Posts Tagged ‘rural impulse fund’

Microfinance Focus, Aug 13, 2010: Belgian microfinance fund, Incofin’s Rural Impulse Fund I and Incofin cvso have obtained ‘strongly recommended’ rating for both the financial and the social performance dimension from M-CRIL, a leading microfinance rating agency. The rating exercise was funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation. The report provides an in-depth analysis of both financial and social performance indicators at the level ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, Jan. 21, 2010: The Rural Impulse Fund has recently invested $500,000 in a senior loan to Fundacion Dominicana de Desarrollo (FDD), a microfinance foundation in the Dominican Republic. The investment has been provided in local currency through the use of MFX to support the FDD's growth strategy, Incofin said in a recent statement. FDD, established in 1966, is one of oldest MFIs in Latin America ... Full story

Microfinance Focus , Nov. 09, 2009 : Incofin's Impulse Microfinance Investment Fund has increased its stake in Bolivian MFI “FIE Fondo Financiero Privado (FIE FFP)” in a secondary transaction from the Stichting Triodos Doen fund. With this transaction, Incofin and the Impulse Fund will own a combined 15% share in FIE, making it the second largest shareholder after FIE Holding. FIE FFP has a market share ... Full story