3rd Global Islamic Microfinance Forum6 - 8 October 2013
Dusit Thani Hotel - Dubai
Rohana Abdul Munim General Manager Malaysia
Head of Islamic Finance Strategic InitiativesPath Solutions
IT Solutions for the Islamic Microfinance Industry
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Possible Challenges in Islamic Microfinance
Financial products that comply with Shariah law
Diversity of products to cater for the Islamic Microfinance requirements
Sustainable business models that incorporate operational efficiency and risk management
IT solution that can support and drive the Islamic Microfinance activity
Capacity building at both the macro and micro levels
Sources of funding
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Ultimate Goal for the Islamic Microfinance Industry
Create successful and prudent Microfinance sector that can bring impact to the socio economic development among the poor
Moving from poverty alleviation to entrepreneurial development as a natural progression and outcome of the Microfinance program
Create growth and self-sustainable Microfinance organizations, and reduce reliance on external sources of funding
Microfinance as an effective platform for financial inclusion among the unbanked, voluntarily or involuntarily financial excluded segment
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Usage of IT in Islamic Finance and Microfinance
Systematic data management, consolidation and reporting
Bird’s eye view of the organization achievement and growth
Improve productivity and efficiency at both operational and business level
Shariah compliant processes and behaviour
Support diversity of products and innovation
Support growth and sustainability of the organization
Proper risk management and reporting
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About Path Solutions
Path is a Kuwaiti Shareholding Company
Founded in (as an IT Consultancy Firm) November 1992
Beirut development center October 2000
Bahrain support office October 2003
London support office February 2007
Kuala Lumpur support office September 2007
Karachi support office April 2009
Riyadh support office August 2009
Jakarta support office November 2009
Khartoum support office December 2009
Egypt( development center), Dubai, Kenya, Singapore 2010
India support office July 2013
Upcoming support center in Oman
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Our Vision
To be the most trusted and innovative provider of information technology solutions and services for the global financial industry & in specific the Islamic Financial industry.
High quality in our products and services is vital to the success of our customers and partners. In helping our customers and partners become successful, we must strive to maintain the highest ethical standards and integrity. To achieve these goals, it is our policy to involve all employees in programs to improve our products, services, and the productivity of our internal processes.
Mohammed KateebChairman & CEO
Quality Code
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Our People
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1992 1997 2005 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013
6 20 64 120 205398 450 375 400 485
Employees Count
Year Employees
6 Employees in 1993
20+ Employees in 1997
64+ Employee in 2005
120+ Employees in 2006
205+ Employees in 2007
398 Employees in 2008
450 Employees in 2010
375 Employees in 2011
400 Employees in 2012
485 Employees in 2013
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Our Expert Resources
Path team constitutes of full time consultants in the areas of:
Finance
Banking & Investment
IT development
System Engineering
Accounting, Internal & System audit
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Area of Focus
Path offering consists of integrated business solutions and services for the following major business segments:
Islamic Banks
Islamic Investment Companies
Islamic Consumer Finance Companies
Islamic Microfinance Institutions
Universal Banks
Investment Companies and Fund Managers
Financing Companies
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Our Products and Services
Project management
Business and technology consulting
Systems integration
Business continuity planning (Make sure of the plan )
Customization - address clients specific needs (Plan matching with the solution)
On going maintenance and first line of support
Our Services Offering include
Our Products Offering include
Islamic Core Banking Solution - iMAL Islamic Window Solution - iWINDOW Financial institutions, SMEs and Microfinance Organizations - iSHRAQ
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iSHRAQ for Islamic Microfinance Industry
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Common Components
Business Parties
Collaterals
Products & Assets
Service Bus
Back Office Core Banking Credit Bureaus Legacy Systems
• Portfolio & Asset management• Fund management• Sukuk management• Private equity
Investment
Islamic Financing
Islamic Treasury
General Ledger
Approval Workflow
Common Components
Swift
Data Mart
Security
Scheduled Tasks
iSHRAQ Product Suite
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Functional Architecture
1
•Multiple Organization
2
•Multiple Companies
3
•Multiple Branches
4
•Multiple Currencies
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Functional Architecture
5
•Multilingual / Localization
6
•Real Time Processing
7
•Back Date Transaction
8
•Task List
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System Architecture – N Tier
Database Tier
Presentation Tier
Control Logic
Business Tier
Data Access Tier
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iSHRAQ Product Suite – Technology Roadmap
• Application Server : .Net • Dbase : Oracle, MS-SQL
Existing
• Application Server : + JAVA • Dbase : + Sybase
Future
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iSHRAQ*Finance – Main Components
Facility Management
Corporate and retail finance
contracts
Contract maintenance transactions
Business Parties
Approval Workflow Engine
Collaterals Management
Provision Management Charge scheme
Collection and Settlement
Limit Management
Scoring Scheme
Transaction, performance, and statistical reports
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Business Entities in Finance – Legal Entities
Vendors
Sales Agents
Market makers
Credit information Providers
Constructors
Clearance companies
Central Banks
Banks
Guarantors
Financers
Customers
Employees
Financial Facilitator
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Is Your Customer Credit Worthy?
Individual and Corporate Financial
Statements
External Credit Scoring
Weighing Individual and
Corporate parameters
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Repayment – Setup
Define Installment Intervals
Define Profit Type (Fixed, Floating)
Define Profit Calculation Method
Define Profit Distribution Method
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Charges – Setup
• Taxes• General
Insurance• Financial
Institution Fees
• Customer• Financial
Institution
• Per Transaction• Per Installment• Periodic
• Fixed• Variable
• Percentage• Base Rate +
Offset %• Multi Tier
Charge Category Payer
Charge Occurrenc
eCharges
Value
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Collateral – SetupAsset Rating
Select Financial Product
Asset Selection + Coverage%
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Approval Work Flow – Setup
• Individual
• Committee (Assembled/Circulating)
Assign Decision Making
• Review Only
• Decision
Define Number Of Nodes per Approval Work Flow
• Retail
• Corporate
Define Product
• Principle
• Profit Rate
• Others
Define Assessment Factor
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Financial Product – Setup
Repayment PlanChargesCollaterals Others
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Financial Product – Setup
Automatic matching between sub products and
applicants (based on applicant's attributes
)
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Limit Management
Levels
• Transaction• Per Period• Exposure
Factors• Financial Product Class or Investment Asset Class• Financial Product or Investment Asset• Currency• Customer Sector/Category/specific• Customer• Region/Nationality • User Group/specific user
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Provision – Setup
Define Sectors
Define Financial Products
Set Provision Rate According To Debt Aging
Set Specific Customer
Set Specific Contract
Set Provision Value
Set Calculation Provision Period
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Contract Maintenance Transactions
Change Orders
Full Early Settlement
Partial Early Settlement
Contract Revolving
Contract Switching
Reschedule
Repayment Plans Merging
Profit and Expenses Declaration
Installment Dropping
Item Sale
Contract Termination
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Collection and Settlements
• Continuous Follow up until Payment
• Escalations, Customer Buckets’ Maintenance
• Follow up• Collector performance• Bucket performance• other
• SMS• Mails• Calls • Visits • Legal
• Customer Bucket Level 0• Customer Bucket Level 1• ….• Customer Bucket Level N
Bucket Criteria- Reminder- Past due - follow up
Collector - Collection Intelligent Notes.- Customer Contract, contacts details & Responses history
Customer Response
Reports
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Collection and Settlements
Stan
ding
In
stru
ction
(SI)
Bank Transfer
Cash SettlementsMobile PaymentPayment
History/Tracking
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Campaign Booking Follow-up & Maintenance Post-Maturity
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Applicant visit
Application filling
Primary approval
Encouragement meetings
Commitment fee payment
Attendance tracking to induction course
Collection of attendance fee
Campaign
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Collection of required financing application
documents
Agreement on financing amount and repayment
tenure
Final Approval
Takaful coverage
Group forming, leader selection, and setting the
periodical meeting date / location
Financing disbursement
Booking
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Periodical meetings for payment collection
Periodical visits to follow up on the usage of fund
Maintenance for the financing facility:
Financing rescheduling
Early settlement
Financing cancellation
Arbitration closures
Follow-up
& Maintenance
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Compliance with Microfinance program will
allow members to:
Apply other financing programs before or
after current financing maturity
Apply similar financing program after its
maturity with greater amounts
Post Maturity
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Thank You!
www.path-solutions.com
If you are interested to know more about iSHRAQ offering, please contact:
Rohana Abdul [email protected]
Mobile: +6012-3349020
192 Ahmad Block, New Garden Town, Lahore - Pakistan.Ph: (92-42) 35913096 - 98, Fax: (92-42) 35913056
Email: [email protected]
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