Our Partners & Members

• ACCION International

  

  ACCION International is a private, nonprofit organisation with the mission of giving people the financial tools they need- microenterprise loans, business training and other financial services-to help work their way out of poverty.

• Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance

  

  The underlying objectives of AKAM are to reduce poverty, diminish the vulnerability of poor populations and alleviate economic and social exclusion. AKAM aims to improve the quality of life of people by helping them to improve their incomes, become self-reliant and gain the skills needed to graduate into the mainstream financial markets.

• Banco Compartamos SA

  

  Banco Compartamos SA began operations in 1990. It has become the largest microfinance bank in Latin America serving more than 2,200,000 clients, most of them women entrepreneurs without prior access to working capital. Clients use the capital from Compartamos, to invest in machinery and raw materials, thereby expanding their business and improving the quality of life for them and their families.

• BlueOrchard Finance SA

  

  BlueOrchard is a leading commercial microfinance investment company whose mission is to empower the poor worldwide and improve their quality of life by enabling them to participate in income-generating activities.

• CreditEase

  

  CreditEase is China’s first, and now biggest, peer-to-peer microcredit platform working with the unbanked in China. It serves as a middleman rather than a lender. CreditEase also provides services such as wealth management, credit risk assessment and management, credit data integration, microfinance investment, microfinance consultancy and transaction, and a public-service microfinance rural assistance platform.

• CGAP

   

  CGAP is an independent policy and research center dedicated to advancing financial access for the world’s poor. Housed at the World Bank, CGAP provides market intelligence, promotes standards, develops innovative solutions and offers advisory services to governments, financial service providers, donors, and investors.

• de Pury Pictet Turretini

   

  De Pury Pictet Turrettini & Co LTD was founded in 1996 by David de Pury, Guillaume Pictet and Henri Turrettini. The company offers asset management and estate advisory as well as family office services. It has developed leading-edge expertise in asset management for both individual and institutional clients, and it currently has over CHF 2.5 billion under management.  In addition, De Pury Pictet Turrettini & Co LTD has always been very innovative; it was a pioneer in responsible and sustainable investment.

• Elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalisation

  

  elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization wants to achieve sustainable, positive, tangible impact directly benefiting people challenged by the globalization process. The main emphasis is to support entrepreneurial projects focusing on poor people at the bottom of the pyramid.

• Ernst & Young

  

  Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 152,000 people are united by  shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. Ernst & Young make a difference by helping  people, clients and wider communities achieve their potential.

• Fern Software

  

  Incorporated in 1979 Fern Software has a global presence in over 30 countries. Fern specialises in the development and implementation of banking systems to the following range of customers: Credit Unions, Banks, Microfinance Institutions, Savings and Loans organisations.

• Fondation pour Genève

  

  The Fondation pour Genève, created in 1976, aims to promote Geneva both in Switzerland and worldwide. Its work consists in launching, coordinating, promoting and supporting initiatives from both the private and public sectors and encouraging dialogue between both local and international communities.

• GIZ

  

  Established on 1 January 2011, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) is a federally owned enterprise which supports the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development. GIZ operates in more than 130 countries worldwide and employs approximately 17’000 staff members.

• OikoCredit

  

  Oikocredit is one of the world’s largest sources of private funding to the microfinance sector, providing credit to trade cooperatives, fair trade organizations and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) in the developing world.  OikoCredit lends working capital to microfinance institutions (MFIs) all over the world which, in turn, dispense life-changing loans to the poor and disadvantaged, with a special emphasis on rural areas and women.

• Standard Chartered

  

  Standard Chartered Bank was formed in 1969 through the merger of  the Standard Bank of British South Africa and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.  Standard Chartered’s financing decisions intend to impact people and the environment and to promote improved social standards.

• Summit Financial Services Ltd

  

  Summit Financial Services is a finance company with offices in the Middle East specialising in a variety of different service sectors with special focus on socially responsible investments.

   

• Zhong An Credit

  
  Zhong An Credit is  registered as a venture capital company in Shenzhen, China. Its primary business is to provide micro enterprise- and personal lending. Its main operation is in Shenzhen, although the activities are expected to increase in Hebei and Sichuan province in the near future. The purpose of the project is to support the expansion of Zhong An Credit’s microfinance portfolio in a sustainable way.