October 2016

Entrepreneurship and youth: a commitment to development

The Ibero-American Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan attended the opening of the Ibero-American Entrepreneurial Conference, prior to the 25th Ibero-American Summit of…

Rural women and the eradication of poverty are Bancamía’s main priorities

Bancamía has joined in the commemoration of the international days organized by the United Nations to shine a spotlight on…

Fondo Esperanza narrows the inequality gap through entrepreneurship

Every 17 October since 1992, the United Nations has commemorated the “International Day for the Eradication of Poverty”, an initiative…

Loans from Banco ADOPEM contribute to eradicating poverty

To mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Banco ADOPEM announced that after one year with the bank,…

Banco ADOPEM, at the Expo CONACERD 2016 business fair

Banco ADOPEM has taken part for the first time in Expo CONACERD, where it presented products for micro, small and…

Starting up a small business as a way of rising out of poverty

 According to the World Bank, 3.08 billion people live on less than $4 a day.  The BBVA Microfinance Foundation supports…

Banco ADOPEM supports Rural Women

68% of its customers are women. 39% are from the rural environment

The challenging path of rural women

Guaranteeing rural women access to productive resources empowers women and contributes to reducing hunger and poverty in the world, according…

In eight years Bancamía has served over 1.3 million entrepreneurs

The bank's social performance results reveal an improvement in the quality of life of its customers. After the second year…

New issue of the BBVAMF’s “Progreso” magazine, featuring an interview with Timothy Adams, president and CEO of the Institute of International Finance (IIF)

The eighth issue of  “Progreso: Corporate Governance, Inclusion and Development”, the quarterly legal newsletter from the BBVA Microfinance Foundation (BBVAMF), includes…

Financiera Confianza obtains 2.6 times the demand in its placement of the A series of its fifth issue of negotiable certificates of deposit

Financiera Confianza placed negotiable certificates of deposit at 360 days for S/70 million soles and obtained in response a demand…

The president of Chile presents Fondo Esperanza with the “Financial Inclusion Award 2016” for its support for entrepreneurship among the prison population and the homeless

The award recognizes Fondo Esperanza's work to support particularly vulnerable sectors like prison inmates and people who live on the…