Clydestone schools microfinance institutions

Clydestone Ghana Limited, a premiere provider of Information and Communication (ICT) solutions with its partner Craft Silicon, a global software solution house, have organised a Road Show dubbed, “Showing Value through Technology for micro finance institutions” in Accra and Kumasi.

The well attended programmes witnessed a presentation and demonstration of the Micro Finance Core Banking Application and the Mobile Banking solution.

Participants were taken through the functionalities of the solution as well as its ability to effectively and efficiently handle their everyday operational challenges and the issues of fraud and theft, that they contend with on a daily basis.

Craft Silicon solution-(Bankers Realm) core banking with Internet & Mobile banking solution is implemented in over 30 Commercial Banks in Africa, besides several dozen others across the globe.

This well thought out solution comes with well trained engineers to provide around the clock support to users of the application.

The C.E.O of Clydestone, Mr. Paul Jacquaye said our strategic alignment with the MFI is to create a win-win situation, by providing them with a tried and tested, user friendly system, which will help broaden their income and customer base levels.

The system comes with a finger print authentication based POS Terminal and is full proof against theft and fraud by field officers. The mobile banking solution is ideal for banking low income/low literacy groups in remote areas.

The Managing Director of Ezi Savings and Loans, Mr. Jonathan Sam said; “the mobile banking solution has enhanced our operational efficiency and doubled our customer base remarkably over the past year.”

In Ghana, Craft Silicon solutions are deployed in several micro-finance institutions such as Women World Banking Ghana (WWBG), First Allied Savings & Loans, EZI Savings & Loans, Pacific Savings & Loans, Parity Investments and many more.

The partnership between Clydestone and Craft Silicon is strategic for the deployment and support of all clients in the West African sub region.