The International Association of Microfinance Investors (IAMFI) is a global membership organization exclusively dedicated to serving current and potential microfinance investors, especially those who invest in funds and other vehicles. Microfinance provides low-income households and enterprises access to capital and other financial services.

IAMFI helps commercially oriented microfinance investors achieve their goals by offering credible, objective industry information, facilitating dialogue and working to improve the global environment for microfinance.

IAMFI thanks its visionary and generous Seed Capital Funders and Founding Members DOEN Foundation of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Gray Matters Capital of Georgia, USA and Omidyar Network of California, USA for providing start-up capital for IAMFI’s creation.

Today's Microfinance News

Current Research

Loan Clauses That Bite - A guide to potentially dangerous covenants in common MFI loan agreements
Microfinance Voices
Marcus Fedder
Published by: Microfinance Gateway
June 5, 2009

Cautious Resilience: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Latin American & Caribbean Microfinance Institutions
MF Insights
Sebastian von Stauffenberg, Damian von Stauffenberg, Stephen Brown, Maria Belen Effio
Published by: MicroRate
March 2009

Will the Bottom of the Pyramid Hit Bottom? The Effects of the Global Credit Crisis on the Microfinance Sector
microNOTE #55
Barbara Magnoni and Jennifer Powers
Published by: USAID
March 2009

Shedding Light on Microfinance Equity Valuation: Past and Present
Nick O'Donohoe, Frederic Rozeira de Mariz, Elizabeth Littlefield, Xavier Reille, Christoph Kneiding
Published by: CGAP and J.P.Morgan
February 3, 2009