Seven MABS Participating Banks from Visayas and Mindanao joined the RBAP-MABS staff on July 21-23 in Cebu City for the Group Lending Enhancement Training Workshop. Ms. Tess Espenilla of USAID opened the session with a welcome address expressing the need for the group lending product, which has been at the heart of microfinance for the [...]
MABS trains Mindanao Rural Banks on Housing Microfinance
March 7, 2010 By
MABS successfully launched its series of housing microfinance trainings for this year, kicking off with the “Designing a Housing Microfinance Loan” training held on March 4-6 in Cagayan de Oro City. The first batch of trainees composed of 17 senior and middle bank managers came from six Mindanao-based rural banks, namely: Rural Bank of Oroquieta, [...]
2009 MABS EAGLE Awardees’ videos now available online
February 26, 2010 By
EAGLE Awards 2009 – GM Bank (1 of 3)In May last year, MABS named three of its outstanding participating banks as the EAGLE Achievement Awardees for 2009. These were GM Bank, Rural Bank of Oroquieta and Rural Bank of Santo Tomas. In recognition of the banks’ exemplary performance in 2008, MABS prepared video documentaries presenting [...]
Northern Mindanao RBs trained on the MABS Approach to develop Micro-Agri Loan Products
January 24, 2010 By
MABS conducted the 6throll-out training on Micro-Agri Loan Product Development to interested Northern Mindanao participating banks on January 20-23 in Pagadian City. Twenty loan department officers and field staff from the Rural Bank of Dipolog, Rural Bank of Katipunan, Rural Bank of Oroquieta, Cooperative Bank of Misamis Oriental (CBMO), and 1st Valley Bank attended the [...]
