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FINCA Impact Finance is owned and operated by the socially responsible investment (SRI) partnership FINCA Microfinance Holding Company LLC (FMH).

FMH’s investors own FINCA Impact Finance, a worldwide network of microfinance banks and institutions that offer innovative, responsible and impactful financial services to low-income individuals and their communities. Its products and services empower people to take control of their financial futures and build their financial health.

The SRI model holds true to our social impact mission while relying on commercial principles to deliver sustainable financial results and ensure institutional stability during times of stress. Long-term financial sustainability ensures FMH’s ability to continue expanding financial inclusion to those who can benefit from it.

FMH’s majority shareholder is FINCA International, Inc. a Washington, D.C.-based not-for-profit organization, while KfW holds a minority share. The FMH partnership brings capital, financial leverage and business acumen to FINCA Impact Finance’s microfinance operations. This is especially important as the microfinance landscape evolves to include new technologies and new expectations from clients, regulators and other stakeholders.

Since 2011, increased access to capital has helped FMH expand lending, leverage funding from capital markets, and transform many of FINCA Impact Finance’s microfinance subsidiaries into licensed financial institutions that offer a full range of essential financial services.

FINCA International is the creator of the FINCA network of microfinance institutions. As a not-for-profit organization, FINCA International uses philanthropic capital and donations to maintain and steward our investment in the microfinance mission through FMH; research client needs and monitor outcomes; support client-centered product development; introduce new technology, services and client education; and support on-lending of funds to micro and small enterprises by local subsidiaries.

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Established in 1948 as a public law institution, KfWBankengruppe is today owned 80% by the Federal Republic of Germany and 20% by the federal states (“Länder”). With a balance sheet total of more than EUR 440 billion, KfW is one of the world´s leading and most experienced promotional banks. As a bank with no branch network or customer deposits, it refinances its lending business almost exclusively in the international capital markets. KfWEntwicklungsbank is part of KfWBankengruppe and a competent and strategic advisor on current development issues. Reducing poverty, securing peace, protecting natural resources and helping to shape globalization are the main priorities of KfWEntwicklungsbank. On behalf of the German Federal Government it finances reforms, infrastructure and financial systems for socially and ecologically compatible economic growth in more than 110 countries. It is a worldwide financing partner, and it also employs funds of its own for development projects.

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