MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Loans $6m to ProCredit Bank of Moldova, Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA) Russia, FINCA Jordan

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 has loaned the equivalent of USD 6.3 million to ProCredit Bank of Moldova, Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA) Russia and FINCA Jordan through MIVs that it manages.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Loans $7.5m in Local Currency to Peruvian Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) Financiera Confianza, Edpyme Raiz, Prisma

responsAbility Social Investments AG, a Swiss investment company that operates a number of microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs), recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made local-currency debt investments worth a total of USD 7.5 million in Peruvian microfinance institutions (MFIs) Edpyme Raiz, Financiera Confianza and Asociacion Benefica Prisma (Prisma).

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: LuxFLAG Renews Label for MIVs From Absolute, BlueOrchard, EFSE, Finethic, Horus, KCD, ResponsAbility, Triodos, Wallberg

LuxFLAG, an organization established in 2006 to certify that microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs) actually invest in the sector, has renewed its annual label for 13 MIVs: Advans SA, BlueOrchard Microfinance Fund for US Investors, Dexia Micro-Credit Fund – BlueOrchard Debt Sub-Fund, Dual Return Fund – Vision Microfinance, European Fund for Southeast Europe, Finethic Microfinance,  KCD Mikrofinanzfonds I, KCD Mikrofinanzfonds II, responsAbility Global Microfinance Fund, responsAbility (Lux) Microfinance Leaders Fund, responsAbility (Lux) Mikrofinanz-Fonds, Triodos Microfinance Fund and Wallberg Global Microfinance Fund.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Swiss Microfinance Investment Vehicle (MIV) Manager responsAbility Releases Social Performance Report 2011

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently released its “Social Performance Report 2011,” which is the sixth of its kind, covering the effect on poor people of its work during 2010 in the following areas: microfinance, fair trade, small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) financing and independent media.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Social Investments of Switzerland Loans $2m to Middle East Micro Credit Company (MEMCC) of Jordan, Urwego Opportunity Bank (UOB) of Rwanda

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) Middle East Micro Credit Company (MEMCC) of Jordan and Urwego Opportunity Bank (UOB) of Rwanda.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Loans $6m to Microfinance Institution Financiera Creditos Arequipa SA (Financiera Crear), Fair Trade Groups Asociacion de Comites de Productores Agropecuarios (ACOPAGRO), Frontera de San Ignacio, All of Peru

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it has loaned the equivalent of USD 6.62 million to microfinance institution Financiera Creditos Arequipa SA (Financiera Crear) and fair trade groups Asociacion de Comites de Productores Agropecuarios (ACOPAGRO) and Frontera de San Ignacio, all of Peru.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Loans $3.9m to Microfinance Institutions Financiera Confianza, Cooperativa Agropecuaria Limitada Naranjillo of Peru

responsAbility Social Investments AG, an investment company based in Switzerland, recently reported to MicroCapital that it loaned the equivalent of USD 3.9 million to microfinance organizations Financiera Confianza and Cooperativa Agropecuaria Limitada Naranjillo of Peru.

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Loans $8.7m to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) Microenterprise Development Fund Kamurj of Armenia, ProCredit Bank Georgia

responsAbility Social Investments AG, a Swiss investment company that operates a number of microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs), recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made debt investments of USD 1.2 million in Armenian microfinance institution (MFI) Microenterprise Development Fund Kamurj (MDF Kamurj) and USD 7.5 million in Georgian MFI ProCredit Bank 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.