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 ...
Read More#DigLitBootcamp: Digital Capabilities for MFIs, an EaSI Technical Assistance Webinar
The European Union offered a webinar for microfinance institutions (MFI) interested in learning the key digital competencies they need to develop in order to succeed in the changing technological environment. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE The webinar, held on 10 March, is part of a series on digitalisation for microfinance institutions at the start of their technological journey. It focused on the ...
Read MoreMFC at EaSI Technical Assistance for Microfinance Workshop on the role of Regional Microfinance Associations in Romania
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 ...
Read MoreEaSI Technical Assistance Investment Readiness Training for Microfinance Institutions in Portugal
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 ...
Read MoreMFC Memeber NOA from Albania-Best Practice From The European Code of Good Conduct for Microcredit Provision
Since its establishment in 1998, NOA Sh.aAlbania (NOA) targets clients such as small businesses not served by banks in Albania. NOA is one of the largest microfinance institutions in the country, with 261 employees, 25 branches, 12,438 active clients and an outstanding loan portfolio of EUR 41m. With the support of EaSI Technical Assistance in 2017, NOA received a certificate ...
Read MoreEU Funding Toolkit – a Very Useful Resource on EU Funding Programmes by Euclid Network
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 ...
Read MoreEaSI Technical Assistance Webinar on the Regulations of the Financial Conduct Authority
On 13 January, the European Union is offering a webinar for microfinance institutions (MFI) interested in improving their organisational culture and conduct and aligning to the regulations of the Financial Conduct Authority. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has replaced one of its standards – the Approved Persons Regime (APR) with a Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) affecting all financial institutions regulated ...
Read MoreEaSI Technical Assistance: Peer-to-peer Training on How Microfinance Institutions Can Better Serve Vulnerable Groups With Volunteers
The EU is offering a peer-to-peer training under the EaSI Technical Assistance programme to selected European microfinance institutions, as well as other microcredit providers from Europe to visit MonteCredit, a microfinance institution operating for more than 20 years in Montenegro as a subsidiary of VisionFund. The training will take place at the premises of the hosting organisation in Podgorica, Montenegro ...
Read MoreEaSI Technical Assistance Study Visit to GLS Bank – Learning from a Successful Social Banking Model
The European Union is offering a two-day study visit under the EaSI Technical Assistance programme to selected European microfinance institutions (MFIs) from Serbia, Albania and Bulgaria. They will visit GLS Bank, a German ethical bank that was founded in 1974 as the first bank in Germany that operated with an ethical philosophy. The visit will take place in the headquarters of ...
Read MoreEaSI Technical Assistance Peer-to-Peer Visit to MicroStart with Focus on Refugee Clients
The European Union is offering a peer-to-peer training under the EaSI Technical Assistance programme. The training course is offered to the microfinance institution Finklusiv Danmark to visit microStart. The training will take place at the premises of microStart in Brussels and Gent, Belgium, on 9-10 December 2019. The peer-to-peer training is organised at the request of Finklusiv Danmark, an institution recently founded in Denmark that aims ...
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