Strategic Partner: Credit Suisse

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Oak Brook, Ill., Jan. 24, 2012 – A vast number of families who live in the developing world will soon gain expanded access to the financial tools available through Opportunity International, due to a three-year grant from Credit Suisse’s Microfinance Capacity Building Initiative.
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Opportunity launches a mobile phone banking program in Malawi.
Opportunity uses technology, specifically back-end switching systems, to enable its banks to achieve widespread outreach to rural microfinance clients.

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Credit Suisse interviews leaders of four microfinance partners, including Opportunity International.

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Related Photos

  • Opportunity Malawi clients line up to deposit money or get loans at a mobile bank that makes weekly stops in their rural village.
  • To bring greater access to urban clients living or working far from the main branch, Opportunity uses a truck container ingeniously repurposed as a portable bank. A practical and affordable solution, these bank branches accept savings deposits and disburse loans.
  • Catherine Dailes, with her one-year-old daughter, makes a withdrawal from her savings account at an Opportunity bank branch near her home in rural Malawi.
  • Bank cards that use biometric technology provide a convenient, secure way to bank, especially for those who are illiterate or lack formal identification. Clients’ fingerprints are recorded on their cards and used for quick and secure identification during transactions, such as at this ATM.
  • An Opportunity Malawi client uses her biometric-enabled Smart Card to make a transaction at an ATM in her community.
  • A Opportunity Malawi staff member shows a rural shop owner how to use this point-of-sale device to conduct a banking transaction.