{"id":39634,"date":"2021-07-23T07:25:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T07:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abdas.org\/?p=39634"},"modified":"2021-07-23T07:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T07:25:14","slug":"fmo-continues-its-flow-of-investment-into-regmifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/2021\/07\/23\/fmo-continues-its-flow-of-investment-into-regmifa\/","title":{"rendered":"FMO continues its flow of investment into REGMIFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/FMO-investment-in-REGMIFA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33222\" \/> FMO, a Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, has increased its investment in REGMIFA, the Regional MSME Investment Fund for Sub-Saharan Africa, to $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>This new investment will help Africa&#8217;s MSME sector thrive and boost economic development by creating jobs, increasing income, and reducing poverty.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 financial institutions will receive the investment, which will be used to finance loans to enterprises and low- and middle-income people.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase in class B-Shares with a seven-year maturity will bring the fund&#8217;s total assets to over $160 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFMO has been a supporter of REGMIFA since its establishment in 2010 and is delighted to do so again. FMO&#8217;s lowering disparities approach is matched with REGMIFA, which allows the bank to access more end clients in more markets across Sub-Saharan Africa, according to Huib-Jan de Ruijter, Chief Investment Officer at FMO.<\/p>\n<p>Symbiotics SA advises REGMIFA, a public-private collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>REGMIFA funds microfinance institutions, community banks, and other specialised financial institutions, such as leasing, factoring, supply chain finance, off-grid solar, and Fintech firms, in order to achieve its goal.<\/p>\n<p>REGMIFA is currently active in 20\u00a0difficult-to-reach nations in Sub-Saharan Africa, 13 of which are least developed.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, it offers financial intermediaries a reliable source of long-term, local currency financing as well as technical help.<\/p>\n<p>REGMIFA indirectly helps 165,000 micro-entrepreneurs and households through cooperating financial intermediaries, who receive an average loan of $830.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cREGMIFA is a unique blended financing structure that has effectively integrated the supply of debt finance with technical assistance for more than 10 years,\u201d said Laure Wessemius-Chibrac, Chairman of REGMIFA. FMO&#8217;s investment in B Shares demonstrates their faith in REGMIFA and will go a long way to help small and medium-sized businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FMO, a Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, has increased its investment in REGMIFA, the Regional MSME Investment Fund for Sub-Saharan Africa, to $10 million. This new investment will help Africa&#8217;s MSME &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54233,"featured_media":39635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[514,462,509,504],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39636,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39634\/revisions\/39636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}