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Microfinance on the wane at NAB

NAB is on track to reach a target of one million financially excluded citizens, CEO Andrew Thorburn declared in the bank's 2015 annual report.Alongside NGO Good Shepherd Microfinance NAB said it "helped over 394,000 low income Australians with low and no interest loans."This number relates to A$28 million in microfinance loans over the year to September 2015, down $6 million over one year.

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