what they consider safe space, namely loans to…
Financial Risk Mitigation
Financial Risk Mitigation
MSMEs: Always All In!
When an MSME reaches out to financial institutions for a loan to grow their business, the financial institution only finances a part of the…
Financial Risk Mitigation
Hardcore Overdraft is like a Debt Addiction
Not many people, not even many bankers, have heard the term hardcore overdraft, but it is a thing. The purpose of an overdraft account…
Financial Risk Mitigation
Pump Up The MFS Volume: Mandate Interoperability Now!
Mobile Financial Services (MFS) is fairly active in Bangladesh but the cost of transactions and the level of literacy of the ultimate beneficiaries, namely…
Climate Finance
Financing the Chors (River Islands) of Bangladesh
This is a follow up to a previous note, The Chors (River Islands) of Bangladesh: A Real Challenge for the Financial Services Sector. The…
Climate Finance
The Chors (River Islands) of Bangladesh: A Real Challenge for the Financial Services Sector
To say that life is difficult for the residents of the Chors (River Islands) of Bangladesh would be an understatement of the highest magnitude.…