Microfinance Centre with support of  European Union is offering a webinar on 16 April for microfinance institutions (MFI) interested in understanding the legal and economic terminology for restructuring and refinancing of loans, and what options they can offer for their clients. This is the third webinar in a series called “How to build a corporate immune system for the crisis”, which ...

MFC and EMN are jointly organizing a webinar aiming to help you cope with the pandemic effects – how to protect your Staff and Clients? – how to cope with pandemic effects on MFI’s businesses? In the times of COVID-19 pandemic, it is the most vulnerable who are to be affected the most – our clients. The initiatives are growing ...

By Kinga Dąbrowska How to Work From Home Effectively  [1] Work from home (WFH)  requires a high level of self-organization and self-motivation skills from each one of us. For some institutions organizing WFH is not a new practice, but many of us will experience this for the first time. We decided to briefly summarize the essentials of working remotely adjusting it ...

Taking into account the current pandemic of coronavirus and the epidemic state introduced by Polish authorities, MFC Team is now working remotely. Any kind of activities planned in the field are postponed or moved on-line, at least those planned until the end of March. We are now organizing ourselves to support our Members and the microfinance sector. A series of ...

The case studies present findings on the current state of the fintech industry in six countries: (UK, Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine, Turkey and the Czech Republic) in the context of their potential contribution (positive and negative) to financial inclusion and financial health of individuals and small businesses. The summary paper offers a comparative analysis of fintechs’contribution to financial inclusion and health ...

The European Union is offering an investment readiness training under the EaSI Technical Assistance programme tailored to microfinance institutions and other stakeholders in the Hungarian microfinance sector. The training will take place at the Hotel Benczur, H-1068 Budapest, Hungary on 19 March 2020. The main objectives of the training are to: Inform the Hungarian institutions on EU funded EaSI Technical Assistance and EaSI ...

The European Union is offering a microfinance workshop under the EaSI Technical Assistance programme, taking place at Hotel Mercure Bucharest, Romania, on 12 March 2020. This is a follow-up workshop to another event organised in cooperation with the Romanian Microfinance Association, which took place in November 2019 and focused on a study [read :Benchmarking Microfinance in Romania, 2016-2018] Topic: The role ...

The investment training session is tailored to microfinance institutions and other stakeholders in the Portuguese microfinance sector. The European Union is offering an investment readiness training under the EaSI Technical Assistance programme tailored to microfinance institutions and other stakeholders in the Portuguese microfinance sector. The training will take place at the SANA Metropolitan Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal on 11 March 2020. This ...

Euclid Network in cooperation with EC prepared a very handy toolkit about all of the EU funding programmes. It can be very useful for all of the MFI’s, social enterprises, start-ups, institutions helping migrants You can find there the Overview on EU funding instruments: EaSI, COSME, ESF, Interreg Europe, Erasmus+, LIFE and Horizon 2020. If your institution is searching for ...

The new initiative – impaktEU aims to be a one-stop shop for smaller players as regards access to funding, technical assistance, grants etc. It will operate within the framework of the “InvestEU” programme set-up by the European Commission for the period 2021-2027 and will prioritize a maximum social impact on the ground while fostering a strong complementarity with existing European ...