MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Social Investments of Switzerland Loans $11m to Indian Microfinance Institutions via UTI Fund

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it invested approximately USD 11 million in an unspecified Indian money market fund via the UTI Wealth Creator 4 fund, which is organized under UTI International Limited, a subsidiary of UTI Asset Management Company of India.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Social Investments Makes Loans Totaling $12.5m to Belarusian Bank for Small Business (BBSB) of Belarus, Khan Bank of Mongolia, XacBank of Mongolia

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently invested USD 12.5 million across three financial institutions based in Belarus and Mongolia.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Social Investments of Switzerland Makes Loans Totaling $2m to FINCA DRC of Democratic Republic of the Congo, First Allied Savings and Loans Limited (FASL) of Ghana

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, has recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made loans totaling USD 2 million to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ghana.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Social Investments of Switzerland Makes Loans Totaling $10m to FINCA International Subsidiaries in Azerbaijan, Russia, Ecuador and Mexico

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it has invested loans approximately equivalent to USD 10.2 million to FINCA International subsidiaries in Azerbaijan, Russia, Ecuador and Mexico. FINCA International is a global microfinance network operating in 21 countries reporting total assets of USD 467 million as of 2009 [2].

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: European Fund for Southeast Europe Loans $10m to Megabank of Ukraine with Focus on Microfinance

The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE), a microfinance investment fund incorporated in Luxembourg in 2005, recently reported to MicroCapital that it made a debt investment of USD 10 million in Megabank of Ukraine, a commercial bank serving both corporate and individual clients.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Social Investments of Switzerland Makes Loans Totaling $13m to Banco Continental of Paraguay, Financiera Confianza of Peru

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it invested the equivalent of USD 13 million in two microfinance institutions (MFIs) in South America.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Loans $8m to Cooperativa Mixta Mujeres Unidas Limitada (COMIXMUL) of Honduras, Apoyo Integral of El Salvador, Mutual Cartago de Ahorro y Prestamo (MUCAP) of Costa Rica, Fondo de Desarrollo Local (FDL) of Nicaragua

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it invested a total of USD 8 million in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Social Investments of Switzerland Loans $11.3m to PRASAC, Thaneakea Phum Cambodia Limited (TPC) of Cambodia, LOLC Micro Credit Limited (LOMC) of Sri Lanka

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it made seven investments totaling USD 11.3 million to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Asia.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: International Finance Corporation (IFC) Lends $1M to Cameroonian Microfinance Institution (MFI) Advans Cameroun

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, recently provided XAF 500 million (approximately USD 1.01 million) in local currency loan to Advans Cameroun, a microfinance institution (MFI) that is controlled by the Luxembourg- based investment firm Advans SA.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: European Fund for Southeast Europe Loans $19m to ProCredit Bank SA of Romania for Microfinance

The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE), a microfinance investment fund incorporated in Luxembourg in 2005, recently reported to MicroCapital that it made a debt investment of USD 19 million in ProCredit Bank SA of Romania, a bank catering to micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises that is part of the ProCredit Holding Group, which consists of twenty-one member banks that operate in developing countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa.

MICROCAPITAL EVENT: Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) Sustainable and Responsible Investments Conference, Luxembourg, February 17, 2011

Event Name: Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) Sustainable and Responsible Investments Conference

Event Date: February 17, 2011

Event Location: Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce, Luxembourg

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Microfinance Investment Vehicle European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE) and ProCredit Bank Moldova Sign $7m Synthetic, Local-Currency Loan for On-Lending to Microenterprises

The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE), a microfinance investment vehicle (MIV) advised by Finance in Motion and managed by Oppenheim Asset Management Services, has provided ProCredit Bank, the Moldovan operation of ProCredit Holding, with a long-term, synthetic loan in Moldovan leu (MDL) equivalent to USD 7 million for on-lending to micro- and small enterprises.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Makes Debt Investments Worth $4.5m to PRASAC, Chamroeun of Cambodia, TSKI of Philippines

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it made five investments totaling USD 4.5 million to three microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Asia.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Makes Debt Investments Worth $5m in Contactar of Colombia, FODEMI of Ecuador, FINCA Mexico and Edpyme Raiz of Peru

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it made five investments totaling USD 5.3 million in four microfinance institutions (MFI) in Mexico and South America.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Makes Debt Investments Totaling $6m in Microfinance Institutions Credo and Constanta of Georgia and Kompanion of the Kyrgyz Republic

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it made five debt investments totaling USD 6 million in three microfinance institutions in Central Asia.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Social Investments Provides Debt Financing Worth $2.7m to Microfinance Institutions Opportunity Albania and FINCA Russia

responsAbility Social Investments AG (responsAbility), an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that in November 2010 it made four debt investments in microfinance institutions Opportunity Albania and FINCA Russia.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Harbu Microfinance Institution of Ethiopia Receives Third Annual “European Microfinance Award” At the European Investment Bank (EIB) in Luxembourg

Harbu Microfinance Institution Share Company (Harbu) of Ethiopia was recently presented the third annual “European Microfinance Award” by Maria Teresa, the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, on behalf of the Luxembourg Round Table on Microfinance, a government organization established to catalyze interactions between microfinance institutions (MFIs) and financial institutions in Luxembourg, at the European Investment Bank (EIB) in Luxembourg.