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The BBVAMF joins the celebrations to mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

15% of the most vulnerable and marginalized people in the world belong to some indigenous community There are 370 million…

The BBVA Microfinance Foundation takes part in the VIII Central American and Caribbean Microfinance Conference

Banco Adopem and Fondo Esperanza, banks belonging to the BBVA Microfinance Foundation (BBVAMF), have attended the VIII Central American and…

The Chairman of the Trustees of the BBVA Microfinance Foundation, the first winner of the Award for Excellence in Microfinance

This is the first time the Banco Centroamericano de Integración Económica (Central-American Bank for Economic Integration – BCIE) –which promotes…

Fondo Esperanza successfully concludes the campaign to disseminate its work among underprivileged entrepreneurs

“We have succeeded in broadcasting our message that entrepreneurship is a real option for thousands of Chileans who are looking…

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…