Money can also be collected at branches of Safaricom, one of Kenya's largest mobile phone operators, and then deducted from the borrower's pay packet at the end of the month.
This is also likely to have an impact on the number of branches.
Christie was a Labour party member: for decades the position had alternated between these two political branches of the movement.
I didn't realise Podemos had a London branch – all branches are called circles, or "circulos" – until I met Sirio Canós Donnay at a Compass meeting.
One pair of these birds made their appearance at the latter end of February, and, after cautiously surveying the place, began to construct a nest with branches which they very dextrously broke from the trees.
Tip-bearers are less common and produce fruit at the tips of branches, rather than on short spurs.
And when you get home it will be a while before you forget the casual whoop of the tree frogs at nightfall or the magnificent flamboyant trees with their thick, confident branches and shocking red-feather tops.
Possibly in an attempt to buttress itself against the day the oil runs out, the city is building a museum complex called Saadiyat Island, which will feature branches of not just the Guggenheim (again) but the Louvre as well.
From its peak of more than half a million members in the 1950s, the WI now claims 212,000 adherents in 6,600 branches around the country, making it still the biggest women's voluntary organisation in the UK.
I loved the branches of retro-styled groceries Bi-Rite Market (in The Mission and Western Addition), with their lustworthy displays of local produce.
There are different branches of Uncomms, including the Unapology, for when you're obliged to say sorry for something you don't regret; the Unimpression, by which you can convince people that you are competent and reliable, whatever the reality; and the Unpledge, the promise you have no intention of keeping.
