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WE ARE NOT YET A BANK | THE CREDIT COOPERATIVE BANK FOR DEVELOPMENT (CCBD) - PH: 004179-944 9360
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Everybody starts small. We all begin life as a single cell. Every business starts with one person with an idea. You control how fast and how far you travel.The bigger your vision, the bigger your achievement will be. Will you stumble along the way? Perhaps, but we cannot let fear keep us small. We have to be brave to be big. Adam Global.
"Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination." Mae Jemison is an astronaut.
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II floats untethered away from the safety of the space shuttle, with nothing but his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him alive. The first person in history to do so
TO MAKE IT HAPPEN, we formed Task Force Eagle (TFE), an ambitious group of talented and experienced financial industry risk takers. TFE is launching a development bank based in Switzerland (with co-headquarters in the Balkans) and liaison offices in London and San
Francisco. The plan is to become a multinational investment bank and major financial services company. The mission of creating and providing alternative credit instruments in compliance with local bank laws and international standards
"Cultivating Solidarity and Equity in the Long Term for Leveraging Agribusiness"
We comply with the USP (Universal Social Protection) created by the UN in New York on September 21 to inaugurate the Global Partnership for Universal Social Protection and launch 23 country experiences to show that universal social protection is feasible in developing countries. Heads of state, the World Bank Group, and the International Labour Organization convened to support the SDGs.
Photo 1: B. Nyembo's presentation at the Palais des Nations in Geneva: A focus on development tools, with a case study of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Photo 2: B. Nyembo in our office in Kinshasa (2014)
A SYNOPSIS.
"There are three kinds of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask, "What did happen?" Casey Stengel.
CCBD does not yet have the status of a bank, and we do not perform any banking activities. While waiting for registration with the Banque Centrale du Congo (BCC), we hosted our activities with our service company, named Megane-Le-Mans, or MLM.
The purpose of this platform is to serve as a depository for the secretary and to organize the work papers prior to the registration of the bank.
Picture 1: Bernard Nyembo with Benjamin William Mkapa, former president of the United Republic of Tanzania. Picture 2: Bernard with "Baba" (the wiser man), Olusegun Obasanjo, the former President of Nigeria.
The aim of our framework is to enhance agribusiness value chains and promote trade. Our proposal has a lot of momentum that we cannot afford to lose.
CORE VALUES:
We know what is meant by poverty, misery, and suffering in poor communities. Our values stand for our win-win attitude: "Better a little with fear of the Lord than a great fortune with anxiety." (Bible, Proverbs, Chap. 15, v. 16) In other words, transparency in pursuing happiness
ABOUT RISKS
We dare risks. We pursue our objectives with the clear vision of an eagle. We act with prudence, tenacity, and the resilience of an alpinist. Our risk components include matrices like the Risk Management Framework (RMF). It helps in the earlier identification and mitigation of any danger faced by CCBD or individuals associated with our operations.
Picture 1: Bernard Nyembo with M. Roberto Azevędo, the General Director of the World Trade Organization.
Picture 2: B. Nyembo with Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the General Director of the World Health Organization.
FACILITATING CREDIT
Our future bank is designed to facilitate collateral and credit for attracting ethical investments and job creation in the DR Congo, a subcontinent with 80 million inhabitants covering the surface area of continental Europe and eight times the area of France.
Explaining why a cooperative bank is critical "Launching a Cooperative Bank for Development to Leverage Ethical Entrepreneurship" The full text in French is available on request sent to "Task Force EAGLE": cbankdev@yahoo.com.
Picture 1: Bernard Nyembo at the Lindonge Community Center, Kinshasa
Image 2: Following a meeting with the World Bank in Geneva
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GENDER AND TERMINOLOGY
• In our texts, we often use the term "bank" as well as the present tense instead of the future tense. Please do not hold it against us.
• "Ethics" stands for our values, essentially respect, due diligence, efficiency, and trust.
• The words "Congo," "DRC, and "DR Congo" are synonyms for the Democratic Republic of Congo.
• For convenience reasons, in our texts, we use only the masculine gender; it refers implicitly to both men and women, masculine and feminine.
