A USEFUL GROWTH

CreSud is a private limited company offering financial resources to MicroFinance Institutions and Associate Producers Latin America, Africa and Asia.

We have a dual goal: to improve the accessibility to financial services for subjects currently/normally excluded by local financial systems, and to expand the choice for socially responsible saving and investing.

Born in 1999, CreSud is owned by particulars, cooperatives and associations working in microfinance and Fair Trade. Amongst them: CTMaltromercato (Italian leading Fair Trade operator), Microcredit Coop, World Shops (members of CTM: Chico Mendes, Mandacarù, Nuova Solidarietà), CIPSI (an NGO consortium).

CreSud is founding member of the European Micro Finance Plateform, and of the Permament Committee on MicroCredit for Italy. We are a member of IFAT, and we participate to the MixMarket and to the Italian Microfinance Plateform.