ResponsAbility Social Investments, a Swiss microfinance investment manager, has reached six investment deals with three microfinance institutions (MFIs)in Africa.
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MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Lends $6.9m to Latin American Microfinance Companies Crecer, Fundacion Mundo Mujer Popayan
Switzerland’s responsAbility Social Investments AG recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made investments equivalent to USD 6.9 million in Bolivian microfinance institution (MFI) Crecer and Colombian MFI Fundacion Mundo Mujer (FMM) Popayan.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: HSBC to Provide Technical Assistance to Microfinance Institutions in Middle East, North Africa in Partnership with Grameen-Jameel, Bankers without Borders
UK-based financial services company HSBC (formerly known as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation), Dubai-based microfinance investor Grameen-Jameel and Bankers without Borders (BwB), a program of the US-based Grameen Foundation, are partnering to provide financial and technical expertise to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the Middle East and North Africa.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: International Finance Corporation (IFC), Swiss Government Sponsor Workshops for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Egypt
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the World Bank Group, is sponsoring a series of workshops for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Egypt “on how to implement sound corporate governance standards to improve their performance, increase access to finance and foster sustained growth.”
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Lends $1.8m to Cambodian Microfinance Companies Angkor Mikroheranhvatho Kampuchea, Thaneakea Phum (Cambodia) Limited
Switzerland’s responsAbility Social Investments AG recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made local-curency loans equivalent to USD 1.8 million to Cambodian microfinance companies Angkor Mikroheranhvatho Kampuchea (AMK) and Thaneakea Phum (Cambodia) Limited.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Loans $1.5m to Constanta of Georgia, $2.5m to Eskhata of Tajikistan
Switzerland’s responsAbility Social Investments AG recently reported to MicroCapital that it has invested USD 1.5 million in Georgia’s Constanta and USD 2.5 million in Tajikistan’s Bank Eskhata.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) Approves $10m Loan to MicroEnergy Credits (MEC) to Promote Clean Energy Microfinance
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), an agency of the US government, has approved a loan of USD 10 million to MicroEnergy Credits (MEC), a US-based, for-profit firm, to assist microfinance institutions (MFIs) in launching clean-energy lending programs.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: “SANAD Fund for MSME” to Loan $5m to BLC Bank of Lebanon for On-Lending to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
SANAD Fund for MSME, a Luxembourg-based investment fund, has invested in Lebanon for the first time with a USD 5 million loan to BLC Bank sal, a Lebanese commercial bank.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Grameen-Jameel Achieves 1.5m Microfinance Clients Reached, $53m Facilitated
Grameen-Jameel, a joint venture of the US-based Grameen Foundation and the UK-based Abdul Latif Jameel Foundation, recently announced in its first “partners’ meeting” that it has reached 1.5 million clients through its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) [1].
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) Launches “Global Engagement Call” Offering to Invest in Funds Operating in Emerging Markets
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), an agency of the US government, has launched a Global Engagement Call, inviting proposals from qualified fund managers to invest in new, expanding or privatizing companies in any of the 150 emerging markets where OPIC operates [1].
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Lends $8.2m to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) FINCA DRC, Bandhan of India, Opportunity Microcredit Romania
Switzerland’s responsAbility Social Investments AG (responsAbility) recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made loans amounting to USD 8.2 million to microfinance institutions (MFIs) FINCA DRC of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bandhan of India and Opportunity Microcredit Romania (OMRO).
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Lends $4.3m to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) Banco Solidario of Ecuador, Interactuar of Colombia
Swiss company responsAbility Social Investments AG (responsAbility) recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made loans to Latin American microfinance institutions (MFIs) Banco Solidario of Ecuador and Interactuar of Colombia.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to Loan Equivalent of $2m in Local Currency to Frontiers Microlending to On-Lend to Microfinance Institutions in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), an international financial institution headquartered in London, announced recently that it has committed to loan the equivalent of USD 2 million in the local currency, somoni, to Frontiers Microlending Company (Frontiers), a Kyrgyzstan-based non-bank microfinance institution, to serve the “lower end of the microfinance market in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan” [1].
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Global Microfinance Fund Lends $2.3m to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) Coopronaranjo of Costa Rica, Fundación Amanecer of Colombia, COAC Esperanza y Progreso Del Valle of Ecuador
Swiss company responsAbility Social Investments AG (responsAbility) recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made loans to three Latin American microfinance institutions (MFIs): USD 1.5 million to Coopronaranjo of Costa Rica, USD 500,000 to Cooperativa de Ahorro y Credito Esperanza y Progreso del Valle (COAC Progreso) of Ecuador and the local currency equivalent of USD 374,000 to Fundación Amanecer of Colombia.
MICROFINANCE EVENT: MFTransparency, Agence Française de Développement, UN Capital Development Fund, Luxembourg Cooperation, African Microfinance Network, CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor) to Host African Microfinance Pricing Transparency Leadership Forum, October 5-7, 2011 in Nairobi, Kenya
Event Name: African Microfinance Pricing Transparency Leadership Forum
Event Date: October 5 – October 7, 2011
Event Location: Nairobi, Kenya
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Works With African Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank to Plan Expansion to Support Emerging Arab Democracies
In a recent statement, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), a UK-based development finance institution, announced that it has signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with the African Development Bank (AfDB), a multilateral financial institution based in Tunisia, and the Islamic Development Bank, a development finance institution based in Saudi Arabia, to outline how the institutions would cooperate in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean region as EBRD extends its operation in the region to support the emerging Arab democracies [1].
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Loans $9.2m to Microfinance Institutions FINCA of Mexico, IDEPRO of Bolivia, EDPYME Alternativa of Peru, D-Miro of Ecuador
responsAbility Social Investments AG (responsAbility), a Swiss asset management company that manages four microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs), recently reported to MicroCapital that it made loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs) through its MIVs equivalent to the following amounts: the local-currency equivalent of USD 4.92 million to FINCA Mexico, the local-currency equivalent of USD 850,000 to Instituto para el Desarrollo de la Pequeña Unidad Productiva (IDEPRO) in Bolivia, USD 1.41 million to Entidad de Desarrollo a la Pequeña y Micro Empresa (EDPYME) Alternativa in Peru and USD 2 million to Fundación para el Desarrollo Microempresarial D-Miro (D-Miro) in Ecuador [1].
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Ahmed El Bardai of Egyptian Microfinance Institution Reefy Predicts Boom in Lending to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises to Boost National Economy
Mr Ahmed El Bardai, founder and chief executive of the Egyptian for-profit microfinance institution (MFI) Reefy, expects the country’s next government to focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to boost the economy that is facing a huge budget deficit and declining gross domestic product [1].