Colombia

Bancamía signs an agreement for gender equality in Colombia

According to the PAR 2017 Ranking, in Colombia, women receive 22% less salary than men. The PAR Community was launched…

Bancamía supports peace-building in Colombia through financial services

With the aim to contribute to financial inclusion and reduce poverty in Colombia, Bancamía facilitates access to financial services for…

“Microfinance is a very powerful tool to advance towards social inclusion and collective well-being”, financial superintendent of Colombia

More than 850,000 vulnerable people are served by Bancamía in Colombia, an entity of the BBVA Microfinance Foundation, who presented…

Josefina, the dream weaver

Josefina is an indigenous Wayuu, from a village in La Guajira region, in western Colombia. Thanks to Bancamía, today she…

“I’ve changed lives with my business”

Floralba Lucumí talks about her life, her business and her family with passion. This Bancamía entrepreneur is the mother of…

Neither earthquakes nor tsunamis can hold María back

In less than five minutes María Carrasco lost the investment which had cost her years of effort. On two occasions,…

Microloans that change lives

María Aurora Múnera says that, at 52 years old, she has a lifestyle she could never even have imagined, because…

BBVA earmarks €200m for the world’s first private microfinance network

Francisco González says, “BBVA wants to make microfinance accessible to the poorest levels of society. It is therefore launching a…