CONFIE is legally incorporated in Spain as of an Entity Holding Foreign Securities (ETVE). An ETVE is a Spanish association subject to Taxes on Associations for the income perceived in Spain and exempt from taxation on dividends and/or capital gains from its affiliates operating in other countries.

Centro de Fomento a Iniciativas Económicas (FIE-Bolivia) is a not-for-profit civil association, founded in 1985 in response to the credit needs of the low-income population with no access to the traditional commercial banking system. In 1998, the Fondo Financiero Privado Fie S.A. was incorporated as a regulated microfinance entity. In 2001. Fie Gran Poder S.A. was founded in Argentina, a microcredit institution which aims to provide this service to the migrant population from Bolivia and other neighboring countries living in Argentina, which has no access to formal sources of credit.

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BlueOrchard Private Equity Fund S.C.A. is a Luxemburg fund specialized in microfinance whose mission is to empower persons of scarce resources worldwide and improve their quality of life. Its philosophy is based on the conviction that micro finances are a powerful tool for economic development and poverty relief and, therefore, BlueOrchard invests in microfinance to promote employment and income generation.

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Petterlaar Effectenbewaarbendrijf N.V is the legal representative of the SNS Institutional Microfinance Fund, whose funds are administrated by Developing World Markets to provide financial services to “poor” persons in developing countries, and guarantee the permanence of the MFIs contributing to their financial stability and sustained growth, as well as connecting them to international capital markets.

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Vincent Burgi, Swiss citizen with ample knowledge of microfinance, supportive of entrepreneurial social responsibility, invests in MIFs to contribute actively to the social and economic progress of the sector.