Commercial banks including Thailand’s Kiatnakin Bank and Siam Commercial Bank (SCB); India’s Tamilnad Mercantile Bank (TMB); and the Netherlands’ ING Bank, recently announced the disbursement of a syndicated loan of USD 65 million to Cambodian microfinance institution (MFI) Prasac Microfinance Limited.
Category: Eastern Europe and Central Asia
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: United Nations Announces Goals of “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”
The United Nations recently released the final version of, “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” highlighting 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) with 169 associated targets intended to eradicate poverty by the year 2030.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: India’s Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency (MUDRA) Bank Loans $5.5m to Microfinance Institution (MFI) Satin Creditcare
The Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency (MUDRA) Bank, an Indian public-sector financial institution that provides subsidized loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs) and non-banking financial institutions, recently announced that it has disbursed a loan of INR 350 million (approximately USD 5.5 million) to Satin Creditcare Network Limited, a for profit MFI based in Delhi, India.
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Uniglobal to Host Fifth Annual Central Asian and Caucasus Microfinance Forum, Tbilisi, Georgia, October 1-2, 2015
Event Name: Fifth Annual Central Asian and Caucasus Microfinance Forum
Event Date: October 1-2, 2015
Event Location: Tbilisi Marriott Hotel, Tbilisi, Georgia
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Green For Growth Fund Disburses $22m to ProCredit Bank Serbia to Support Lending for Energy Efficiency Projects
The Green for Growth Fund, Southeast Europe (GGF), a Luxembourg-based investment vehicle that supports energy-efficient initiatives in Southeast Europe, recently disbursed a senior loan of EUR 20 million (USD 22 million) to ProCredit Bank Serbia (PBS), a commercial bank that is specialized in lending to micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Serbia.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: C-Quadrat Asset Management’s Vision Microfinance Funds Issue $5.5m in Credits to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Georgia, India, Mongolia, Nicaragua
During July 2015, Austrian asset manager C-Quadrat Asset Management issued loans worth USD 6 million via its two Vision Microfinance funds to unspecified microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Georgia, India, Mongolia and Nicaragua.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Symbiotics Issues $26m in Bonds for Coopeservidores Cooperative of Costa Rica; Fusion Microfinance, Suryoday of India
Symbiotics, a Switzerland-based for-profit investment intermediary, recently issued bonds for Coopeservidores, a Costa Rican savings and credit cooperative, in the amount of USD 12.5 million; Fusion Microfinance, an Indian microfinance institution (MFI), in the amount of USD 7 million; and Suryoday Microfinance Private Limited (Suryoday), another Indian MFI, in the amount of USD 6.8 million.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Mutual Funds in India Invest $157m in Secured Debentures of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) Equitas, Janalakshmi, SKS, Ujjivan
Several mutual funds based in India, including Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) Prudential Mutual Fund, Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) Mutual Fund, Kotak Mutual Fund, Reliance Mutual Fund and State Bank of India (SBI) Mutual Fund, recently invested in secured debentures issued by several Indian microfinance institutions (MFIs).
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: 179 NGO Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) Receive Conditional License To Operate in Bangladesh
A group of 179 non-governmental microfinance institutions (MFIs) recently received conditional licenses to operate in Bangladesh for three years. The licenses were granted by the country’s Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA), a government agency that supervises the transparency and accountability of MFIs in the country.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Grameen Credit Agricole Microfinance Foundation Loans $424k to Sri Lanka’s Janamithu Lanka Limited, $841k to Tajikistan’s Humo and Partners
The Grameen Credit Agricole Microfinance Foundation (GCAMF), a Luxembourg-based provider of financial services to microfinance institutions (MFIs) and other social businesses, recently informed MicroCapital that it has issued the following two loans: (1) The equivalent of EUR 462,000 (approximately USD 424,000) in local currency over three years to Janamithu Lanka Limited (JLL), a microfinance institution (MFI) in Sri Lanka that offers loans to poor people for education and asset building; and (2) EUR 850,000 (approximately USD 841,000) over one year to Humo and Partners, a Tajikistan-based MFI founded by the local affiliate of Switzerland-based nongovernmental organization CARE International. The MFI lends mainly to farmers and other rural entrepreneurs [1].
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Considers $22m Credit to Belinvestbank of Belarus for On-Lending to Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs)
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), a multilateral investment institution headquartered in London, is considering extending a credit line of EUR 20 million (USD 22 million) to Belinvestbank (BIB), a state-owned bank in Belarus.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: MetLife Foundation Donates $1.8m to Opportunity International to Support Financial Access through Microfinance, Education in Rural China
MetLife Foundation, an affiliate of the Chicago-based insurance company MetLife, recently announced the disbursement of USD 1.8 million in grant funding to Opportunity International, a microfinance NGO also based in the US city of Chicago, to support its outreach via bank branches and mobile vans in rural China.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Société Générale Loans $21.2m to Microenterprises in Serbia; European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Guarantees $10.6m in Support of Financial Inclusion Via VisionFund’s AgroInvest
The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), a multilateral institution headquartered in London, England, recently announced that it will extend a guarantee facility of RSD 1.15 billion (USD 10.6 million) of a credit line totaling RSD 2.3 billion (USD 21.2 million) to be disbursed by Société Générale Serbia, a subsidiary of the France-based financial institution Société Générale, to rural microenterprises in Serbia.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: European Commission, European Investment Fund (EIF) to Guarantee $107m Through European Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI), Expect to Generate $213m in Loans to European Social and Micro-enterprises
The European Commission, the European Union’s executive body, and the European Investment Fund (EIF), an EU-affiliated provider of finance to organizations that lend to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), recently partnered to introduce the European Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI).
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Black Sea Trade and Development Bank to Loan $7m to FINCA Georgia for On-lending to Micro- and Small Enterprises
FINCA Bank Georgia (FINCA Georgia), the Georgia-based subsidiary of the Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA International), a US-based nonprofit microfinance organization, recently announced that it has entered into an agreement with the Greece-based international financial institution Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB), to receive a loan of USD 7 million.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: BIO, Oikocredit Invest $8.3 million in Fusion Microfinance of India
Fusion Microfinance (Fusion), a microfinance institution (MFI) based in New Delhi, has received a combined investment of INR 53 crores (USD 8.28 million) from Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries SA (BIO), an investment company backed by the government of Belgium; and the Dutch cooperative investment fund Oikocredit.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Aspekt of Macedonia Acquires EuroNetCom to Increase Banking Software Portfolio, Financial Market Share
Aspekt, a Macedonian financial software provider, recently announced that it has acquired EuroNetCom, a banking software supplier that is also based in Macedonia.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Planning to Loan $50m to Bank CenterCredit of Kazakhstan for On-lending to Micro, Small, Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs)
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), a multilateral institution headquartered in London, is considering the disbursement of KZT 9.3 billion (USD 50 million) to Bank CenterCredit, a commercial bank in Kazakhstan.