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CMI – Catalyst Microfinance Investors
Key features
- Country of incorporation: Mauritus
- Year founded: 2006
- Legal Status: Limited Liability Company
- Fund Assets: USD 125,000,000 (as of 2008-Feb-08)
- Fund Assets Allocated to MF Investments: 100%
- Number of active MF investments: 9
- Area of Operation: Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
- Participant(s)/Backer(s)/Investor(s): ASA, Sequoia BV and Gray Ghost Microfinance Fund
Brief Description
Catalyst Microfinance Investors (CMI) is a microfinance private equity fund with a term of 10 years. CMI’s final closing of USD 125 million took place in February 2008. As of December 31, 2008, CMI had invested USD 31 million in ASA International, a holding company affiliated with ASA of Bangladesh that owns and operates microfinance institutions in India, the Philippines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Nigeria and Ghana. Gray Ghost Microfinance Fund is one of CMI’s cornerstone investors.
Contact Information
CMI Europe: Mr. Maurice Koppes, Rokin 44 III, 1012 KV Amsterdam, the Netherlands, +31 20 8202128, info@catalyst-microfinance.com
CMI Asia: Mr. Mohammed Azim Hossain, 23/3 Khilji Road, Shyamoli, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh, +880 2 911 6375, +880 2 811 9828, fax +880 2 912 1861, info@catalyst-microfinance.com
Link on MIX Market
http://www.mixmarket.org/service-providers/cmi