Countries & Regions

Microfinance in Moldova:

May 22, 2012 - 5:01am from MicroCapital
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), an international financial institution headquartered in England, recently launched a EUR 35 million (USD 44.7 million) program called the Moldovan Residential Energy Efficiency Financing Facility (MoREEFF) to assist Moldovan households in reducing household energy usage and costs. Funds will be made available to local banks, such as Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR) Chisinau, a subsidiary of BCR Romania, that will receive the first ...
January 23, 2012 - 12:11pm from CGAP Microfinance Blog
The year 2011 was not particularly easy for microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA).  Though overall many managed to overcome crisis, many MFIs have not yet returned to their pre-crisis growth rates, and delinquency levels were still higher last year than in 2007. One of the issues commonly faced ...
September 26, 2011 - 5:11am from MicroCapital
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 ...
August 11, 2011 - 5:50am from MicroCapital
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) ...
July 17, 2011 - 5:03am from MicroCapital
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), a UK-based development finance institution, has agreed to make a four-year, local-currency loan of TJS 29 million (USD 6 million) to AccessBank Tajikistan, a bank that specializes in financial services for micro- and small enterprises (MSEs). AccessBank plans to use the funding to expand its lending portfolio and provide credit to a greater number of entrepreneurs. The transaction makes AccessBank the second recipient in ...
July 14, 2011 - 12:51pm from MicroCapital
responsAbility Social Investments AG, a Swiss investment company that manages four microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs), recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made debt investments worth the equivalent of USD 27.4 million in NBD Bank, a commercial bank in Russia, and three microfinance institutions (MFIs): Microcredit Foundation Prizma of Bosnia and Herzegovina; FINCA Russia; and Forus Bank, also of Russia. The investments have been made through three MIVs: responsAbility ...
July 12, 2011 - 5:16pm from MicroCapital
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), a development finance institution, has agreed to make a three-year, local-currency loan of KGS 270 million (USD 6 million) to Bai Tushum and Partners, a non-banking microfinance institution (MFI) operating in the Kyrgyz Republic. Bai Tushum will use the funding to expand its loan portfolio, with a specific focus on increasing the MFI’s credit program for agricultural microenterprises. The loan to Bai Tushum is ...
June 16, 2011 - 3:28pm from MicroCapital
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. responsAbility Mikrofinanz-Fonds (Mikrofinanz-Fonds), an MIV launched in ...
May 2, 2011 - 2:04pm from MIX Recent Features
Насколько же сильно отразился всемирный экономический и финансовый кризис на микрофинансовом секторе в Восточной Европе и Центральной Азии (ЕЦА)?