NBS Bank Plc is a fully- fledged commercial bank providing a wide range of financial services to individuals, small and medium businesses, large corporations and public institutions with 26 service centres across Malawi.
The Bank in collaboration with FARMSE (a government of Malawi programme supported by IFAD) has a two-year project with aim to increase access to and utilization of formal financial services in rural areas. In line with this objective, the bank intends to create a data base and a credit scoring model for agriculture value chain financing. NBS Bank will be lending out to smallholder farmers in rural areas under associations and cooperatives with offtake arrangements with reliable buyers of their agricultural produce.