Advans Microfinance Network

Financial ServicesÎle-de-France, France5001-10000 Employees

Advans is a leading international microfinance group.

Advans vision is to build a model group of financial institutions which contribute to strengthening local businesses, creating and sustaining jobs and improving clients’ living standards in order to foster private sector-led economic and social development in Africa, the Middle-East and Asia. 

Our mission is to respond to the need for financial services of small businesses and other populations who have ill-adapted, limited or no access to formal financial services through providing tailored financial services in a sustainable and responsible manner.

Advans SA SICAR (Advans) is a Luxembourg-based investment company established in 2005 by Advans International (formerly Horus Development Finance) and several Development Finance Institutions. Its current shareholders are the European Investment Bank (EIB), the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), CDC Group Plc. (CDC), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), KfW Development bank (KfW) and FISEA (AFD Group).

The Advans Group is active in nine countries in Africa and Asia: Cambodia, Cameroon, Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tunisia and Myanmar. At December 2020 the group had over 1,090,000 clients and more than 7,500 staff with EUR 1.03 billion in outstanding loans and a total deposit portfolio of over EUR 587 million.

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