The six Principles for Responsible Investment are a voluntary and aspirational set of investment principles that offer a menu of possible actions for incorporating ESG issues into investment practice.

The Russia Small Business Fund (RSBF) was established by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in 1994 to provide financial support to the Russian small business sector.

The development of microfinance in Europe has encountered many legal and political obstacles. It is therefore important that the European Microfinance Network be strongly involved in advocacy on a wide range of issues related to microfinance, micro-enterprises, social and financial exclusion, self-employment and employment creation.

The Luxembourg Finance Labelling Agency (LuxFLAG) is an independent, non profit making, association created in Luxembourg in July 2006.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) helps businesses flourish. Through our financial investments, business services and involvement in high-level policy dialogue, we are well placed to promote entrepreneurship and change lives. Our tailored solutions share a consistent goal of fostering the transition to market economies, whilst promoting innovation, growth and transparency.

The European Investment Fund is a European institution whose main purpose is to support the creation, growth and development of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Initiated in February 2009 by KfW Entwicklungsbank (“KfW”) and International Finance Corporation (“IFC”), a member of the World Bank Group, Microfinance Enhancement Facility S.A., SICAV-SIF (“MEF”) was setup in February 2009 and has been designed to support the microfinance institutions facing difficulties in securing financing by providing them with much needed financing at a time when investment was in high demand but low supply.

Mikro Kapital is a member of ALFI since 2019.

ALFI is the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry and is the official representative body for the Luxembourg investment fund industry, set up in November 1988 to promote its development.

The association now includes a wide selection of service providers: custodian banks, fund managers and administrators, transfer agents, fund distributors, law firms, consultants and tax advisers, auditors and accounting firms, IT services companies, etc.

Luxembourg is the largest fund domicile in Europe and its investment fund industry is a world leader in cross-border fund distribution.

The Association of European Businesses is the main representation of foreign investors in Russia. Founded in 1995, the AEB is an independent non-profit organisation of over 500 European and Russian companies. The AEB members are multinational corporations and small and medium-sized enterprises. They all share a commitment to boosting cooperation between the EU and Russia, as well as the desire to improve the investment climate of the Russian Federation.
The AEB includes 60 committees, subcommittees and working groups that are engaged in lobbying on a wide range of issues in various business areas including energy, transport and customs, agriculture, air travel, passenger cars and commercial vehicles production, legislation, taxation, banking, real estate, crop protection products and many others. These committees work closely with the European and Russian authorities, and provide comments and suggested changes to the draft laws of the Russian Federation.

Mikro Kapital Group is member of AEB  since 2019.

Banca del Mezzogiorno MedioCredito Centrale, as a recruiter of RWAs, is mainly engaged in the management of two funds from the Ministry of Economic Development, or the Central Guarantee Fund, which facilitates access to credit for SMEs and Sustainable Growth Fund, which aims to support and promote research and development projects.

The “CASSA DEPOSITI E PRESTITI” and “IL FONDO EUROPEO DEGLI INVESTIMENTI” (our partners) signed a counter-guarantee agreement aimed at increasing microcredit in SMEs by drawing on the guarantees of the FEIS (European Fund for Strategic Investments) through the European COSME Program (” Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises “) dedicated to supporting SMEs.

The “Ente Nazionale per il microcredito” is a non-economic public entity that performs important microcredit and microfinance functions at national and international.

GENERAL INVEST (Switzerland) AG part of Mikro Kapital Group is a member of Swiss Sustainable Finance (SSF) an association founded in 2014 with representation in Zurich, Geneva, and Lugano.

Currently, SSF unites over 110 members and network partners from financial service providers, investors, universities and business schools, public sector entities and other interested organizations.

SFF has the aim to strengthens the position of Switzerland in the global marketplace for sustainable finance by informing, educating and catalyzing growth.

Our Swiss local subsidiary promotes and persuades the same purposes and for this reason, we want to be part of a platform like Swiss Sustainable Finance.

Primary sources
http://www.sustainablefinance.ch/upload/cms/user/20190104_List_of_Members_and_Network_Partners.pdf