MAS Financial Services Limited of India sold $1.5 million in Common and Preferred Shares to the Bellwether Microfinance Fund. MAS, a non-banking finance company, is downscaling operations to focus on microfinance. Bellwethers investment is aimed to assist MAS in enlarging its microcredit portfolio, which it hopes to increase to 75% of its total portfolio over the next five years. MAS Financial does not currently report to the MIX Market, and no further financial information is currently available.
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