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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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August 2nd, 2010

BlogTV: Microcredit, a united solution

Microcredit is an international system that provides a way for entrepreneurs who, for one reason or another, cannot access traditional bank loans. The small amounts of money issued by microfinance institutions (MFIs) are then used by “micro-entrepreneurs” to start and build their businesses.
But how exactly does it work? What kind of help is provided for [...]

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Isabelle Palsky

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July 28th, 2010

A Story of Mutual Enrichment in Senegal

The program “Microfinance Sans Frontières”, a BNP Paribas initiative, has recently been embraced by BNP Paribas Fortis. [...]

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Franck Marion

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July 26th, 2010

Microfinance Sans Frontières in Haiti

Within the framework of its social and environmental responsibility, BNP Paribas supports “Microfinance Sans Frontières” association, which provides technical assistance to Microfinance Institutions (MFI) through a network of volunteers (active or retired, from the bank or not). Since its inception, MFSF has carried out around 50 missions in 10 countries for 12 different MFIs. MFSF [...]

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Samuel Lefevre

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July 23rd, 2010

FTT: Bolivia, Land of Extremes

The land of superlatives. This is how our travel guide refers to it, and rightly so. The poorest country in South America is also home to the highest, coldest, hottest, windiest, driest and wettest regions on the planet. And that’s not all – far from it. We feel as though we regularly have to resort [...]

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Benjamin Sierra

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June 28th, 2010

FTT: 2 Micro-entrepreneur Success Stories

Accompanied by FIE Gran Poder employees, we spent a day in a number of underprivileged districts of Buenos Aires, where we met two micro-entrepreneurs. [...]

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Loïc Linard

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June 25th, 2010

Panorama of microfinance in Argentina

Argentina is not a country in which microfinance flourishes, particularly in comparison with its neighbours, Bolivia and Peru. [...]

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Benjamin Sierra

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June 18th, 2010

FTT: Travelogue from the other side of the world

After Chile, FTT tackles Argentina! A huge country, the eighth largest in the world by size, extending nearly 4,000 km from North to South, with an incredible variety of climates and landscapes: from the summits of the Andes in the West, to the cloud forests to the North-East, through the deserts of the Pampas in [...]

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Johan Benichou

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June 17th, 2010

Microfinance in New York: Why not?

During a recent trip to Latin America, I took advantage of my presence on the continent to make a detour in New York.
You might assume that the main reason for my stop was an international conference to meet with colleagues working in this market. Far from it! There’s a particularly active group of microfinance volunteers [...]

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