Microfinance Podcast » Role of Savings

MFP 143. Insights from a Microfinance Pioneer – Pancho Otero Talks about BancoSol. Part 2

Oxana Holtmann — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:18:58 +0000

How does a crisis help microfinance institutions and their clients? Pancho Otero, one of the global industry pioneers, explains how this is the case. And he gives his perspective on the importance of the enabling environment and good regulations to help produce mature microfinance institutions.
05:54 minutes

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MFP 142. Insights from a Microfinance Pioneer – Pancho Otero Talks about BancoSol. Part 1

Oxana Holtmann — Mon, 30 May 2011 10:00:17 +0000

Why is successful microfinance based on savings? The microfinance industry has produced a fair share of pioneers and visionaries, and Pancho Otero is one of them! As the founding CEO of the Prodem Foundation, the nucleus of BancoSol, Pancho helped create one of the most successful microfinance institutions in the world. Pancho gives his insights on the success of microfinance in Bolivia and how Prodem became a bank and a leader in savings mobilization.
10:15 minutes

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MFP 099. Stuart Rutherford on “Portfolios of the Poor”. A conversation with Graham A.N. Wright. Part 3

Oxana Holtmann — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:29:37 +0000

Stuart Rutherford, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor” talks about the financial products that poor people need from MFIs.
MicroSave and the Financial Access Initiative invite you to join the authors of Portfolios of the Poor for a two-day virtual conference.
This event will be moderated by co-authors Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford and Orlanda Ruthven, and MicroSave’s Graham Wright.
Dates: June 8-9, 2010
For more information and free registration, please visit www.MicroSave.org
08:21 minutes

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MFP 098. Stuart Rutherford on “Portfolios of the Poor”. A conversation with Graham A.N. Wright. Part 2

Oxana Holtmann — Fri, 28 May 2010 10:00:05 +0000

Stuart Rutherford, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor” and Graham Wright, Program Director, MicroSave, talk about the key lessons of the book in terms of poor people’s financial behavior.
Stuart is the founder of SafeSave Bangladesh, an organization that provides reliable basic banking services, profitably, to poor men, women, and children in Dhaka. He became interested in how poor people manage their lives and their money as a result of working in developing countries as an architect and then for NGOs. From this perspective he became involved in microfinance as a practitioner (in Bangladesh), teacher, consultant, and writer. He is the author of The Poor and Their Money (Oxford University Press, 2000) and is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester, UK. He lives in Japan.
06:59 minutes

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MFP 097. Stuart Rutherford on “Portfolios of the Poor”. A conversation with Graham A.N. Wright. Part 1

Oxana Holtmann — Thu, 27 May 2010 17:26:45 +0000

Stuart Rutherford, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor”, talks about the inspiration for the research on financial diaries that was the foundation of the book.
Stuart is the founder of SafeSave Bangladesh, an organization that provides reliable basic banking services, profitably, to poor men, women, and children in Dhaka. He became interested in how poor people manage their lives and their money as a result of working in developing countries as an architect and then for NGOs. From this perspective he became involved in microfinance as a practitioner (in Bangladesh), teacher, consultant, and writer. He is the author of The Poor and Their Money (Oxford University Press, 2000) and is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester, UK. He lives in Japan.
08:57 minutes

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MFP 094. Carlos Danel: Compartamos – Moving towards Savings and Lessons from the IPO Story. Part 4

Oxana Holtmann — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:16:12 +0000

MFP 094. Carlos Danel: Compartamos – Moving towards Savings and Lessons from the IPO Story. Part 4
06:37 minutes

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MFP 080. Roshaneh Zafar, Managing Director, Kashf Foundation, Pakistan: Reaching Clients and Mobilizing Deposits

Oxana Holtmann — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:41:27 +0000

07:11 mins
Roshaneh Zafar, Managing Director of Kashf Foundation and the founder of Kashf Bank, one of the leaders of microfinance in Pakistan, speaks about the challenges of reaching female borrowers in one of the largest and most challenging markets in the world. She shares her views on the importance of mobilizing deposits from microfinance customers.

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MFP 076. Marguerite Robinson: Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) – Why It Became a Leader

Oxana Holtmann — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:18:45 +0000

Marguerite Robinson, a long-term adviser to BRI, talks about one of the most successful microfinance providers in the world.
08:22 minutes

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MFP 072. Marguerite Robinson: Savings – the Core of Microfinance

Oxana Holtmann — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:00:19 +0000

Interview with Marguerite Robinson on the role of savings in microfinance.
Dr. Robinson has worked extensively in Asia, in rural and tribal areas and among the urban poor. She served for many years as adviser to the Indonesian Ministry of Finance and to Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) on the development of BRI’s microbanking system-now the largest financially self-sufficient microfinance system in the world. She also works in other countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, advising governments, banks, donors, and others, and is the author of many papers and books on development and microfinance. Her most recent books are the first two volumes of a multi-volume book, The Microfinance Revolution, published by the World Bank and Open Society Institute; two additional volumes are in progress. These volumes explore and analyze the demand for microfinance and the history, theories, controversies, practices, and future of the emerging commercial microfinance industry in countries and institutions around the world.
06:22 minutes

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MFP 070. Dr. James Mwangi: Financial Crisis and the Role of Savings

Oxana Holtmann — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:45:44 +0000

Interview with Dr. James Mwangi, CEO, Equity Bank, Kenya, on financial crisis and the role of savings.
04:57 minutes

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