{"id":320685,"date":"2026-10-24T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=320685"},"modified":"2026-10-24T07:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T02:10:04","slug":"digital-empowerment-of-microfinance-sector-by-sct-diprox-microfinance-becomes-the-first-microfinance-institution-to-issue-cards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/digital-empowerment-of-microfinance-sector-by-sct-diprox-microfinance-becomes-the-first-microfinance-institution-to-issue-cards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Empowerment of Microfinance Sector by SCT Diprox Microfinance becomes the first microfinance institution to issue cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Smart Choice Technologies Limited (SCT), a leading company licensed by the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) and Deprox Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Limited, which is licensed by Nepal Rastra Bank for class &#8216;D&#8217;, have signed an agreement related to card service and digital payments. <\/p>\n<p>After this agreement, the customers and members of Diprox Laghubitta will now be able to directly benefit from modern digital payment services and card facilities like customers of commercial banks, development banks and other financial institutions. Deprox Laghubitta will provide digital payment facilities to its customers through a network of national and international standards operated by SCT. <\/p>\n<p>The representative of the organization said that this historic collaboration will play an important role in bringing modern financial technology (Fintech) and digital banking services to the rural and underprivileged sections of Nepal. Recognizing that the microfinance sector has to rely solely on traditional digital mediums, the launch of the card service by Diprox Microfinance is a significant milestone for overall financial inclusion and the development of a modern fintech ecosystem. <\/p>\n<p>SCT, which has been moving forward with the goal of bringing modern payment technology to every section of the society since its inception, embraces its new mantra &#8220;Network for All&#8221; and through this innovative collaboration, it aims to connect the customers of the microfinance sector with secure, easy, and modern digital payment services. SCT believes that this initiative will contribute significantly to making the country&#8217;s digital financial system more robust, inclusive, and accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Smart Choice Technologies Limited (SCT), a leading company licensed by the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) and Deprox Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Limited, which is licensed by Nepal Rastra Bank for class &#8216;D&#8217;, have signed an agreement related to card service and digital payments. After this agreement, the customers and members of Diprox Laghubitta will now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":320683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45117,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bank-finance-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320686,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320685\/revisions\/320686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/320683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}