operative Financial Services (CFS) - Home Futures Group New Local Government Network » New Local Government Network BRIEF: responsibility Social Investments AG Makes Debt Investments Totaling $1.7m in MBK Ventura of Indonesia, COOPAC Norandino of Peru and COAC Mushuc Runa of Ecuador responsAbility Social Investments AG (responsAbility), an investment manager founded in 2003 in Switzerland, reported to MicroCapital that it recently made four debt investments totaling USD 1.7 million in microfinance institutions (MFIs) MBK Ventura of Indonesia, COOPAC Norandino of Peru and COAC Mushuc Runa of Ecuador. The responsAbility Global Microfinance Fund (rAGMF), a microfinance investment vehicle (MIV) managed by responsAbility, made a debt investment in Mitra Bisnis Keluarga (MBK) Ventura, a non-banking microfinance institution founded in 2003 in Indonesia, totaling IDR 2.2 billion (USD 746,045) at a fixed rate of 11.8 percent for a 12-month period. responsAbility Mikrofinanz-Fonds, an MIV managed by reponsAbility and financed by German banks Bank im Bistum Essen and Stadtsparkasse Dusseldorf, also made a debt investment in MBK Ventura totaling EUR 196,011 (USD 248,680) under the same terms. By Diana Baide, Research Assistant Sources and Additional Sources:
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