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Grameen Bank (Bengali: গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক) is a microfinance, specialized community development bank founded in Bangladesh. [5] [6] It provides small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit") [7] to the impoverished without requiring collateral.
Till 30 August 2006, it disbursed taka 135.5 to 1257 projects in the Grameen Bank network. [10] During the fiscal year 2006, 219 loans were made for a total of US$362,174, including 216 microenterprise loans and 3 small business loans. [8] Of the micro enterprises, 21 was for minority-owned businesses, and 3 for women-owned businesses. [8]
Microfinance initially had a limited definition: the provision of microloans to small scale entrepreneurs and small (informal sectors) businesses lacking access to credit. [4] The two main mechanisms for the delivery of financial services to such clients were: (1) relationship-based banking for individual entrepreneurs and small businesses; and
The origins of microcredit in its current practical incarnation can be linked to several organizations founded in Bangladesh, especially the Grameen Bank. The Grameen Bank, which is generally considered the first modern microcredit institution, was founded in 1983 by Muhammad Yunus. [2] Yunus began the project in a small town called Jobra ...
Grameen America presentation. Grameen America was founded upon the belief that Grameen Bank's microfinance lending system could succeed in urban America as it had in Bangladesh. Professor Yunus believed that microfinance should be put to work in the capital of international finance, New York City, in which a segment of the population do not ...
The Social Success Note is an outcome-based financing mechanism in which a commercial bank is incentivized to lend to social businesses by a donor, who provides a grant to the commercial bank representing market returns (in addition to the social business' loan repayments) when the social business meets predefined objectives. [24]
The Grameen family of organizations has grown beyond Grameen Bank into a multi-faceted group of both commercial and non-profit ventures. It was first established by Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning founder of Grameen Bank. Most of the organizations in the Grameen group have central offices at the Grameen Bank Complex in Mirpur ...
Mohammad Shahjahan Bangladeshi is a former managing director and CEO of Grameen Bank. [1] [2] [3] He assumed the office on 14 August 2011 until he retired on 30 October 2014. [4] He gained his Bachelor of Commerce degree in accounting from University of Dhaka in 1976. He completed his master's degree in accounting and finance from the same ...