Jarri Jung is Director, Financial Institutions at Triple Jump. In this episode, he discusses the outlook for the microfinance sector and talks about the opportunities and challenges of lending subordinated debt. Key insights: The health crisis has passed but higher interest rates and the inflation environment have replaced Covid as the main concern facing the industry.Although subdebt is not equity, #MFIs using it acts as a catalyst to growth because they can leverage up and take on more debt...
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Jarri Jung is Director, Financial Institutions at Triple Jump. In this episode, he discusses the outlook for the microfinance sector and talks about the opportunities and challenges of lending subordinated debt. Key insights: The health crisis has passed but higher interest rates and the inflation environment have replaced Covid as the main concern facing the industry.Although subdebt is not equity, #MFIs using it acts as a catalyst to growth because they can leverage up and take on more debt...
ASA International on COVID, current operating conditions and digital financial services
Let's Talk Microfinance
45 minutes
2 years ago
ASA International on COVID, current operating conditions and digital financial services
This week we welcome ASA International. It is one of the world’s largest international microfinance institutions providing small, socially responsible loans, averaging about $166, to 2.4m low-income entrepreneurs, most of whom are women, across 13 countries in Asia and Africa. Listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker “ASAI” it has a market capitalization of about $108m. "ASA" stands for the "Association for Social Advancement". ASA NGO was founded in 1978 in Bangladesh by a microf...
Let's Talk Microfinance
Jarri Jung is Director, Financial Institutions at Triple Jump. In this episode, he discusses the outlook for the microfinance sector and talks about the opportunities and challenges of lending subordinated debt. Key insights: The health crisis has passed but higher interest rates and the inflation environment have replaced Covid as the main concern facing the industry.Although subdebt is not equity, #MFIs using it acts as a catalyst to growth because they can leverage up and take on more debt...
