Symbiotics Launches Tameo, an Independent Spin-off Focusing on Enhancing Impact Funds With Support Services
The new company offers reference products to impact investors and fund managers, centered around research, impact and investment solutions.
Symbiotics Becomes a Certified B Corporation® Rated Among the Highest in Switzerland
The results of the very comprehensive B Impact Assessment provide an important benchmark for the company and a path to further improve certain areas and take specific actions in the years to come.
Resilient Microfinance Industry Signals Path Toward Cautious, Gradual Recovery
This snapshot is part of a series published by CGAP and Symbiotics, offering regular updates on how COVID-19 is affecting the microfinance sector’s portfolio quality, financial health, and ability to serve excluded clients.
Microfinance Institutions Maintain Rebound, but Solvency Questions Loom
The latest Symbiotics indicators show that, as of October 2020, microfinance institutions (MFIs) remain resilient and have managed to stop the negative trends reported in the first half of 2020.
KfW Development Bank Invests EUR 20 Million in the Regional MSME Investment Fund for Sub-Saharan Africa
This investment will help to finance small and medium enterprises with the objective to create jobs in nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, that have joined the G20 Compact with Africa program initiated by the German Government.
Symbiotics Launches $10,5M Social Bond With La Hipotecaria Colombia
The proceeds of the Social Bond will be used to finance access to financing services, with its eligible subcategories: affordable housing and household financing.
Symbiotics Launches First Sustainability Bond With ARMECONOMBANK OJSC in Armenia
Symbiotics, the leading market access platform for impact investing, has arranged its first Sustainability Bond, that is also the first such bond in Armenia, by raising about $10,700,000 in local currency for ARMECONOMBANK OJSC.
CGAP, Symbiotics Partner to Monitor COVID-19’s Impact on Microfinance
The partnership will track and analyze the performance of hundreds of microfinance institutions across the world over the next six months, in an ongoing effort to shed light on how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the microfinance sector.
Private Asset Impact Fund Ecosystem Worth Over $30 Billion
Symbiotics publishes its inaugural global impact fund survey, merging its historical microfinance investment vehicle survey, started with the CGAP in 2007, and its private debt impact fund survey, started with the Global Impact Investing Network in 2018.
MFIs on the Rebound, but Will It Last?
From February to April 2020, microfinance institutions (MFIs) within the Symbiotics portfolio saw disbursements and repayments contract sharply across all regions.