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Common Interest hosted 18 members from the Bank of Thailand (BOT) on Friday. The purpose of the trip was for the the BOT to get a better understanding of current microfinance programs being offered in the country...
Dec 8, 2009Common Interest is hosting a 20-member team from the Bank of Thailand (BOT) this Friday. Senior policy directors from Bangkok will be arriving into Chiang Mai to spend the day learning more about Common Interest and its microfinance program...
Oct 31 - Common Interest held is annual conference today. 87 women representing every Village Bank in Phrao, Mae Taeng, Mae Wang, Mae Chaem, Chomtong and Sankamphaeng were in attendance. The morning session was held at Nakorn Payap International School with a guest speaker from Bangkok...
Common Interest is pleased to announce that it has been accepted as a member into the Banking with the Poor Network...
People in Europe can now support the work of Common Interest through the Braz Foundation. The Braz Foundation is a Netherlands based non-profit organization that works with microfinance institutions in developing countries...
Sept 24, 2009Common Interest presented its Village Banking program at the Echo Asia Agricultural Conference in Chiang Mai yesterday. Participants from all over South and South-East Asia attended this bi-annual conference as a way to network and share information and experiences from their regions...
PRESS RELEASE(Sept 23, 2009)Recent announcements from the Bank of Thailand (BOT) have suggested that a new priority will be to promote the microfinance industry in the country...
As mentioned in a previous post, Common Interest has been collecting data on its retention rate. Village Banking historically has had the lowest retention rate among the various microfinance methodologies...
(Multiple Groups make payments at once in Mae Taeng).We have been trying to find ways to cut costs while providing our services to more villages. With only one vehicle, we are limited in the amount of groups that we can visit in any given day...
Common Interest has been spending some time looking at itsRetention Rates is an important topic for MFIs. Adding new members is must more costly than providing loans to repeat members. Inevitably, some members will not take subsequent loans...
As of June 2, 2009, membership in our microfinance program exceeded 1000 members. A total of 1153 women in 44 Village Banks are now part of the Northern Thailand Microfinance Programme. These statistics are a 53% increase from our April numbers...
(Multiple Groups make payments at once in Mae Taeng).We have been trying to find ways to cut costs while providing our services to more villages. With only one vehicle, we are limited in the amount of groups that we can visit in any given day...
Common Interest International We're revising our Mission statement. We'd love to hear feedback from our followers: By providing loans, business training and other financial services to lower income entrepreneurs, Common Interest enables people to create jobs, build assets and improve the standard of living for themselves, their families and their communities.
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