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ACCION Global Investments Group

ACCION’s Global Investments group establishes and strengthens the connection between the resource needs of the microfinance industry and the capital markets. Through the development of a family of social investment vehicles, ACCION creates mechanisms that enable socially responsible investors to participate in its efforts to promote financial inclusion. ACCION further facilitates access to, and awareness of, microfinance investment by coordinating the activities of the Council of Microfinance Equity Funds.

 

Core Business Areas

ACCION helps increase access to financial services for microentrepreneurs by providing early stage commercial and quasi-commercial capital for MFIs and microfinance infrastructure. ACCION's Global Investments group invests directly in emerging partner institutions, as well as technology and information services, through a range of guarantee and equity funds. In addition, FMS seeks active governance roles through its Gateway and Gateway Microfinance Infrastructure (GMI) funds.  
  • Guarantee funds include the ACCION Latin America and Global Bridge Funds. Learn more >>
  • Equity funds include the Gateway Fund, Gateway Microfinance Infrastructure Fund (GMI) managed by the Frontier Investments Group and Gateway Microfinance Investment Vehicle Fund (G-MIV) Learn more >>

Industry Initiatives

In addition to its core business areas, ACCION's Global Investments group actively seeks to advance industry development by promoting and participating in collaborative relationships that capitalize on the comparative strengths of leading industry players and by undertaking activities that build our collective knowledge and capacity to react to a rapidly changing and evolving industry. Examples of our efforts in this capacity include:
  • Foreign Exchange Risk Mitigation Facility. ACCION is a steering committee member for this initiative. 
  • Standard & Poors Microfinance Ratings Criteria Working Group.
  • Microfinance credit risk training for the financial community

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