On December 19, 2024, Ms. Pin Manika, Manager of Marketing and Business Development of Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia (CGCC), participated as a guest speaker in the program “My Money, My Life”, produced by Women’s Radio, supported by the Association of Banks in Cambodia (ABC), in which the topic was designed to raise public awareness about CGCC, conditions and procedures for obtaining guarantees, and especially the benefits of credit guarantee mechanisms for businesses. 

Through this program, Ms. Manika shared about the role, products, and services of CGCC to inform the public for more awareness of CGCC and enable business owners to benefit from using credit guarantee services by applying for business loans to CGCC’s Participating Financial Institutions including banks/microfinance institutions, in cases of lack or insufficient collateral. She also highlighted success story of a woman business owner who applied for guaranteed loan from CGCC’s partnered bank, giving more access to loans for essential uses. In addition, she also shared about CGCC’s involvement in capacity building and improving financial literacy for SMEs, which is one of CGCC’s priorities. 

As a recommendation and suggestion to business owners especially SMEs, she encouraged them to be well prepared to receive formal loans by preparing financial reports correctly and according to standards in order to develop themselves into standard business companies in the long term, and requested CGCC’s PFIs to continue to further promote to all employees and branches about CGCC’s credit guarantee services, which can help ease collateral requirements and improve SME’s access to formal loans.