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August 1st, 2011

BlogTV: Volunteers without borders

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Microfinance Sans Frontières is a project that matches eager volunteers, both working and retired, with microfinance institutions, or MFIs, around the world. The match is made on the basis of the needs to of the MFIs and the particular skills and schedules of the individuals involved.
How are these volunteers recruited? And how exactly does the [...]

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Isabelle Palsky

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April 11th, 2011

A loan for Fair Finance

£1 million of financing is being provided to the East London-based organisation, in order to fund small personal and business loans. [...]

microStart, a new Microcredit agency in Brussels

Two microcredit agency opened their doors in the Brussels region mid-January, and were officially inaugurated last Monday, February 28. [...]

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Lily Dionne

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October 5th, 2010

FTT : “Microfinance works” in Senegal

We’re on the final stretch! After travelling through Asia, Oceania and South America, we’re now in Africa. During the next month and a half, we’ll be crossing Senegal, Mali and Burkina Faso. The rainy season has forced us to abandon our bikes, but not our walking shoes…We’re discovering the simplicity of backpacking, all the while [...]

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Johan Benichou

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September 21st, 2010

FTT: “To save is to invest in hope…”

Here’s a brief insight into our journey through Ecuador, the last destination on our great American adventure. Although the women in Ecuador wear panama hats rather than the bowler hats favoured by the women in Peru, and use American dollars rather than the Peruvian sol, we felt that there were a number of similarities between [...]

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Benjamin Sierra

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September 6th, 2010

Collective credit in Peru

For the past 10 years, she has worked with Promujer (a Microfinance Institution – MFI) because “access to credit is easier than with banks”, she explained. “We formed groups of 20 to 25 people, because it’s easier to get loans as a group. This way, we didn’t need to provide guarantees, which we would have had to do for the banks”. [...]

FTT: the landscape of microfinance in Peru

Like Bolivia, Peru is truly a country of microfinance. But although the principles of microfinance have always existed there, it was not until the 1980s, and especially in the first years of the new millennium, that the sector really began to take off, alongside a genuine “boom” in the Peruvian economy. Today there are over [...]

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Loïc Linard

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August 13th, 2010

MFSF: A week on assignment in Burkina Faso

I first heard about MicroFinance Sans Frontières, a BNP Paribas Group initiative, in June of 2008. I had already been interested in microfinance for about 6 years, and in 2002. I wanted to give my career a more international scope. I contacted a number of NGOs and had several interviews, but was unsuccessful due to [...]

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Florence Mengin

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August 4th, 2010

Microfinance Develops and Grows in Bolivia

Although Bolivia is the poorest country in South America, microfinance is more highly developed there than anywhere else on that continent. The reason is simple: almost all the country’s banks view microfinance as one of their key products, and the provincial branches of those banks are dedicated exclusively to serving a low-income clientele with a [...]

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Johan Benichou

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