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••• UMLP Partner banks |
At present nine partner-banks are participating in the UMLP. The first bank, to join the programme has been Raiffeisen Bank Aval (former Aval) in April 1997. Their first micro lending unit, which consisted of 4 loan officers, was opened in Kyiv. Currently, micro lending units of Raiffaisen Bank Aval operate in more than 35 cities disbursing more than 1,000 micro loans. Over the period of 9 years the UMLP has trained over 200 bank loan officers in the field of micro lending. .
In December 1997 the second bank- Privat Bank – joined the Programme. During the first month of work, the micro lending unit, which consisted of 2 loan officers, issued only one loan. End of 2002, after a five years-period, 120 loan officers were disbursing monthly about 600 micro loans. Nowadays operate around 300 micro lending units all over Ukraine. Monthly disbursements exceed 6,000 loans and the loan portfolio, which amounts more than 85,000 loans, is managed by 1,800 loan officers.
In 2000 Bank Forum became a partner bank of the UMLP. During the first five months only one loan officer had been involved in micro lending business. Over the year the micro lending staff gradually increased as well as monthly disbursements. Today 205 loan officers are granting in average 800 loans a month and monitor around 9,700 outstanding loans.
In February 2001 the Microfinance Bank (later renamed to ProCredit Bank) was established exclusively for financing micro and small businesses. The shareholders of the bank are international financial organisations and companies, which are focused on supporting business and economy development in Europe and all over the world. From the beginning on the bank started actively to develop its branch network and to increase the number of loan officers. Today the bank employs about 330 loan officers, which issue more than 3,500 loans per month.
In April 2002 micro lending units were set up in Nadra Bank. During the very first days the bank opened several micro lending units in various cities. In 2006 the bank set up a separate MSE division within its structure, targeting at to provide full-range bank services to small and medium business. Today micro lending units of Nadra Bank operate in all regional centres and in smaller towns employing more than 600 loan officers, which monitor 23,000 outstanding loans
CreditPrombank joined the UMLP latest in the beginning of 2004. For the four years more than 14,500 loans were disbursed. By today the bank has more than 20 micro lending units, which employ about 100 loan officers. Micro lending portfolio exceeds 5,500 loans.
In 2007 Kredobank became a partner bank of the UMLP. Since October 2006 more than 30 loan officers were instructed. By today the bank has more than 20 micro lending units, which operate in big regional centres Simferopol, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv and Kharkov. Micro lending portfolio exceeds 350 loans.
The youngest UMLP partner banks remain Rodovid and Megabank. These banks joined the Programm in November 2007.
More than ten loan officer have been trained at the Programm seminars. For today each of the banks have over 70 outstanding loans.
During the first monthss Megabank opened several micro lending units in big cities Simferopol, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv and Kharkov.
Rodovid has opened lending units in three regional centres of the Ukraine Donetsk, Kyiv, Lviv.
Since 1997 the UMLP conducted above 220 seminars and trained more than 3,000 loan officers and employees of the partner-banks in the field of micro lending.
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