MFX Solutions / BBVA Continental / Overseas Private Investment Corporation / MicroRate / COM 19 Capital / Financiera Nueva Visión / Inter-American Development Bank / Fitch / Scotiabank / HSBC / REUTERS / Accion International / Citi / Credicorp / Banco del Trabajo / Credinka / Global Partnerships / Compartamos Banco / Diviso Financial Group / Banorte / Crédito Familiar / Pinebridge Investments / Prospero / Mibanco / Edyficar / Fundación Mundo Mujer / /
Continent
Europe / South America / /
Country
Nicaragua / Peru / Colombia / Dominican Republic / Mexico / United States / Bolivia / /
Currency
Peso / USD / /
Event
M&A / Company Expansion / /
IndustryTerm
main bank / microfinance lender / bank account / financial systems / mainstream banking system / risk management / financial conglomerate / finance / locally-owned bank / investment banking / bank / financial services / for-profit bank / physical distribution infrastructure / rural finance / consolidated bank / control systems / banking / bank access / payments systems / correspondent banking / /
Organization
US government / National Guarantee Fund / Ohio State University / BBVA Foundation / /
Person
Larisa Arteaga / Fernando Romero / Torres Llosa / Fernando Prado / María Mercedes Gómez / Mauricio Cárdenas / Eduardo Torres Llosa / María Belén Effio / Esteban Altschul / Alejandro Valenzuela / Patricio Diez de Bonilla / Santiago Arias / MELO DE VELASCO / Rubén Mendiolaza / Juan Claudio Fullaondo / Claudio González-Vega / Percy Urteaga / Eduardo García / Sergio Navajas / Claudio González Vega / Mark Coffey / Damian van Stauffenberg / Brian Cox / Fernando Albano / LEONOR MELO DE VELASCO / /
Position
deputy supervisor / vice-president of the board / executive director / president / chief executive / fascinating model / head of investment / investment and operating officer / microfinance advisor / director of Fundación Mundo Mujer / executive president / chief financial officer / board member / portfolio manager / professor emeritus of rural finance / general manager / specialist / financial institutions analyst / chief operating officer / correspondent / majority shareholder / finance minister / analyst / chief executive in Peru / analyst in the Dominican Republic / general manager for Latin America / /
COVER STORY After a period of rapid growth, microfinance is facing its toughest years yet. But as the region’s biggest banks step up their involvement, the industry has become an ever more integral part of Latin Americ