Assessment of the Challenges Faced by Microfinance Banks in Recovering Loans from Customers in Ibadan North Local Government Area, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Timilehin Grace Sodiyan; Opeyemi Folorunso Sigbeku

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Assessment of the Challenges Faced by Microfinance Banks in Recovering Loans from Customers in Ibadan North Local Government Area, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Timilehin Grace Sodiyan, Opeyemi Folorunso Sigbeku

Published in International Journal of Finance and Banking Research (Volume 8, Issue 5)

Received: 18 October 2022 Accepted: 9 November 2022 Published: 23 November 2022

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The Nigerian economy is currently in a state of decline as a considerable amount of its population is living below the global poverty line. The influence of the poor economy has brought high inflation that ran most businesses into debt, depleted capital and defaulted from repaying loans to financial institutions backing them. This further created a problem of loan recovery for both microfinance banks and commercial banks. Therefore, this study was conducted to assess the challenges facing these microfinance banks in recovering loans from customers and appraise their financial performance and sustainability. This was a banking institution-based descriptive cross-sectional study that utilized the qualitative method of data collection to elicit information on status of loan recovery, challenges influencing loan recovery, effects on their financial performance and sustainability. The interviews were conducted with the aid of Key-informant interview guide and recorded using digital audio recorder. The audio recordings were transcribed verbatim, analysed using ATLAS. ti version 8 and presented using thematic analysis and description. This study shows that loan recovery status is fair among those MFBs assessed. Also, the micro-finance banks face challenges that are policy-related, customer-related, poor documentation processing and poor staff attitude in recovering their loans. Decline in Economy, COVID-19 Pandemic and inflation were the factors responsible for the challenges. The poor loan recovery reportedly led to increase in high-risk portfolio, reduction in stakeholder’s profit and investment and inability to meet target profit and bank foreclosure. It was concluded that loan recovery status is not as expected as a fair repayment rate was reported. The challenges highlighted were from both banks and the customers, therefore, microfinance banking industry should endeavour to provide flexible loan packages to customers in order to reduce their burden and put all the necessary measures in place to check the lapses on the part of staff.

Published in	International Journal of Finance and Banking Research (Volume 8, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijfbr.20220805.11
Page(s)	131-135
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Loan Recovery, Loan Defaults, Loan Repayment, Microfinance Banks, MSMEs, Financial Institutions, Economy, Nigeria

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Timilehin Grace Sodiyan

Faculty of School of Business, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Opeyemi Folorunso Sigbeku

Department of Oral Pathology and Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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