The ProCredit Holding is the

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of a development-oriented group of commercial banks for small and medium enterprises (

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), which operate in

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, and

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. The business model of the group is based on "socially responsible banking". The group’s core business consists of offering banking services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). An emphasis is placed on expanding the group’s green loan portfolio and promoting local production, especially in

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

. In addition to serving SMEs, the ProCredit group also pursues a direct banking strategy for private clients, particularly the growing middle class. ProCredit Holding, which began as Internationale Micro Investitionen AG, was founded in 1998 and is currently managed by Sandrine Massiani, Dr Gabriel Schor, Dr Gian Marco Felice and Christian Dagrosa. The company has a Fitch Rating of BBB. As the group’s superordinated institution, it is regulated by the German and

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. According to the group’s annual report for 2020, the total assets of the ProCredit group amounted to approximately EUR 7.3 billion. It holds customer deposits of about EUR 4.9 billion and has a gross loan portfolio of around EUR 5.3 billion. The promotion of green loans to finance projects in the fields of energy efficiency and

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(Pillar III) is the strategic focus here. In 2020, approximately 40% of the group’s total loan portfolio growth was in green loans.

ProCredit Holding banks

A full list of the banks in the ProCredit group can be found in the following table.

Shareholders

The following

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s held more than 5% of the

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in ProCredit Holding as of 21 December 2016, thus representing the main shareholders:ProCredit Holding Website
(Retrieved 22 October 2021) * Zeitinger Invest GmbH (17.0%) *

KfW The KfW, which together with its subsidiaries DEG, KfW IPEX-Bank and FuB forms the KfW Bankengruppe ("banking group"), is a German state-owned investment bank, investment and Development finance institution, development bank, based in Frankfurt ...

(13.2%) * The Dutch DOEN Participaties (12.5%) * IFC (10%) *

TIAA The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA, formerly TIAA-CREF), is a Fortune 100 financial services organization that is the leading provider of financial services in the academic, research, ...

(8.6%) * Other shareholders (together 38.7%)

References

External links

Procredit Holding website
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