World Bank Managing Director of Operations meets ComBank’s Anagi customers in Jaffna

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World Bank Managing Director Operations Anna Bjerde during her interactions with the group of Commercial Bank Anagi customers and officials of the IFC, JICA, USAID, and ADB in Jaffna

A group of women entrepreneurs supported by Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC via the bank’s Anagi Women’s Banking portfolio of products and services inspired the visiting World Bank Managing Director Operations Anna Bjerde when she met them in Jaffna recently.

Bjerde met a few Anagi customers, together with other World Bank officials, Country Heads of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and Asian Development Bank (ADB) at a roundtable discussion to review the progress of the Anagi Women’s Banking portfolio, two years after the bank launched the portfolio through an engagement with the IFC under the IFC-DFAT Women in Work program. Shortly after the meeting, Bjerde paid tribute to the passion and determination of the women entrepreneurs in a post on her Twitter account.

Commercial Bank’s ‘Anagi Women’s Banking’ portfolio comprises of the ‘Anagi Women’s Savings Account’ and the ‘Anagi Business Loan for Women SMEs’ that provides female entrepreneurs with loans for working capital or investment purposes. The bank has also launched an ‘Anagi’ branded Near-field Communication (NFC) enabled Credit Card from Mastercard in the Gold and Platinum tiers with a host of special benefits exclusively for women.