In the first year of the Schwab Charitable Microfinance Guarantee Program, donors set aside $10-million from their gift funds to guarantee small loans to poor entrepreneurs in developing countries. As ...
In May, Dell, through a program-related investment (investments in ventures with a charitable purpose, usually at below- market rates of return), and Unitus, through its own private-equity fund, ...
BlueOrchard Finance, a Switzerland-based impact investment manager, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have entered a $50 million risk-sharing agreement for microfinance coverage in ADB’s developing ...