The Covid 19 has had a negative impact on the lives of many people, organizations, and sectors of the economy worldwide. It is also fair to recognize that faced with the “new normality”, there have been providers of essential services…
With the SMART Campaign’s retirement in March 2021, a quick look back at the path travelled, and some thoughts on social performance. For a long time, the achievement of social impact was considered a given of microfinance activity: since people…
Since 2018 FS Impact Finance – in partnership with the GLS Microfinance Fund – has been sponsoring different kind of technical assistance (TA) programmes for our partner MFIs, their staff or their clients. The most established programme is our sponsorship…
Over the past months, the financial inclusion sector has embarked on a journey to face the Covid-19 crisis. On the field, Financial Service Providers have taken measures to face the health risks, lock downs and the economic recession1. They have…
Covid-19 is impacting our lives in almost every way, privately and professionally. And it will continue to do so for quite some time, even if a proper vaccine is developed in the months to come.This blog aims to give you…
Part II: Spotlight on investing in loans versus buying bonds As usual, one can complain about a lot of things in capital markets – at any time. But one of the few things surely no one can complain about was…
In a first post, the author looked at the importance of the sustainable development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as a cornerstone to economic development: they create the most jobs (in volume), generate the most value-added and, though not…
There seem to be rather good crash barriers on each side of the investment path for fixed income investors in developed markets as there are two very basic idioms: “Don’t fight the central bank” and “bad news is good news”.…
