KCB Group Plc is East Africa’s largest commercial bank that was established in 1896 in Kenya. Over the years, the Bank has grown and spread its wings into Tanzania, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Ethiopia (Rep). Further to the banking businesses in these markets, KCB Group owns the National Bank of Kenya, a Kenyan lender. Today KCB has the largest branch network in the region with 354 branches, 1,103 ATMs, and over 26,394 merchants and agents offering banking services on a 24/7 basis in East Africa. Additionally, KCB Group owns KCB Insurance Agency, KCB Capital Limited, KCB Foundation, and Kencom House Limited as non-banking businesses. This is complemented by mobile banking and internet banking services with 24hour contact center services for its customers to get in touch with the Bank. KCB has a wide network of correspondent relationships totaling over 200 banks across the globe and our customers are assured of seamless facilitation of their international trade requirements wherever they are.
Njeru Industries specializes in the processing and export of tea. The company receives an estimated 75,000 kgs of green leaf daily from 8,000 active smallholder farmers with a small portion (~9%) from Njeru Tea Estates (a sister company owned 100% by Njeru Industries' main shareholder).
Founded in 1996, Kashf Foundation has worked to pioneer microfinance services that empower and promote the economic self-reliance of poor women and their families in Pakistan. Kashf is now one of the premier microfinance institutions in the country, disbursing $202 million USD in loans to date and providing more than one million people with access to financial capital.
In its origins Banco Popular was the microfinance program of the Fundacion Covelo. In 2008 it was officially transformed into a regulated Bank and today is the second largest microfinance Bank in Honduras, with more than 20% of market share and 23 offices across the country. The Bank aims to support micro, small and medium enterprises in Honduras as an engine of economic growth, social development and poverty reduction.
Poa! provides low cost internet to individuals and small businesses in low-income neighborhoods in East Africa. poa! offers customers access to affordable and reliable data that is 40% cheaper than network operators, free content and free online services and tools. poa! services are delivered through a Wi-Fi network that blankets an entire neighborhood, enabling access to the internet on any Wi-Fi enabled device at any time. Unlike competitors, poa! offers transparent pricing, data bundles that are not time-limited and free content and online services such as job boards and marketplaces.
Candi is a solar company that provides small-scale commercial and industrial rooftop solar battery solutions.
Green Sustainable Ventures
Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Green Sustainable Ventures builds and operates a solar PV park. It handles the construction and operationalisation of a 20 MW photovoltaic panel solar plant in Svay Rieng in Southeast Cambodia.
AgroServ Industry is an industrial unit for processing corn into gritz and flour.The company processes 100 tonnes of maize per day into grits and flour and packed in bags of 5, 15, 20, 25 kg which makes it possible to market simple and fortified semolina and then commercialize the sound used in animal nutrition.
Victoria Commercial Bank is a commercial bank company that provides financial services. It also offers personal banking services to employees and corporate clients. They provide online banking, credit cards, and other financial services.
Spark+ Africa Fund is a fund of financial companies that provide next-generation, widely dispersed cooking energy solutions for the general public and was established to encourage investment in one of the world's most neglected energy concerns with substantial social and environmental ramifications. Other social and environmental advantages that businesses can provide include preserving forests, promoting gender equality, fostering industrial and economic growth, and lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
In its origins Banco Popular was the microfinance program of the Fundacion Covelo. In 2008 it was officially transformed into a regulated Bank and today is the second largest microfinance Bank in Honduras, with more than 20% of market share and 23 offices across the country. The Bank aims to support micro, small and medium enterprises in Honduras as an engine of economic growth, social development and poverty reduction.
Social Performance Task Force is a nonprofit membership organization promoting social and environmental performance management for financial service providers. The organization's vision is to be a transparent, responsible, and inclusive financial sector that achieves positive outcomes for low-income people. They believe the social impact is not automatically achieved by all pro-poor financial institutions. In fact, achieving positive outcomes for clients requires careful and balanced management. It aims to show the financial industry how to manage social performance.
T&T Fruits
Debt Financing in 2022
T&T Fruits is a family-owned company that specializes in the processing and packaging of fresh fruits for export.
Optimal Financial Services, in addition to providing a line of credit for personal consumption, facilitates the growth of companies by offering multiple credit lines, factoring services, and working capital.
TUNISIE LEASING provides leasing, factoring, and long-term rental of transport and equipment. They offer a short-term financing solution to companies that make sales or provide services to mobilize cash without imposing a payment deadline and a long-term rental solution for managing their vehicle fleet.
Cofina Mali is a microfinance group that focuses on supporting the growth of informal micro-enterprises in the region. As part of the broader Groupe COFINA, which was established in 2013, it operates in six French-speaking African countries, including Mali. The institution is dedicated to mesofinance and aims to enhance financial inclusion while promoting the formalization of the African business market. By investing in the dynamic private sector, Cofina Mali plays a crucial role in providing financial services that cater to the needs of small businesses, thereby contributing to the economic development of the area.
XpressGas offers marketing and distribution services of LP gas through refilling stations, consumer service stations, and cylinder depots. Swap and go, autogas solutions, LPG logistics and trucking services, bulk marketing, distribution, management contract for refilling stations, and other services are among the ones they provide.
Annapurna Finance is a microfinance venture that works for the financial and economic upliftment of underserved and unreached women. The company's purpose is the growth of the microfinance operation in the areas which are still away from the formal financial system of the economy and offer livelihood support to the poor households by providing financial and technical support to build up the entrepreneurial skill for the effective undertaking of business activities. It brings economically backward clients to the mainstream, offering need based financial services at its doorstep.
PT Mitra Bisnis Keluarga Ventura is a microfinance institution that provides working capital to low-income women to provide them with formal and cost-effective financial services (financial inclusion), reduce their vulnerability, and improve their lives. The institution's objective is to contribute to the government’s Sustainable Development Goals, particularly in fighting poverty and empowering women.
EDFI Management Company (EDFI MC) is a multilaterally owned impact asset manager which delivers innovative development finance solutions that enable European DFIs, development banks and private sector investors to increase the scale and impact of their work. The company focuses on business models, technologies and geographies where other investors have not been able to operate at the desired scale given their resources and investment criteria. To learn more visit www.edfimc.eu.
AviNiger
Debt Financing in 2020
AviNiger is a greenfield poultry project with a focus on producing eggs.
Tozzi Green is a company specialised in solutions, services, and projects for the development of plants and the generation of energy from renewable sources. That integrates the supply chain completely and horizontally.
FINCA Malawi is a licensed deposit-taking financial institution offering individual loans, savings, and insurance products designed for the local market.
South Asia Growth Fund II (SAGFII)
Venture Round in 2019
South Asia Growth Fund II (SAGF II), an investment fund dedicated to support energy and water efficiency in India and Bangladesh,
Cofina Sénégal is a microfinance group focusing its activities on income-generating loans and guarantees to unbanked MSMEs. In 2016, it started to deploy retail activities providing current accounts, savings accounts, notes, bank cards, online transfer services, and insurance products to its clients who were usually excluded from formal financial services.
Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union money transfer services.
Arrend provides services such Leasing, factoring, rents, investments, and insurance. company also offering Operating Leasing for vehicles and heavy machinery, developing market leadership. Its fundamental purpose is to make the figure of Leasing more and more used at the regional level.
Puratos Grand-Place Indochina is a developer of ingredients and solutions for chocolatiers, bakers, and bakeries. They provide raw materials and specialized solutions in the chocolate, bakery, and pastry industries to bakeries, food service companies, and supermarkets, as well as industrial and semi-industrial customers.
In its origins Banco Popular was the microfinance program of the Fundacion Covelo. In 2008 it was officially transformed into a regulated Bank and today is the second largest microfinance Bank in Honduras, with more than 20% of market share and 23 offices across the country. The Bank aims to support micro, small and medium enterprises in Honduras as an engine of economic growth, social development and poverty reduction.
Annapurna Finance is a microfinance venture that works for the financial and economic upliftment of underserved and unreached women. The company's purpose is the growth of the microfinance operation in the areas which are still away from the formal financial system of the economy and offer livelihood support to the poor households by providing financial and technical support to build up the entrepreneurial skill for the effective undertaking of business activities. It brings economically backward clients to the mainstream, offering need based financial services at its doorstep.
ARPE
Debt Financing in 2016
ARPE is a project company developing, constructing, and operating different hydro power projects in Northern Uganda.
ACEP Burkina is a MFI specialized in the financing of micro companies and very small enterprises existing in towns and close suburbs. Granted credits are mainly used to finance required working capital and investments. I&P and ACEP International which are old partners have decided to partner in 2008 to try to start a microfinance institution like ACEP in the country. In spite of a preexisting important mutual fund present in town zone, small entrepreneurs remain hardly linked to microfinance. Besides, it does not exist for the moment in Burkina Faso, a microfinance institution specialized in individual credit with an effective and appropriate technique of credit risk analysis towards very small companies. Financings trough subventions have been secured from the French Agency of Development then an agreement has been obtained from the ministry of finances in June 2012. The microfinance institution has started its activities in October 2012.
Acceso Crediticio is a Peruvian-based financial institution specializing in providing loans to base-of-the-pyramid entrepreneurs working in the transportation industry. The institution targets informal taxi drivers who develop their activities around the poorest urban areas of Lima, offering an adequate and appropriate product to an unbanked market segment neglected by traditional financial institutions. The products offered by Acceso incentivize the use of clean energy-powered vehicles, reducing CO2 emissions.
Alios Finance Group, is a leading operator in Africa providing specialized financial solutions to Professionals and Individuals. The firm is operating in 9 Sub-Saharan countries (Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania and Zambia). It is is also present in North Africa (Algeria and Tunisia) through our main shareholder: Tunisie Leasing Group
Fusion is head quartered in New Delhi and is operational in the less penetrated North Central part of India (Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana). The company started its Greenfield operations in January 2010 and further augmented it by acquiring the microfinance division Aajeevika (a not for profit body operating in Delhi). At the time of acquisition Aajeevika had a base of 1280 members with a loan book of Rs 6.3 million.
Berkeley Energy has deep renewable energy and power engineering, construction and investment experience in developing markets, where it is a focused investor, developer and deliverer of renewable power assets. Berkeley works with its partner companies to provide engineering, management and financial support, whilst offering the ability to act as a bankable sponsor for renewable power projects.
Banco Regional provides banking services. They offer personal banking, business banking, credit cards, savings, deposits, and loans. They support the modernization of companies and new industrial projects with medium- and large-scale financing.
Summit Power International is an infrastructure developer and operator in South Asia. SPI comprises a group of businesses which focus on developing, owning and operating power generating assets. Our portfolio of infrastructure assets produce reliable energy for sale to governments and state utilities, in return providing long-term predictable revenue streams.
Annapurna Finance is a microfinance venture that works for the financial and economic upliftment of underserved and unreached women. The company's purpose is the growth of the microfinance operation in the areas which are still away from the formal financial system of the economy and offer livelihood support to the poor households by providing financial and technical support to build up the entrepreneurial skill for the effective undertaking of business activities. It brings economically backward clients to the mainstream, offering need based financial services at its doorstep.
Indorama Fertilizers operates a world-class, 1.4 million metric tonnes per annum urea manufacturing facility based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The plant has been developed to global environmental, social and construction standards. It plays a key role in supporting the agricultural sector in Nigeria by providing a reliable supply of fertilizers for local farmers, thereby enabling import substitution and supporting the diversification needs of the Nigerian economy. Indorama Fertilizers is also advantageously located to serve neighboring West African countries and key Western hemisphere markets, including North America, South America and Europe
Azito owns and runs a thermal power plant in Ivory Coast. A subsiduary of Globelec and IPS WA, Azito’s gas-fired plant uses indigenous natural gas resources, ensuring energy independence while also enabling Côte d'Ivoire to become an important electricity supplier to other parts of West Africa.
Interact Climate Change Facility is a co-financing facility dedicated to climate-friendly investments. It finances renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the private sector in developing countries and emerging economies.
Polaris Renewable Energy is a company engaged in the operation, acquisition and development of renewable energy projects in Latin America.
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