Erste Group’s Social Banking invested 53 million euros to support its clients in the pandemic year 2020 2020 was a challenging year, with the Covid-19 pandemic disproportionately hitting the most vulnerable people in our society – not only in terms of their health, but also financially, due to job loss or lower income. However, the recently published Annual Report by ...

European Social Economy Summit (#EUSES) 26 & 27 May 2021, is a jointly organized digital conference by the European Commission and the City of Mannheim. The #EUSES is a conference which aims at strengthening the social economy in Europe and harness its contribution to economic development, social inclusion as well as green and digital transitions. The discussions will focus on three ...

Last year it was more than impressive. MFC hosted over 1000 participants during #DigLitBootcamp sessions organized in 2020. Not only our attendees learned a lot*, which is the most important goal, but they joined us from 154 different institutions, spread around 55 countries! To follow up last year’s Digital Literacy Bootcamp – based on the feedback received – we have ...

Are you in the process of building your online presence and facing challenges? Would you like to make  the most of existing online marketing opportunities? Join our hands-on-experience Bootcamp Labs! For Microfinance Professionals The Bootcamp Labs are designed for Microfinance Professionals that are undertaking a challenge of building a solid online presence of their organizations and who would like to ...

MI- BOSPO from Bosnia and Herzegovina, MFC long term partner and one of the first institutions to join the MFC network, is celebrating their 25th anniversary. We all at the Microfinance Centre are very content with this jubilee and congratulate MI-BOSPO on their valuable work and great cooperation wishing them continued success in the future! On this occasion, MI-BOSPO has ...

Tajikistan’s leading micro lending institution, Imon International (Imon), which is MFC long-term Member, will continue providing financial services to more than 100,000 micro businesses and individual borrowers across the country thanks to an equity investment from Imon’s international shareholders. Following the exit of Imon’s main shareholder Micro-credit Fund “IMON”, Mikro Kapital, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Dutch ...

The Microfinance Centre is very happy to welcome on board Georgian Microfinance Association. Welcome to the MFC network, we look forward to our collaborations! See below how the GMA is presenting themselves:   Georgian Microfinance Association was established in August 2009. Its founders are microfinance organizations. The main mission of the Association is to support the development of microfinance sector ...

The European Union is offering this webinar to microfinance institutions (MFI) interested in exploring what can be done to support micro and small (MSEs) transition into a post pandemic world.   Join us on Wednesdays : 5th, 12th and 19th May at 14:00 CET This series of webinars will discuss the importance of developing alternatives to debt financing instruments. The current crisis has shown the ...

Microfinance business – Before and After Covid-19 MFC Member, Impactiive, started a series of articles on the microfinance industry current situation and future perspectives. Our Team at the Microfinance Centre found their broad approach and analysis thought-provoking and we recommed that read to any microfinance #professional who wants to start a discussion on the modern challenges which the sector faces. Source: impactiive.com “Starting with ...

The European Commission has announced the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan which outlines concrete actions to further implement the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights. It is a joint effort of the Members States and the EU, with an active involvement of social partners and civil society. It also proposes employment, skills and social protection headline ...