Profit with Purpose, Making Banking on Women Impactful : Learnings from BLC Bank Lebanon, Garanti Bank Romania, Garanti Bank Turkey
The overall objective of this report is to learn about the results of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) ‘Banking on Women Program’ (BoW) in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa (EMENA) as well as other Banking on Women p...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/369761477988059415/Profit-with-purpose-making-banking-on-women-impactful-learnings-from-BLC-Bank-Lebanon-GarantiBank-Romania-Garanti-Bank-Turkey http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25406 |
| Summary: | The overall objective of this report is
to learn about the results of the International Finance
Corporation (IFC) ‘Banking on Women Program’ (BoW) in
Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa
(EMENA) as well as other Banking on Women programs.
Established in 2010, IFC’s ‘Banking on Women Program’ uses
IFC’s investment capital to help financial institutions
around the world with lending track records to small and
medium enterprises (SMEs) to profitably expand their
portfolios and provide women entrepreneurs with access to
finance. IFC also works with financial institutions to
deepen their ability to reach women-owned businesses through
segmenting their target market, positioning their brand and
repositioning their products to reach female borrowers.
Garanti Bank Romania, BLC Bank in Lebanon, both IFC client
banks, and Garanti Bank Turkey3, were selected for this
publication as individual case studies. Each of the three
case studies looks at the existing capacity and performance
of each of these banks in terms of serving women
entrepreneurs. In doing so, the study places particular
emphasis on the extent to which these banks are able to
deliver their women banking programs in a commercially
viable, self-sufficient manner that is based on the bank’s
own in-house resources and capacities. Where possible, each
study also aims to understand if and how the female borrower
segment has affected each bank’s business (bottom line,
sustainability and growth targets). A separate and parallel
assessment of this program looks at the impact of the
program on the end beneficiaries, i.e. women-owned SMEs.
This beneficiary survey will provide insights into how
effectively the bank’s female borrowers are reached and
served. Ultimately, this study aims to generate learning for
IFC and its client banks in order to strengthen the design
and delivery of the banks’ BoW program, as well as IFC
engagements in this area. |
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