by Sheen Gupta -

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: MFIs in Albania, Georgia, Vietnam Borrow $8m from C-Quadrat Impact Asset Management’s Dual Return Vision Microfinance Funds

Impact Asset Management (I-AM), a unit of Austria’s C-Quadrat Investment Group, recently announced it has disbursed loans totaling USD 8 million to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Albania, Georgia and Vietnam through its Dual Return Funds. One of these loans was

by Eha Joshi -

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: EBRD Loans $6m to OTP Bank Albania to On-lend to SMEs, EU Offers Premiums for Hitting Goals

Országos Takarék Pénztár (OTP) Bank Albania, a member of the Hungary-based OTP Bank Group, recently borrowed EUR 5 million (USD 6.1 million) from the UK-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Albania in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by upgrading