The EIB Group and microfinance: promoting inclusive finance

The European Investment Bank Group has a long-standing track record in microfinance, supporting leading microfinance institutions, fund providers and stakeholders, helping them to address specific market failures and promoting financing solutions to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as to low-income groups.

Since 2003, the EIB Group has committed EUR 881m to microfinance activities, in nearly 50 countries, inside the European Union, in EU Neighbouring and Candidate countries, and outside the European Union, where the Bank is active across the sub-Saharan African, Caribbean and Pacific regions as well as in the Mediterranean partner countries.