YOUNG PAKISTAN MICROFINANCE BOSS IS PIONEER IN HELPING THE POOR INVEST THEMSELVES INTO SUSTAINABLE INCOMES
March 2nd, 2020
Kabeer Naqvi, CEO of U Microfinance Bank Ltd, one of Pakistan’s fastest growing businesses, is clearly a man in a hurry. His bank - branded U Bank - is digitising quickly as it grows its deposits and its important lending business, that is pulling many thousands of Pakistanis out of poverty and into lives of sustainably growing income.
Speaking at U Bank’s headquarters in Jinnah Super Market, a high-end shopping district in the Pakistan capital Islamabad, Naqvi says such lending can have real impact in a country such as Pakistan, where the annual gross ...
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