Finance Sector: News Releases

ADB has approved a $50 million loan for a project that will improve the livelihoods and increase incomes of small farmers in Nepal by helping them in the financing, development, and operations of rural enterprises.

Digital technologies could bring new opportunities to provide financial services to vast underserved populations in Asia and the Pacific. People need to be well-prepared for this wave of emerging technologies, but governments should also...

ADB and Cambodia’s Ministry of Economy and Finance today signed two agreements worth $89 million that will boost rural areas’ access to water supply and sanitation services and improve the country’s financial sector...

ADB has approved a $100 million local currency equivalent loan to help expand the lending operations of HSCBK, the main institution implementing government housing  finance programs in the country. This will allow more than...

ADB has approved a $40 million policy-based loan for the second phase of a program that is supporting the Government of Cambodia’s efforts to develop an efficient and stable financial sector that promotes greater financial...

Commercially oriented state-owned banks can help provide much-needed financing for businesses in the Pacific, but only if they strictly adhere to commercial principles and regulations, says a new ADB report.

ADB has approved a $25 million syndicated loan to support the lending operations of Kashf Foundation, one of Pakistan’s leading microfinance service providers, to low-income households and women-led MSMEs.

ADB has appointed Ms. Lotte Schou-Zibell as the new Regional Director of its Pacific Liaison and Coordination Office (PLCO) based in Sydney.

ADB, the Government of Sri Lanka, and the Regional Development Bank today signed Loan and Guarantee Agreements to further assist Sri Lanka to provide affordable and accessible credit to rural micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises.

More than 3,200 people graduated today from a financial education training program conducted under the Microfinance Expansion Project, a project supported by ADB and the governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea.