{"id":38887,"date":"2019-02-19T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bpr-reopens-nyabugogo-gisozi-branches\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T13:11:20","slug":"bpr-reopens-nyabugogo-gisozi-branches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bpr-reopens-nyabugogo-gisozi-branches\/","title":{"rendered":"BPR reopens Nyabugogo, Gisozi branches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the BPR management and its clients met to celebrate the re-opening of the branches.<\/p>\n<p>The Gisozi BPR branch manager, Gatera Kayoboke Claude said that the renovated building will help to improve the banking environment which is mutually beneficial to both staff and clients. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we receive them in a good area, more clients will come and we are ready to provide the best services to our clients,\u201d he promised.<\/p>\n<p>The BPR Head of Retail  Mugisha Shema said that Gisozi branch has been receiving many clients and that\u2019s why they renovated the building so as to give enough space for its clients.<br \/>\nGisozi branch receives 10,000 clients whereas Nyabugogo branch receives 7,000 per day. <\/p>\n<p>BPR clients have been impressed by the new look of the buildings. Nshogoza Seleman a client of BPR Nyabugogo branch since 1997 says: \u201cWe are happy for these new buildings. We were receiving good service but I believe it\u2019s going to be better with this impressive banking environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BPR began operations in 1975. 80% of its customers are from personal and Small and Medium Entreprises customers with the rest (20%) being corporate. The bank\u2019s rate of non-performing loans improved from 13% three years ago to 7.8% currently.<\/p>\n<p>BPR has recently announced 2% reduction of its base lending rate from 16.5% to 14.5% to go into effect from 1st March 2019.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28197 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mu_ishami_rya_gisozi_nabo_barimo_kwakira_abakiliya-6d436.jpg\" alt=\"Banque Populaire du Rwanda Plc (BPR) part of Atlas Mara has re-opened its branches in Nyabugogo and Gisozi\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28198 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abayobozi_n_abakiliya_basangiye_icyo_kunywa-d0163.jpg\" alt=\"The BPR management and its clients met to celebrate the re-opening of the branches\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28199 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abakiliya_bari_benshi_nyuma_y_uko_ishami_rya_nyabugogo_ryongeye_gufungura_imiryango-8afe8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28201 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nshogoza_seleman_ukorana_na_bpr_ishami_rya_nyabugogo_kuva_mu_1997_yishimiye_ko_ryongeye_gufungura_imiryango_mu_isura_nshya-3639b.jpg\" alt=\"Nshogoza Seleman a client of BPR Nyabugogo branch since 1997, expressed his happiness about the new buildings\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28200 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuyobozi_ushinzwe_ubucuruzi_muri_bpr_mugisha_wambaye_ikoti_afungura_ku_mugaragaro_ishami_rya_gisozi-d2fd4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banque Populaire du Rwanda Plc (BPR) part of Atlas Mara has re-opened its branches in Nyabugogo and Gisozi after two months of closure as the buildings were undergoing renovation to enable smooth operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38887"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38887"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}