International Summit on Global Microfinance Investments

C5 presents the European Edition for leading investors and industry experts. The experts will share how to balance the needs of the issuers against the risk/reward appetite of investors so that a well structured mechanism can evolve to facilitate and increase global investments in microfinance. It will discover how microfinance is managing to survive the credit crunch and what makes microfinance an even more attractive asset class in 2009. The event will be followed by a post-conference workshop on Managing and Hedging Foreign Exchange Risk on March 4, 2009......

This conference aims to attract attention to microcredit applications, seeking opportunities to reach microcredit resources by raising its awareness, learning from the best practices and gathering administrators, practitioners and academicians to promote idea exchanges among stakeholders. The conference will cover:.........

Organized by the Department of Commerce, School of Management of Pondicherry University, the conference aims to:

• Provide a forum of economists and socialists to address the issues relating to microfinance;
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Financial institutions have been formally managing their risks from inception. But the perception of risk management is fundamentally changing within these institutions. No longer is it seen purely as a control mechanism – but as a critical input into the basic business question: am I earning enough revenue out of this transaction to compensate me for the additional risks I am taking on?

Most MFIs have a social mission. Social Performance Management (SPM) is a systematic approach to putting that mission into practice. There are targets, systems and information to keep track of financial performance. The same now applies for social performance. MFIs (leaders, boards) around the world are beginning to think about this and how to operationalize it as part of their management & reporting.