Capacity Building for Scaled-up Finance
FFI's small business finance advisory work focuses on building permanent capacity in the financial sector to provide very small, small and medium enterprises with credit and requisite financial services. When working with existing banks, we help make fundamental changes in their procedures, market positioning, personnel policy and training, MIS, branch delegation policies, and so forth in order to achieve scale, profitability and sustainability. When working with greenfield banks we help implement highly efficient target group oriented systems and procedures from the out-set.
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We provide long-term consultancy, including:
- Business and management support for partner banks and microfinance institutions
- Design and implementation of sustainable structures for small business finance bank-wide
- Recruitment and training of credit and credit-related staff
- Ongoing skills development for credit staff and management
- Developing training materials and training departments
- Setting-up systems for risk management, portfolio quality control, MIS, etc.
- Branch network expansion, including into rural areas and underserved areas
- Setting up full service target group oriented banks from scratch
- Transformation of non-bank financial institutions into supervised banks
Short-term consulting services include:
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Training and skills development in specific areas (e.g. risk management, anti-crisis measures, agricultural finance, etc.)
- Financial sector studies and studies on special topics (e.g. low income housing, savings mobilization)
- Feasibility studies and business plans for the establishment of microfinance institutions
- Capacity strengthening in specific areas (e.g. finance, risk, savings, HR, marketing)
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