{"id":6401,"date":"2013-03-08T03:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bcr-bank-to-expand-patnership-with-saccos\/"},"modified":"2013-03-08T04:22:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T04:22:59","slug":"bcr-bank-to-expand-patnership-with-saccos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bcr-bank-to-expand-patnership-with-saccos\/","title":{"rendered":"BCR Bank to Expand Patnership with SACCOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Commercial Bank of Rwanda (BCR) has announced plans to partner with microfinance institutions in the country to increase services to its clients.}}<\/p>\n<p>Sanjeev Anand, the Managing Director of BCR said, \u201cBCR considers MFIs and SACCOs as important partners. They believe we have good services that benefit them and also benefit us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Currently BCR is working with 40 SACCOs countrywide; however Sanjeev said \u201cBCR would like to have more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe we can use their network because they have a great number of customers and they believe they can use our network to increase distributorship.\u201d He explains.<\/p>\n<p>Among the services that BCR has to provide include an Accounting literacy program for SMEs like SACCOs and MFIs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery quarter, we train them in management and accounting for SMEs and we don\u2019t charge anything for it.\u201d Sanjeev added that those SMEs, who were not able to access credit, are able to get it as a result of training.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, BCR loaned out about Frw 2 billion to MFIs.<\/p>\n<p>BCR Manager Faustin Byishimo said, Corporate Banking services, provided to financial institutions include; capacity building, giving them computers and e-banking services providing interest of their deposited money as well as transporting money from SACCOs to BCR.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2113 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bcrs.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2114 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/c-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{(Right) Sanjeev Anand, the Managing Director of BCR}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Commercial Bank of Rwanda (BCR) has announced plans to partner with microfinance institutions in the country to increase services to its clients.}} Sanjeev Anand, the Managing Director of BCR said, \u201cBCR considers MFIs and SACCOs as important partners. They believe we have good services that benefit them and also benefit us.\u201d Currently BCR is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75],"byline":[474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-homenews","byline-dusabemungu-ange-de-la-victoire"],"bylines":[{"id":474,"name":"Dusabemungu Ange de la Victoire","slug":"dusabemungu-ange-de-la-victoire","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":474,"name":"Dusabemungu Ange de la Victoire","slug":"dusabemungu-ange-de-la-victoire","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}