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About PlaNet Finance

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PlaNet Finance is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) that aims to alleviate poverty worldwide through the development of microfinance. PlaNet Finance is recognized as one of the fastest growing and most dynamic organizations in the field.
As the microfinance expert, PlaNet Finance Group provides a diversified set of services to help grow microfinance, and microfinance institutions:

1. PlaNet Finance Advisory Services ,the technical assistance and consulting provider;
2. PlaNIS, the business unit specialized in microfinance fund advisory and management;
3. Planet Rating,the microfinance rating agency;
4. MicroCred,the microfinance investment company;
5. PlaNet Guarantee,the microinsurance specialist;
6. FinanCités,the venture capital company for microentrepreneurs in French deprived urban areas.

Based in Paris, PlaNet Finance is active in more than 80 countries and gathers more than 1,000 staff.

Each year, PlaNet Finance Advisory Services manages approximately 100 programs with about 200 microfinance institutions (MFIs), reaching more than 4 million clients. Planet Rating conducted 464 rating missions, and MicroCred now runs 6 microfinance institutions. PlaNet Guarantee has been able to provide microinsurance products to 125,000 microentrepreneurs. PlaNIS set up the financing for 74 MFIs mainly on behalf of responsAbility funds /Credit Suisse and MicroFund for a total of USD 153 million. In one year, FinanCités financed 36 microentreprises in France for a total of EUR 1.9 million.

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