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Microfinance - In Focus
Euromoney Institutional Investor, Pages: 19
An incisive collection of 26 key articles, 'Microfinance – In Focus'
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Opic approves new investment funds for Africa - Trade Finance
Two new funds approved to invest in Pan-African companies and to strengthen capital markets.... (337 words)
Unitus Launches Microfinance Advisory Firm - Private Asset Management
Unitus, an international non-profit organization that works to reduce global poverty, has launched Unitus Capital, a financial advisory firm that links microfinance institutions and social entrepreneurs with high-net-worth individuals, banks, private equity firms and venture capital firms to help make microfinance investments in emerging markets.... (264 words)
New microfinancing watchdog launched - Trade Finance
Microfinancing leaders launch MicroFinance Transparency, an NGO dedicated to making clear the costs of microcredit products to borrowers.... (328 words)
CAF approves investment in microfinance fund - Trade Finance
Fund creates opportunities for Latin American microfinance institutions to access finance in local currency.... (258 words)
EBRD closes Tajikistan agri micro-financing credit line - Trade Finance
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has closed a $6 million one-year revolving credit line for Tajikistan's Tojiksotirotbonk (TSOB). The financing is apart of a larger $35 million framework facility which will be used to... (319 words)
OPIC fund to support South Africa SMEs - Trade Finance
OPIC has announced a new financing initiative to fund small business development in South Africa... (386 words)
Fitch's microfinance methodology - EuroWeek
Fitch has published its ratings criteria for microfinance institutions (MFIs), along with approximately 35 ratings for individual institutions. The move makes it the first agency to implement such a methodology on a large scale. Last year Standard & Poor's... (441 words)
IFC and StanChart collaborate on credit-linked notes to improve microfinance sector - Trade Finance
IFC and Standard Chartered Bank have collaborated on the launch of the first-ever issuance of notes backed by loans to microfinance institutions in Africa and Asia. The innovative transaction will establish a new product to provide... (324 words)
OPIC approves fourth African fund - Trade Finance
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has approved up to $50 million in f inancing to support a new private equity investment fund that will invest in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) throughout Africa. The fund is the... (343 words)
New microfinance information service launches - Trade Finance
The International Association of Microfinance Investors (IAMFI), a global organisation dedicated exclusively to addressing the needs of commercially oriented microfinance investors, today announced its launch and founding board of directors. The organisation's creation was conceived by a group... (423 words)
China micro-lending gets boost from IFC convertible loan - Trade Finance
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has signed an agreement to support Zhong An Credit, a Shenzhen-based microfinance institution. The company will use the proceeds of IFC's $2.5 million convertible loan to grow its business and extend...(333 words)
Institutions turn to microfinance - Global Investor
Microfinance is no longer the exclusive domain of philanthropists, but has gone mainstream, as investors becoming increasingly involved and enjoy competitive returns through microfinance opportunities. A conference, touted as the first of its kind focusing on investment opportunities in... (476 words)
IFC and Wachovia arrange Peruvian microfinance facility - Trade Finance
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Wachovia Capital Markets have co-arranged a $40 million syndicated financing agreement for Peru's Mibanco, Banco de la Microempresa. The facility is the first international syndication for a microfinance institution in Latin America. Originally... (300 words)
Microfinance endorsed by ratings agencies - International Financial Law Review
Ratings agencies are warming to microfinance as Deutsche Bank closed one of the first microfinance deals to be rated last week... (253 words)
High Return, Low Risk - Latin Finance
Microfinance institutions have an array of funding sources available, all of which should appeal to investors, says Vikram Gandhi, global head of Credit Suisse's financial institutions banking group.... (678 words)
Microfinance: Stan Chart and IFC free MFIs - Euromoney Magazine
Standard Chartered and the International Finance Corporation have joined forces to launch the first-ever issuance of credit-linked notes backed by loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.... (562 words)
Large Pensions Seeks EM Micro-Finance Ops - Global Money Management
Large pension funds seeking investments uncorrelated to the equity markets are looking to small business in emerging markets, Global Pensions reports.... (134 words)
UBS Grows Philanthropic Offerings - Private Asset Management
UBS Wealth Management's Philanthropic Group is prepping its largest donor-advised fund to date and will also launch a line of community-focused philanthropic investments.... (454 words)
Legatum, Omidyar Invest In Micro Finance Fund - Alternative Investment News
Legatum and Omidyar Network announced a USD40 million co-investment in Unitus Equity Fund II, whereby each firm will invest USD20 million in the fund, which provides capital to microfinance organizations operated by entrepreneurs.... (160 words)
Microfinance Deals Grow, Evolve In '08 - Total Securitization
The number of microfinance collateralized debt obligations may double over last year's figures.... (266 words)
Ratings Bosses Debate Merits Of Different MFI Ratings - Total Securitization
Microfinance industry professionals espoused the merits of alternate approaches to ratings of microfinance institutions during a panel discussion at Financial Research Associates' Microfinance For The Institutional Investor conference in New York....(238 words)
Citigroup privately places $165m microfinance CDO - EuroWeek
Citigroup is privately placing a $165m microfinance CDO, Global Microfinance Facility. Cyrano Management, a specialist microfinance fund manager established in 2000, will manage the transaction. Only the $69m senior tranche, rated AA by Fitch, will be placed. The IFC and KfW will invest... (717 words)
Citi Tying Up Microfinance Fund - Total Securitization
Citigroup is wrapping up a $165 million fund backed by 30 loans to microfinance institutions.... (294 words)
Young Money Eyes Microfinance For High Returns - Private Asset Management
High-net-worth individuals in their twenties and thirties are showing an increasing interest in microfinance institutions to capitalize on the socially responsible investing aspect--but also as a result of high returns in the niche, according to a recent panel at a Deutsche Bank microfinance luncheon in New York.... (154 words)
The big business of small loans - Emerging Markets
Global focus on microfinance from private investors and IFIs alike has never been greater, with the industry expected to swell to $250 billion over the next decade. But expanding the sector needs more than extra funds... (1,588 words)
Structured Microfinance - Journal of Structured Finance
Microfinance deals with the provision of loans, bank account facilities, and insurance services for poor individuals, predominately in poor countries. The loan and deposit size is often as small as $100? $500 and, in contrast to the situation in the developed... (1,874 words)
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