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Efficiency and Sustainability

Five strategies to minimise foreign exchange risk for microfinance institutions (pdf 134kb)

As the microfinance industry matures and microfinance institutions (MFIs) require increasing amounts of capital from a variety of sources, there has been extensive growth in international lending to MFIs and a similar increase in foreign exchange risk.

This paper highlights strategies to minimise foreign exchange risk, and provides examples of actions taken to offset this growing risk in the microfinance industry.

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