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L&T Finance to expand microfinance business

February 11th, 2010 Microfinance Training View Comments

Buoyed by the success rate of its microfinance business in the rural areas of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, L&T Finance, the financial services arm of Larsen & Toubro, is set to expand to Gujarat and Orissa over the next three months.
A team of microfinance professionals at L&T Retail Finance Group, which is [...]

Safety of Loan Officers in the Microfinance Sector

September 18th, 2009 Microfinance Training View Comments

Self defence training  - one of the last things that crossed our minds when building the curriculum for training Loan officers to work in microfinance.    Seems like we will have to revisit this thought pretty soon.
Loan officer safety – a low key topic so far – seems to becoming more imporant as incidents of [...]

Helping rural job seekers find a bright future

September 17th, 2009 Microfinance Training View Comments

MTA does a large chunk of its student sourcing from rural areas.  It has been a direction of choice for us and strategically fits in with our long term growth plans.  Our ability to scale and provide large numbers of trained microfinance staff, critically depends on tapping into large pools of educated but unemployed youth. [...]

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