FINCA

The Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA International) is a non-profit, microfinance organization, founded by John Hatch in 1984. FINCA is the innovator of the village banking methodology in microloans and is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern day microfinance. With its headquarters in Washington, DC, FINCA has 21 affiliated host-country institutions (affiliates), in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It serves 500.000 microloan clients with outstanding loans in 2006 of US-$ 100 million. Along with GRAMEEN Bank and ACCION International, FINCA is considered to be one of the most influential microfinance organizations in the world.

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