Bank of Georgia Group Financial Results
Removing barriers that prevent self-employed people from
accessing finance
We redesigned the lending process for self-
employed customers*
Self-employed borrowers
Barriers
Difficulty in calculating a client's
monthly income due to lack of
formal employment
What we changed
Application origination and
disbursement handled in digital
channels
47K
Dec-22
52K
Jun-23
Lack of a digital process for loan
application
Limited access to typical retail
lending products
Full access to retail lending
products (mortgages, consumer
loans, instalments, credit cards,
among others)
Simplified income validation
using video calls and an income
matrix and on-site validation
visits
Loan portfolio of self-employed clients
GEL
Self-employed individuals were
treated process-wise as
business customers and not as
self-employed retail customers
Client coverage and servicing
changed to a retail banking
model
359M
489M
Dec-22
*Self-employed customers are individuals whose share of income from self-employment exceeds 50% and who do not own a business/are not registered as individual entrepreneurs
Jun-23
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