| Why MicroPlanet? |
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Microfinance is a powerful poverty reduction tool, but at the end of the day, it is also a business. Microfinance institutions have to manage credit risk, operating costs, capital raising, regulatory issues, and overall profitability, all the while trying to grow their businesses by creating new product offerings and reaching out to new customers.
The complexity of these many issues cannot be effectively managed without information technology, most importantly Core Banking Systems and the experienced IT people needed to run them. Unfortunately, while the need for these systems has become universally recognized, few institutions have successfully deployed them.
Enter MicroPlanet Technologies. MicroPlanet’s mission is to provide microfinance institutions affordable access to state-of-the-art technology combined with world-class systems support.
Our primary offering—Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS—brings together a robust and scalable core banking software platform with a team of highly experienced microfinance technology specialists to create a powerful hosted and managed core banking solution. |
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- The Platform: We offer a core banking software platform that provides comprehensive and highly parameterizable capabilities that effectively address the strategic and day-to-day challenges faced by microfinance institutions and banks. It provides the much-needed flexibility to innovate and adapt to a dynamic environment, and improve operational process efficiencies, customer service, and cost-effectiveness. Most importantly, it is highly scalable, allowing it to meet the needs of both unregulated and regulated microfinance institutions and banks as they grow and evolve.
- The Team: Technology without a qualified team to manage it is a recipe for failure. MicroPlanet has brought together a team of highly experienced microfinance technology specialists. From core banking software to network infrastructure, from help desk support to running management reports and end-of-day processes, our team stands ready to utilize technology as a tool to make microfinance institutions smarter, leaner, more operationally efficient, and ultimately better at serving their clients.
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| Who we are |
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MicroPlanet Technologies, Inc. is a non-profit entity that was formed with the objective of serving the technology needs of microfinance institutions, and thereby helping them to scale their operations and ultimately reach more of the unbanked poor. While we charge for our technology solutions and services, we do not retain profits, which allows us to offer state-of-the-art solutions at highly competitive prices. There may be cheaper options available, but we are confident that no one can beat our combination of price and value in delivering robust, scalable technology solutions for the microfinance sector.
MicroPlanet brings a deep reservoir of microfinance sector experience. From our CEO (former CIO of FINCA) to our network operations center (over 10 years experience supporting global microfinanceinstitutions), our team shares a deep commitment to the growth and scalability of the microfinance sector, and has the technology skills to back it up. |
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