Event Name: Understanding Failures in Microfinance
Event Date: September 22, 2010
Event Location: Center for Financial Inclusion, Washington, DC, USA
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Cost: Free
Summary of Event: Alex Silva will lead a presentation concerning microfinance institution (MFI) failures and lessons learned from those failures. The presentation will reference material from a recent study conducted by Mr Silva and the Canadian non-governmental organization (NGO), Calmeadow, concerning the failure of 10 MFIs in Latin America.
Background on Organizer: Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI) was started by US nonprofit ACCION International with the goal to connect the microfinance community with major drivers of the global economy. CFI works with microfinance experts, banks, investors, regulators, technology firms, universities and others to facilitate global financial inclusion.
About the Presenters: Alex Silva is currently the principal partner, president and founder of Omtrix Inc, a privately owned financial consulting firm. He is also manager of Antares Fund, a for-profit equity fund aiming to develop a secondary market for shares of MFIs. He is also executive director of Calmeadow and represents the NGO on the board of Africap, a fund specialized in providing equity and long-term funding to African MFIs.
For additional information you may contact: Emily Leeding via eleeding@accion.org or +1 (202) 393 – 5113
Event Website: http://www.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/Page.aspx?pid=1306
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By Matthew Fox, Research Assistant
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