AccessBank Tajikistan JSC

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AccessBank Tajikistan JSC (Tajik Access or the project) is a greenfield microfinance bank which will be headquartered in Dushanbe (the country’s capital) towards the end of the second quarter/beginning of third quarter of 2008. Operating under a commercial bank license granted by the National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT), the country’s Central Bank, Tajik Access will seek to offer a broad range of financial services to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in Tajikistan. It is the sponsor’s vision that Tajik Access will become the leading microfinance/SME bank in Tajikistan and will set new standards in the country’s banking sector in terms of professionalism, transparency and efficiency. The project will initially focus on providing credit to micro and small businesses (on the basis of a cash flow-oriented credit technology), as well as basic savings and payments services.