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Rating products

MicroFinanza Rating offers a range of rating products to microfinance institutions (MFIs), to investors, regulators and networks. The rating methodology is constantly reviewed and upgraded to respond to the ever changing features of the microfinance industry.

Find the rating product that best suits your needs. Learn which are the rating criteria adopted by MicroFinanza Rating and how they apply to the rating process.

Other services

Besides the core products (ratings), MicroFinanza Rating offers a variety of services tested and standardized along the years, responding to the different information needs of microfinance stakeholders. On the common feature of each product is the deep analysis and the validation in place of the information and opinions issued.

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Training

MicroFinanza Rating multi-national team provides training sessions to national and international microfinance institution networks, donors, investors, policy makers, regulators and supervisors, as well as other stakeholders. Our trainers are microfinance experts combining a deep knowledge of microfinance issues with field-related experience.

Training modules include:

  • Microfinance and social rating methodology
  • Financial risk assessment
  • Social performance management
  • Corporate governance
  • Performance indicators in microfinance
  • Liquidity risk
  • Market risk
  • Operational risk                                                           Read more about our trainings

MicroFinanza Rating

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MicroFinanza Rating is a leading microfinance rating agency. Since 2000 we strive to produce independent and qualitative information that promotes responsible flow of investment towards the microfinance industry. This is achieved through provision of a comprehensive package of institutional and social performance assessment services to microfinance institutions (MFIs), investors, regulators, donors and networks.

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Our decentralized organizational structure comprising of regional offices in Quito, Managua, Mexico City, Bishkek, Manila and Nairobi together with our international team of professionals are key to ensuring deep knowledge of our clients and local markets. MicroFinanza Rating has performed about 600 assessments so far in over 60 countries worldwide.

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MicroFinanza Rating is a qualified and indipendent rating agency officially recognized by the Rating Initiative launched by ADA Luxembourg, the Moroccan APP and the Latin American Rating Fund II. Moreover, we are an active member of the Social Performance Task Force (SPTF) and are actively participating to the Smart Campaign, whose Client Protection principles we have endorsed. We are the first specialized rating agency to be recognized by a national regulatory authority (Superintendency of Banks and Insurance in Ecuador) and licensed to carry out credit ratings of regulated financial institutions. Our Social Rating Department is pioneer in the development and servicing of the "comprehensive" methodology whose added value is now internationally recognized by the microfinance industry. Specifically, our social ratings and social diagnostics address issues relating to client protection, transparent pricing, corporate social responsibility, among other, therefore promoting responsible microfinance practices in the industry worldwide.

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Newly issued ratings

MAXIMA, Cambodia, Microfinance Rating

UNRWA Jordan, Jordan, Social Rating

Jitegemea Credit Scheme, Kenya, Social Rating

Download our latest reports from the Ratings & Assessments section, after subscribing to our services.

Upcoming missions and events

In February MicroFinanza Rating team will be in the following countries: Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Kyrgyz Republic, Swaziland, South Africa, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico.

Newly posted job vacancy Check out the current job opportunity available at the Bishkek Regional Office. Find the open position under the Section "Job opportunities" in "Contacts".
First release of the paper on governance and social performance management

MicroFinanza Rating Executive Director Aldo Moauro & former Social Rating Director Micol Guarneri in collaboration with her former Deputy Lucia Spaggiari have issued the first release of the paper authored for the Global Microcredit Summit to be held November 14-17, 2011 in Valladolid, Spain. The paper is titled "Motivating Your Board of Directors to Actively Promote and Deepen Your Social Mission".

Click here to read the full text. Feedbacks are welcome!

African Microfinance Pricing Transparency Leadership Forum MicroFinanza Rating will be participating to the African Microfinance Pricing Trasparency Leadership Forum, scheduled for October 5-7, 2011, in Nairobi, Kenya. The Forum will provide policymakers and regulators with the opportunity to exchange their experiences....
Thank you, Micol!

After more than 10 years of great commitment and huge contribution to the consolidation of MicroFinanza Rating, Micol Guarneri is going to engage in a new professional challenge as ....

Lucia Spaggiari is the new Social Rating Director Lucia Spaggiari is the new Social Rating Director of MicroFinanza Rating.
4th AMT’s Investor’s Fair

MicroFinanza Rating will be participating to the African Microfinance Transparency (AMT) Forum, which will take place on the 13th and 14th of October 2011, in Accra, Ghana. The purpose of the Fair is to promote transparency within the African microfinance sector and to....

MicroFinanza Rating promotes and signs the Code of Conduct! On Friday 2nd of September 2011 MicroFinanza Rating signed in Luxembourg the Microfinance Rating Agency Code of Conduct, of which it has been a leading promoter jointly with two other specialized rating agencies, MicroRate and Planet Rating. The goal of this conduct is to...
Special thanks to Giovanni Calvi from our Executive Director

"A big THANK YOU to Giovanni Calvi.  After 6 years of great commitment in helping the establishment and the consolidation of our first regional office, in Quito Ecuador, as well as the enhancement of our operations in the whole Latin America, Giovanni is now exiting ...

Welcome to MFR new team member in Nairobi!

We are pleased to announce that starting 1st of July, 2011 our Regional Office in Nairobi has acquired a new Junior Analyst.

Fresh funds for ForUs Bank

Forus Bank, a Russian deposit-taking MFI, has received debt investments from the three microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs) managed by responsAbility Social Investments AG, a Swiss investment company, totalling USD 6 million, of which USD 4 million has been provided in local currency. ForUs Bank underwent three microfinance rating assessments with MicroFinanza Rating in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

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