To register online to the INAISE International Conference 2013, please click here.

Detailed agenda of the event days:

The current crisis is a sign that society is in a process of fundamentally change. This is especially true in the banking industry. We need to reflect on the changes needed for a more sustainable and socially responsible finance sector - but opportunities to do this in educational settings are rare. One step to change could be the course explained below.

INAISE welcomes the decision of the European Parliament to have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a bill enabling the creation of a new label identifying European Social Entrepreneurship investment Funds (EuSEF), as well as introducing Europe-wide regulation of venture capital.

We have the great pleasure to announce the membership of BancoFIE in INAISE, approved by the Board of INAISE in its session on 31st of january. "For INAISE it is a stimulating signal to possibly count with and rely on a social financial institution, such as Banco FIE, with its impressive track record over the last 20 years in Bolivia and Argentina" said Dominique Lesaffre, president of INAISE. BancoFIE is a bolivian financial institution, very much engaged in microfinance.

Web: www.bancofie.com.bo

Since 2006 the Institute for Social Banking, member of INAISE, organises summer schools. This year it will take place from 14th to 19th July 2013 in Filzbach, Switzerland. It will be organised with the support of Alternative Bank.

At the 2013 Summer School the participants will meet in the Swiss mountains to explore together how Social Banking can encourage and support initiatives and business ventures which cultivate our common, shared responsibility for:

INAISE-members can save the date for our next general assembly and conference that will take place in Oaxaca/ Mexico on 28th resp. 29th/30st of may, organised with the help of FOROLACFR!  More information and details about inscription will follow in february. Looking forward to see you all!

More information about Oaxaca              

For members of INAISE it might just be a rhetorical question, but maybe not for the common client of the oldest bank in Luxembourg, the BCEE: "How to deal with money - Time for a change?" More than 200 clients of the state owned bank will attend a conference tomorrow 8th of november, to get answers: philosophically, but also very practical.

De Jean-Michel Servet, une 'plume' reconnue dans le secteur de la finance sociale, vient de paraître un livre "Les monnaies du lien". Il y fait le lien entre paléomonnaies et économie solidaire. Ses propos sont toujours passionnants à lire ... et à débattre!

Plus sur l'auteur

Lire ici une critique de Alain Max Guénette (IMSI, HEG), paru dans L'AGEFI en octobre 2012:

La monnaie comme élément central du lien social

The role of Development Microfinance in Job Creation

The Development Micro Finance sector (DMF) has been creating jobs in South Africa for about 25 years.  In this country there is a distinction between ‘consumption’ microfinance (loans given mainly to the ‘working’ poor) for consumption purposes, and ‘development’ microfinance (loans given to micro-entrepreneurs - self-employed persons) for productive purposes.