Ecology Building Society today welcomed the ambition of the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO), but raised concerns about whether the initiative can achieve a step change in the energy efficiency of the UK’s housing stock.
In reponse to the excessive commercialisation of microfinance and the commercial derrivatives it has led to, the Paris Appeal reminds the fundamental values of the sector and proposes a series of actions meant to improve its practices and impact.
Much like itself, INAISE invites you to support the Paris Appeal for responsible Microfinance. To read the text of the appeal in French, click here.
On Tuesday, 20 December 2011, Prof. Laurent WEILL(Université de Strasbourg, France) will be presenting a research paper at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB): "Does Competition Influence Banks Failures?"
Last week, an INAISE Board meeting was held in Bochum, Germany. Over the course of this meeting, INAISE had the pleasure to validate the applications and welcome several new members into our organisation:
ADAPTE (Costa Rica)
Red FASCO (Guatemala)
Solidaria de Inversion (Costa Rica)
To these three new members, we say welcome to the network!
On November 11th , 2011, the Malian Solidarity Bank (BMS-SA), the AOPP as well as France’s SIDI and through it, its founding body CCFD, came together to sign a three-year Memorandum of Understanding to foster social and rural finance in that vulnerable country.
