MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Satisfied Producer of Palm Oil in DRC Has Been “Brought Back from the Brink,” DFIs Sell Debt Holdings in PHC to Maku; Funding to Improve Community Relationships Will Continue

Four European development finance institutions (DFIs) recently sold their debt holdings in Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC), a palm oil business in Democratic Republic of the Congo, to Maku Holdings, an affiliate of Kuramo Capital Management, which has offices in Kenya, Nigeria and the US. The DFIs are

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Banco Santander, DEG, IDB Invest, Itaú BBA Loan $150m to Banco Pan to Boost Digital Financing of Vehicles, Microenterprise, Consumption in Brazil

IDB Invest, a member of the US-based Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, is leading a loan package totaling USD 150 million for Banco Pan SA, a Brazilian commercial bank, with the aim of increasing access to digital financial services for people with low incomes. The loan funding includes USD 50 million from IDB Invest, USD 25 million from Germany’s Deutsche Investitions-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG), and USD 75 million as a B loan funded in unspecified portions by Spain’s Banco Santander and Brazil’s Itaú BBA. Banco Pan plans to use the funding,

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Khan Bank of Mongolia Borrowing $120m from FMO, Atlantic Forfaitierungs, DEG, IIB, PROPARCO – Part for MSME Loans, Green Capacity

Khan Bank, which serves individuals and companies of all sizes in Mongolia, recently agreed to accept a borrowing package of USD 120 million arranged by Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden (FMO), a Dutch public-private partnership. FMO is funding

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: DEG, agRIF, Daiwa Enter $9m Equity Agreement to Support Rent2Own, a Transportation Company in Myanmar

Deutsche Investitions – und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG), a subsidiary of German development bank Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW); agRIF, a fund of Belgium’s Incofin Investment Management; and Japan-based asset manager Daiwa Partners recently signed an agreement to make an equity investment totaling USD 9 million