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: European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE) Wins Tageblatt Award For Social Business Model At Luxembourg Fund Awards

The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE), a microfinance investment fund incorporated in Luxembourg, was recently awarded the Tageblatt Award of the Luxembourg Fund Awards for its contribution to socioeconomic development in Southeast Europe and the Caucasus region.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility of Switzerland Loans $11m to ProCredit Georgia, Frontiers of Kyrgyz Republic, AgroInvest Holding of Montenegro, Sathapana of Cambodia

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it loaned the equivalent of USD 11 million to microfinance organizations in Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Montenegro and Cambodia.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Social Investments of Switzerland Makes Debt Investments Worth $4m in Coffee Cooperatives Coagriscal and Coprocael of Honduras, Microfinance Institution Centro de Apoyo al Microempresario (CAME) of Mexico

responsAbility Social Investments, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it loaned the equivalent of USD 4 million to Coagriscal and Coprocael, Honduran coffee farming cooperatives and Centro de Apoyo al Microempresario (CAME), a microfinance institution (MFI) based in Mexico.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Social Investments of Switzerland Loans $15m to FINCA International Subsidiaries in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it has invested USD 15 million in debt in FINCA International subsidiaries in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. FINCA International is a global microfinance network operating in 21 countries reporting total assets of USD 467 million as of 2009 [2].

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: BlueOrchard Loans $3m to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) AccessBank of Tajikistan, LOLC Micro Credit Limited (LOMC) of Sri Lanka

BlueOrchard Finance SA, a subsidiary of Switzerland-based commercial microfinance intermediary BlueOrchard, recently made loans totaling USD 3 million to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Tajikistan and Sri Lanka.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: BlueOrchard Makes First Direct Loan of $5m to Microfinance Network FINCA International

BlueOrchard Finance SA, a subsidiary of Switzerland-based microfinance investment company BlueOrchard, recently made a debt investment of USD 5 million in FINCA International, a US-based microfinance network, through its Dexia Microcredit Fund, one of the microfinance investment vehicles BlueOrchard manages.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE) Loans $21m to Microfinance Institution (MFI) ProCredit Bank Bulgaria

The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE), a microfinance investment fund incorporated in Luxembourg, recently loaned USD 21.2 million in two segments to ProCredit Bank Bulgaria, a microfinance institution (MFI) that provides financing to micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Makes Debt Investments Worth $7.5m in FINCA Kyrgyzstan, Mol Bulak of Kyrgyzstan, Constanta of Georgia, BZMF of Kosovo, GafGaz Leasing of Azerbaijan

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it invested the equivalent of USD 7.5 million in microfinance organizations in Kosovo and Central Asia.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE) loans $9.8m to Romanian Microfinance Institution (MFI) Patria Credit

The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE), a microfinance investment fund incorporated in Luxembourg, recently loaned the equivalent EUR 7 million (USD 9.86 million) to Romanian microfinance institution (MFI) Patria Credit, for on-lending to micro- and small enterprises (MSEs) in rural Romania.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Social Investments of Loans $8m to Contactar of Colombia, Vision Banco of Paraguay, Forjadores de Negocios of Mexico and Ecuadorian Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) COAC Progreso, Fundación Alternativa

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made debt investments totaling the equivalent of approximately USD 8.25 million in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Mexico.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE) Lends $5m to Minsk Transit Bank of Belarus

Finance in Motion, a Frankfurt-based asset management firm focused on development finance, recently reported to MicroCapital that the European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE), a microfinance institution investment fund that it advises, made a debt investment of USD 5 million in Minsk Transit Bank, a joint stock company in Belarus [1].

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Social Investments of Switzerland Makes Loans Totaling $3m to Gata Daku of the Philippines; Koperasi Mitra Dhuafa (Komida) of Indonesia; and Cambodian Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) AMRET, Sathapana and Thaneakea Phum Cambodia Limited (TPC)

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made loans totaling the equivalent of USD 3.06 million to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Cambodia, the Philippines and Indonesia [1].

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Tajikistan Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) Arvand, Bank Eskhata, FINCA Tajikistan, Oxus Microfinance Borrow $4.7m From responsAbility Social Investments of Switzerland

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made loans totaling USD 4.7 million to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Tajikistan.

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.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Advans SA Launches Microfinance Institution (MFI) Advans Bank Tanzania in Dar es Salaam

Advans SA, a microfinance investment vehicle (MIV) registered in Luxembourg, recently announced the launch of Advans Bank Tanzania in Dar es Salaam. As reported by MicroCapital in November, 2010, the new microfinance institution (MFI) will offer products such as loans to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), savings accounts in local and foreign currencies and domestic money transfers.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Social Investments of Switzerland Makes Loans Totaling $2.9m to CREDIT of Cambodia, Sathapana Limited of Cambodia, HUMO and Partners of Tajikistan, Community Economic Ventures Incorporated (CEVI) of the Philippines

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, has recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made loans totaling the equivalent of USD 2.9 million to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Cambodia, Tajikistan and the Philippines.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Social Investments Loans Total of $5.8m to Banco Solidaro of Ecuador, Fundación de Apoyo Comunitario y Social del Ecuador (FACES) of Ecuador, Edpyme Alternativa of Peru, Apoyo Integral of El Salvador

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made loans totaling approximately USD 5.8 million to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Ecuador, Peru and El Salvador.