July 2016

UN grants consultative status to BBVA Microfinance Foundation

The United Nations Economic and Social Council, ECOSOC, has recently awarded consultative status to the BBVA Microfinance Foundation, in recognition…

IFC Launches Second Taino Bond, Raising $4 Million for Microfinance in the Dominican Republic

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, issued a six-and-a-half-year 180 million Dominican peso-denominated bond (approximately $4 million) to…

The United Nations invites the BBVA Microfinance Foundation to the High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment in Latin America

“Our women entrepreneurs save 35% more than men, despite earning 25% less”, according to Laura Fernández Lord, head of Gender…

The director of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Fund highlights the contribution of the BBVAMF in the fight against poverty

“The BBVA Microfinance Foundation proposes programs to promote women’s empowerment and to help vulnerable people escape poverty”. With those words…

ADOPEM celebrates its 34th anniversary contributing to the development of the Dominican Republic

Over one thousand employees of Banco ADOPEM and ADOPEM NGO took part in the bank’s anniversary celebrations. The slogan of…

The BBVAMF’s Progreso magazine publishes a selection of its interviews with experts on development, microfinance, corporate governance and equality

Access issue 7 of “Progreso” in Spanish and in English The latest issue of “Progreso: Corporate Governance, Inclusion and Development”,…

The new Fondo Esperanza branch office in the Ligua will serve more than 600 vulnerable entrepreneurs

Vulnerable Chilean entrepreneurs from the communes of La Ligua, Papudo, Cabildo, Petorca, Valle Hermoso, Catapilco, Placilla and Pullalli will be…

“Get on the entrepreneurship minibus” is the campaign slogan for disadvantaged entrepreneurs to find out about Fondo Esperanza

Fondo Esperanza’s annual campaign for Chilean society to find out about the products and services offered to vulnerable entrepreneurs is…

Bancamía, finalist in the Andesco Award for Corporate Social Responsibility 2016 for its inclusive social performance

This award is recognition of the work and mission performed by the bank to improve the quality of life of…