MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Lends $4m to ACLEDA Bank, Hattha Kaksekar Limited (HKL) of Cambodia

Switzerland’s responsAbility Social Investments AG (responsAbility) recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made loans amounting to USD 4 million to Cambodian financial institutions ACLEDA Bank and Hattha Kaksekar Limited (HKL).

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Lends $3m to Microfinance Institutions Advans Cameroun, Opportunity International Bank of Malawi

Switzerland’s responsAbility Social Investments AG (responsAbility) recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made loans totaling the local-currency equivalent of USD 3 million to financial institutions Advans Cameroun and Opportunity International Bank of Malawi (OIBM).

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Lends $1.85m to Microfinance Institutions AgroInvest Holding of Montenegro, Forus Bank of Russia

Switzerland’s responsAbility Social Investments AG (responsAbility) recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made loans totaling the equivalent of USD 1.85 million to financial institutions AgroInvest Holding of Montenegro and Forus Bank of Russia.

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: responsAbility Lends $6.2m to Mutual Alajuela of Costa Rica, Cooperativa Mixta Mujeres Unidas Limitada (COMIXMUL) of Honduras, Lift Above Poverty Organisation (LAPO) of Nigeria

Switzerland’s responsAbility Social Investments AG (responsAbility) recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made loans amounting to USD 6.2 million to financial institutions Mutual Alajuela of Costa Rica, Cooperativa Mixta Mujeres Unidas Limitada (COMIXMUL) of Honduras and Lift Above Poverty Organisation (LAPO) of Nigeria.

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: Global Partnerships Lends $1.2m to Microfinance Institutions Pro Mujer, Café y Desarrollo of Mexico, Fundación Campo of El Salvador

Global Partnerships (GP), a US-based nonprofit organization that supports microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America, recently announced that it will make loans totaling the equivalent of USD 1.2 million in three microfinance institutions (MFIs): Pro Mujer, for its Mexican operations; Café y Desarrollo of Mexico; and Fundación Campo of El Salvador [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.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Incofin Lends $3.6m to Microfinance Institutions Finance for Development of Azerbaijan, Asian Credit Fund of Kazakhstan, Kompanion of Kyrgyzstan

Belgian company Incofin Investment Management (Incofin IM) has recently disbursed loans through microfinance investment funds it manages to three microfinance institutions (MFIs): USD 800,000 to Azerbaijani Finance for Development (FinDev), KZT 44 million (approximately USD 305,000) to Kazakh Asia Credit Fund (ACF) and USD 2.5 million to Kyrgyz Kompanion.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Incofin Lends $9m to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) PRIDE Tanzania; LAPO of Nigeria; Sinapi Aba Trust, FASL of Ghana

Incofin Investment Management, a private Belgian company that invests in microfinance institutions (MFIs) through six investment funds, has recently made debt investments totalling the equivalent of USD 8.75 million in four African MFIs: Promotion of Rural Initiative and Development Enterprises Limited (PRIDE Tanzania); Lift Above Poverty Organisation (LAPO) of Nigeria; Sinapi Aba Trust (SAT) of Ghana; and First Allied Savings and Loans Limited (FASL), also of Ghana.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Loans $10.5m in Local Currency to ProCredit Affiliates in Ecuador, Mexico; Peruvian Microfinance Institutions Confianza, Crear Arequipa

responsAbility Social Investments AG (responsAbility), a Swiss asset management company that manages four microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs), recently reported to MicroCapital that it made local-currency loans equivalent to the following amounts through its MIVs: USD 2 million to ProCredit Ecuador; USD 2.97 million to ProCredit Mexico; USD 2.05 million to Financiera Confianza and USD 3.5 million to Edpyme Crear Arequipa, the last two of which are microfinance institutions (MFIs) located in Peru.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Loans $8m to Kompanion of Kyrgyz Republic, Eskhata of Tajikistan, XacBank of Mongolia

responsAbility Social Investments AG (responsAbility), a Swiss asset management company that invests in microfinance institutions (MFIs) and microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs), recently reported to MicroCapital that it made debt investments totaling USD 8 million through MIVs it manages in the following institutions: USD 3 million to Kompanion Financial Group Microfinance Closed Joint Stock Company, an MFI in Kyrgyzstan; USD 2 million to Eskhata Bank, an institution in Tajikistan that lends to micro- and small businesses; and USD 3 million to XacBank, a community development MFI in Mongolia.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Kyrgyz Microfinance Institutions “Successfully Compete” with Banking Sector in Providing Access to Finance

President of Kyrgyzstan, Roza Otunbayeva, reportedly said at the recent Central Asian Microfinance Fair that microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Kyrgyzstan are emulating the banking sector in providing loans in the country.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Microfinance Institution (MFI) TuranBank of Azerbaijan Receives Loan of $7m from IFC to Expand Rural Lending

International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the World Bank Group, has agreed to loan USD 7 million to TuranBank, a microfinance institution (MFI) in Azerbaijan, in an effort to help the MFI increase its lending to rural micro- and small enterprises (MSEs).

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Loans $3.9m to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) Arvand of Tajikistan, Mol Bulak of Kyrgyzstan, Constanta and Lazika Capital, Both of Georgia

responsAbility Social Investments AG, a Swiss investment company that operates four microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs), recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made debt investments totalling USD 3.9 million in microfinance institutions (MFIs) Arvand of Tajikistan, Mol Bulak Finance of Kyrgyzstan, Joint Stock Company (JSC) Bank Constanta of Georgia and JSC Lazika Capital of Georgia.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility of Switzerland Loans $6.9m to FIE Grand Poder of Argentina, Corporacion Narino Empresa y Futuro (Contactar) of Colombia, Banco Solidario of Ecuador, Arasy Organica of Paraguay

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it loaned the equivalent of USD 6.92 million to microfinance organizations Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay and Ecuador.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: MicroCred Senegal, Middle East Micro Credit Company (MEMCC) of Jordan Borrow $2m From responsAbility Social Investments of Switzerland

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made local currency loans totaling the equivalent of USD 2 million to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Senegal and Jordan.