SME division of BRAC Bank Ltd.

This internship report is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration,2015.

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מחבר ראשי: Shafiq, Shamprikta
מחברים אחרים: Siddiqui, Sayla Sowat
פורמט: Internship report
שפה:English
יצא לאור: BRAC University 2015
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spelling 10361-40032019-09-30T03:44:34Z SME division of BRAC Bank Ltd. Shafiq, Shamprikta Siddiqui, Sayla Sowat BRAC Business School, BRAC University Business administration SME This internship report is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration,2015. Cataloged from PDF version of Internship report. This report aims toward providing an overview on the functions of SME Divisions ofBRAC Bank Ltd. While preparing this report, it has been attempted to disclose the insights of the overall operation of the bank. In addition, a few recommendations and suggestions were also prescribed based on the observation and findings. The BRAC Bank Ltd. is a private commercial bank which is operated by the Banking Companies Act 1991. It was established in May10,1999 with a view to providing financial assistance including all kinds of banking facilities to accelerate the pace of development to small industry of Bangladesh. Advanced expansion of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) can help to cut poverty to a satisfactory level by eliminating various prejudices against labor intensive industry and creating jobs for the skilled manpower in the SME sector. However, the access to financing is still recognized as the leading obstacle to SME growth in Bangladesh, alike most other developing and under-developed countries. Small and medium entrepreneurship have a tremendous potential in empowering potential entrepreneurs and transforming society. To target this sector with huge potentiality BRAC Bank Ltd introduced SME Banking Division in 2001. BRAC Bank SME division was set up to capture “Missing Middle” and to create socio-economic impact in the country. Within 11 years of establishing it has proved its success through becoming country’s largest SME finance provider and 4th large SME provider in the world in terms of lending volume. For the inheriting business risk, SME sector is facing several constrains in terms of growth. Policy level complexity, financial constraints, legal bindings and industry structure are hindering financial institutions to support SME sector. Lack of SME supporters, poor infrastructure of the country, lack of entrepreneur’s skills, lender-borrower gap, huge market competitions are the major drawbacks for both borrowers and lenders. Again SME sector has tremendously contributed in the economy. Today it has been considered as the engine of country’s economy. Being country’s largest SME provider, BRAC Bank is facing several challenges which are identified in analytical part of the report. Business risk, high interest rate, high defaulter rate, certain government policy change etc. are the major challenges facing by BRAC Bank. At the same time BRAC Bank has a large number of defaulters. Even though strict loan approval system is maintained, due to some unavoidable reason “bad-losses” sometimes occur. In order to reduce credit risk BRAC Bank follows consistent monitoring system upon borrower’s activities. Again if someone turns in to defaulter special wing called SAM works to enforce law. The recommendation part of the report strived to find out some steps could be initiated by BRAC Bank in order to overcome existing weakness. A more effective loan approval system, strong monitoring activities, and entrepreneurs meeting arrangement could improve BRAC bank’s performance. Shamprikta Shafiq B. Business Administration 2015-02-10T09:16:07Z 2015-02-10T09:16:07Z 2015 2015-02-07 Internship report ID 10104167 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/4003 en BRAC University Internship reports are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 52 pages application/pdf BRAC University
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SME
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SME
Shafiq, Shamprikta
SME division of BRAC Bank Ltd.
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