05/02/2020
PROFILE OF MR BUSINESS ENTERPRISE LIMITED
MR Business Enterprise Limited is a MFI and IT consulting firm registered by the Joint Stock Companies & Firms Bangladesh, providing specialized consulting services in the field of microfinance, microenterprise and IT activities. We strive to provide our clients with insights and analyses that can become the basis for practical product and service innovations.
Our Mission
Microfinance, Microenterprise and IT services aims to assist national and International MFI’s and their partners to improve access of poor and very poor households, in Bangladesh and developing countries, to financial services which are flexible, useful and which are financially and institutionally sustainable.
Company Profile
MR Business Enterprise Limited is a specialized consulting firm focusing exclusively on microfinance, Microenterprise and IT. Consulting services are managed from a head office in Kushtia, Bangladesh. In addition to its full-time professional consultants, MR Business Enterprise Limited has an extensive national and international network of handpicked associate consultants throughout Bangladesh and developing countries. These associate consultants are developed and supported through a comprehensive mentoring scheme which involves formal training, pre-assignment briefing and planning support, on the job coaching, debriefing and participatory performance evaluation.
MR Business Enterprise Limited Services provides innovative and highly practical microfinance consulting services that are underscored by a detailed understanding of our clients' operating environment and organizational capacities. These services are founded upon proven microfinance, Microenterprise and IT consulting tools developed internally and through reputable national and international development agencies.
Contact Information
Cell: +880-01720507676, 01878046666
Postal address:
House no. 05, Baitul Zannat Jama Mosjid Road (In front of Police line),
West Mozompur, Kushtia Sador, Kushtia-7000, Bangladesh.
Dhaka Office:
Istiaque Ahmed, House no. 06, Road no. 05, Block no. E, Banasree, Dhaka - 1219. Cell: 01712141440
Electronic mail:
[email protected], [email protected]
Consulting Opportunities
MFIs Consultancy:
We are providing the following support services to improve the Governance and Regulatory Issues of small and medium level MFIs:
• MIS and AIS Development
• Audit and Credit Rating report preparation as per PKSF and MRA format.
• Annual Report preparation.
• Organizational Profile preparation.
• Microfinance operational manual development.
• Contact training on Saving and Credit Management, Monitoring and Supervision, Accounts Management, Governance and Regulatory Issues on MFIs, Microfinance Product Development, Microenterprise Loan selection, processing and Management.
• Service Rule preparation.
• Training material Development.
• Bank Loan Application preparation and processing.
• PKSF and Bangladesh Bank partnership Application paper preparation and processing.
• MRA License Application paper preparation and processing.
• MFIs policy paper Development.
IT Consultancy, installation and supply:
• HRM Solution
• Web Design & Development.
• CC TV Camera Setting & Supply.
• IT Hardware Supply & Installation.
• Digital Attendance Equipment Supply & Setting.
• Software engineering and customization.
• System integration.
• IT Support & Maintenance.
Consultants Profile
Financial Inclusion Specialist Microfinance Services staff has a varied experience in microfinance related issues. It designs and manages development projects that have poverty reduction as their primary purpose and is able to provide technical support in the areas of:
• Microfinance institution (MFI) capacity building and training
• Market research for microfinance product development
• MFI appraisals (institutional and performance analysis)
• Agriculture and rural development
• Policy analysis and formulation
• Microfinance regulation and supervision
The professional staffs are proficient in Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) MFI institutional development tools and training programs as well as Micro save's market research, product development, and marketing methodologies for MFIs. Microfinance Services operates with the support of an extensive national and international network of handpicked associate senior consultants. Microfinance Services has developed a working relationship with every one of these consultants and is confident with their delivery of first class technical expertise microfinance and closely related fields.
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
Md. Abdur Raquib
Chairman, MR Business Enterprise Limited
Mr. Md. Abdur Raquib has 30 years practical experience in the field of Microfinance operation with the last 28 years focusing specifically on poverty reduction, microfinance regulation, policy development, microfinance product development and digital finance. An agriculturalist and agro-economist by training and practical working experience Mr. Md. Abdur Raquib has, become widely experienced in the fields of financial inclusion and poverty reduction. Mr. Md. Abdur Raquib has extensive experience in design, implementation and evaluation of financial inclusion/microfinance programmes as well as in assisting small and medium level MFI’s in policy development to support financial inclusion. Mr. Md. Abdur Raquib has been involved in the development of, and subsequent delivery of, CGAP microfinance training and consulting materials including the CGAP institutional appraisal format and Business Planning format. Mr. Md. Abdur Raquib also has practical experience in project management, in the role of Team Leader and Project Director.
Mr. Md. Abdur Raquib has strong experience in the design and conduct of microfinance market research leading to the development of client-focused products and cost-effective delivery systems as well as the financial analysis of microfinance institutions and MFI’s regulation and supervision of microfinance.
Mr. Md. Abdur Raquib has a specific interest in the design of sustainable microfinance products adapted to the financial needs of micro-entrepreneurs, and which are capable of including the very poor and remote rural communities. This includes the use of digital solutions such as mobile phone financing which has the potential to revolutionise access to microfinance in remote regions and dramatically reduce costs and efficiency of product delivery. Mr. Md. Abdur Raquib has worked in widely differing environments throughout Asia, the Pacific and Africa. Mr. Md. Abdur Raquib has worked for the BRAC Afghanistan, and a variety of national NGOs.
