| August 2009 |
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| Some Fear Profit Motive to Trump Poverty Efforts in Microfinance
From a warehouse in this scruffy suburb outside Paris, Jacques Attali has been building what he calls the “McKinsey” of the microfinance world, a one-stop consulting shop for the sector. |
July 2009 |
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| ACCION to Sponsor 'Microfinance for Institutional Investors'
ACCION(R) International, a pioneer and leader in microfinance, today announced that it will serve as the official sponsor of a new conference examining the latest microfinance investment strategies. |
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| Symbiotics won the 2008 Award for Best Responsible Investor by AMFOT
Symbiotics SA Information, Consulting & Services, won the 2008 Award for “Responsible Financing” in the category “Best Investor”, awarded by the Association of Micro-Finance Organizations of Tajikistan (AMFOT) |
April 2009 |
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| INNPACT, a new independent responsible finance consulting company in Luxembourg
Patrick Goodman and Arnaud Gillin are pleased to announce the creation of Innpact Sàrl, a new player within the responsible finance industry. Innpact offers specialised consulting services in the establishment of microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs) but also in other sustainable development businesses such as social finance, renewable energy or energy efficiency. The new company results from the management buy-out of Symbiotics’ Luxembourg based consulting arm, allowing both teams to better focus on their core activities. |
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| Symbiotics and LuxFLAG Collaborate on MIV Information
Symbiotics and LuxFLAG announce their collaboration on providing information on Microfinance Investment Vehicles (MIV). This collaboration materializes in the publication of a new reference webpage on LuxFLAG accredited MIVs. |
April 2008 |
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| IFC, KfW set up $1bn Microfinance Program
International Finance Corporation (IFC) and German development bank KfW have announced the Microfinance Initiative for Asia (MIFA) to commit up to $1 billion through debt and equity investments, structured finance and advisory services to support microfinance institutions (MFIs). |
September 2007 |
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| Symbiotics closes the first series of its Subordinated Debt CDO programme to provide quasi capital financing to microfinance institutions
Symbiotics Securities SA, the microfinance investment structuring boutique of Symbiotics, closed its first series of subordinated debt CDO. Symbiotics Securities SA acted as sole sponsor and arranger of the deal and as sole origination agent of the underlying loans, for microfinance programmes in Peru, Nicaragua and Kazakhstan. The Notes were sold to investors in Switzerland, the equity tranche through the government agency Seco/Sifem, the mezzanine tranche to private investors through responsAbility and the senior notes to pension funds and institutional investors through Finethic Microfinance. |
April 2007 |
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| Symbiotics closes Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) deal to provide local currency financing to microfinance institutions
On 5 April 2007, Symbiotics closed a Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) deal that raises funding for micro-finance institutions (MFIs). Symbiotics acted as sole sponsor and arranger of the deal and as sole originating agent of the underlying loans. The MFIs come from five countries in South America, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and East Asia. Financing has been arranged in USD, EUR and PEN (Peruvian Soles). The deal has a volume of some USD 18 million. |
March 2007 |
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| First Housing Microfinance CDO In Works
Housing MicroFinance is preparing the first collateralized debt obligation backed by loans to microfinance institutions to underwrite loans to buy, build or improve homes. |
January 2007 |
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| Buchanan Completes Microfinance Securitization Worth $60 Million
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC recently handled the MicroFinance Securities (MFS) XXEB deal, a securitization of cross-border loans to approximately 30 microfinance institutions. The transaction directed $60 million of international capital to low-income entrepreneurs in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and Africa. |
November 2006 |
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| Macro Microfinance
Jacques Grivel is a soft-spoken and very innovative young Swiss financier, founder of high-performance risk analysis and asset management firms such as theScreener.com and Fundo. |
October 2006 |
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| Symbiotics closes Microfinance collateralized debt obligation (CDO) transaction
On 18th October 2006, Symbiotics S.A. concluded the third and final closing of “Microfinance Loan Obligations SA – Compartment Opportunity Eastern Europe 2005-1”. This deal raises funding through the capital markets for microfinance institutions (MFIs) belonging to the Opportunity International Network in the Balkans and Russia. The financing, with a total volume of EUR 26 million, is an asset-backed (Collateralized Debt Obligation) transaction structured under Luxembourg securitization law. |
June 2006 |
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| Microfinance Securities XXEB (MFS)
Developing World Markets has successfully structured and closed Microfinance Securities XXEB, a $60 million securitization of cross-border loans to approximately 30 microfinance institutions (MFIs) in 15 countries. |
February 2006 |
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| Newsletter February 2006
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| Symbiotics in International Securitization Report
We have had an article published in ISR about the CDO we have done with Opportunity International in the Balkans. Because you have to register to view the article, here’s what it’s all about: |
January 2006 |
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| A microfinance article in the Swiss german newspaper "Neue Zürcher Zeitung"
Microfinance - A social investment that makes a difference (translated from Swiss German)
Symbiotics has been named has a structuring agent from Geneva |
November 2005 |
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| Symbiotics structures Collateralized Loan Obligation with the European Investment Fund
On 30th November 2005, Symbiotics S.A. and European Investment Fund (EIF) concluded a highly innovative deal that raises funding through the capital markets for microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the Balkans. |
October 2005 |
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| Newsletter October 2005
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