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Microfinance Professional

Md. Mosharrof Hossain — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:00:05 -0500

BURO Bangladesh is a leading Microfinance organization in Bangladesh.I would like to be a part of the people that are going to joing that conference .BURO Bangladesh is one of the pioneer Microfinance Institution in Bangladesh who has explored the opportunity to be stand on perfect commercialization of microfinance managing commercial funds in a sustained manner for poverty alleviation. Kindly send me all the necessary detail about it. Regards and Thanks, Sincerely yours. M.Mosharrof Hossain, Finance Director, BURO Bangladesh

Want to attend this conference

Abdulai Sheriff Jalloh — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:23:12 -0500

I am a Sierra Leonean, and also an international business man.I want to be part of the people that are going to joing that conference .Kindly send me all the necessary information about it . Thanks. Sincerely yours. Abdulai

ACCION Conference: Microfinance Cracking the Capital Markets II

Lauren Abendschein — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:27:22 -0500

Start: Mar 19 2007 - 09:00

End: Mar 20 2007 - 12:30

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

Location:
Waldorf Astoria, New York, NY

description:

The ACCION conference on microfinance investment brings together money managers, hedge funds, institutional and private investors, bankers and rating agencies—many as yet unfamiliar with microfinance—to discuss the challenges, realities and opportunities of making microfinance a commercial asset class.

Participants at Microfinance Cracking the Capital Markets II will:
• Explore the latest deals and optimal shareholder structures.
• Discuss investment risks, hedging and exit strategies.
• Determine the investment potential for VCs, pension, emerging markets and social investment funds.
• Discuss the future of IPOs and other access to equity in microfinance institutions.
• Hear from fund managers and individuals that have already invested.
• Discuss future structures that meet investment grade criteria.
• Interact with rating agencies to understand their pivotal role in "mainstreaming" microfinance investment.
• Determine what it will take to market microfinance
paper to both individual and institutional investors.