The Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR), which the EU passed in 2019, resulted in a “seismic shift” for impact investment funds and their investees. At the closing plenary of European Microfinance Week 2023, Emmanuelle Javoy of Switzerland-based investor Symbiotics explained her firm’s response to SFDR. The company invested a large amount of resources to review the sustainability objectives of each of its 25 funds.
Jurgen Hammer of the
Today’s opening plenary of European Microfinance Week included a celebration of the accomplishments of the European Microfinance Platform’s (e-MFP’s) Green Inclusive & Climate Smart Finance Action Group. The group has grown to 150 people and still is accepting new members.
One of the main outputs of the group is the Green Index, which helps financial services providers (FSPs) evaluate their performance in terms of green inclusive finance. The Action Group introduced the index in 2014 and most recently updated it in 2022. One of the group’s most recent outputs is the
The tenth Central American and Caribbean microfinance conference is themed “Resilience and recovery of financial inclusion in the new reality.” The first morning is a forum for showcasing new technologies. The remaining two days will cover themes such as digital transformation, gender equity,