Royston Braganza awarded Top 4 CEOs in Asia, Top 2 in India
The Finance Monthly has recognized our CEO, Royston Braganza amongst the top CEOs in the World in their annual CEO Awards publication. Royston credits his visionary, energizing, enthusiastic, passionate, compassionate and inclusive leadership style to God, a great brand, great pedigree shareholders and a passionate and committed team.
Finance Monthly (FM) is a global publication providing news, analysis and features on all the latest headlines within the financial sector. FM examines the key issues affecting the corporate, financial and legal community globally. It covers the major regions such as the US, Europe and Asia and all major financial sectors. FM offers a mix of news-led editorial features, with our editorial team exclusively interviewing some of the biggest players within the financial, corporate and legal fields. Finance Monthly is distributed every month to an international readership of over 100,000. Over a period of several months Finance Monthly’s research department has undertaken extensive research to identify some of the most successful and forward-thinking CEOs in business today. The end result is a publication detailing senior individuals who have helped shape the corporate landscape in 2013.
For more on Royston’s interview as well as the CEO Awards 2013 please refer to the following link.
http://headley.co.uk/headturner/FMCEOA13
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Patnis purchase stake in Grameen Capital India
Mumbai, November 26, 2012Grameen Capital India (GCI) today announced that Amit Patni and Arihant Patni have acquired a stake in the company from original investor IFMR Trust, in a landmark investment, marking a first-of-its-kind exit in the social business space.
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Vienova Education raises Rs.157 M from Bamboo Finance
Delhi, Apr 11, 2012Vienova Education Private Limited, a Delhi-based affordable education provider, has raised an additional Rs.157 M from Bamboo Finance, managers of the Oasis Fund, a Luxembourg-based investment fund with a successful track record of investing in emerging social enterprises across the world. The current investment follows earlier investments by Indian Angel Network and others in 2008 and Helion Advisorsin 2011. With this investment,
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BlueOrchard invests INR 45 Mn in Svasti Microfinance
Mumbai, May 9, 2011Svasti Microfinance Private Limited (“Svasti”), a Mumbai-based start-up Microfinance company, has successfully closed its second round of equity funding at the end of March 2011. Through its subsidiary in Mauritius, BlueOrchard Private Equity Fund has invested Rs. 4.5 crores. Grameen Capital India acted as exclusive advisor to Svasti on this transaction.
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Grameen Foundation and Grameen Capital Facilitate $7MM in Funding for Cashpor Micro Credit
New Delhi, April 4, 2011Grameen Foundation and Grameen Capital India today announced that they have facilitated US$7 million (Rs. 315 million) in funding for Cashpor Micro Credit through a guarantee pool for socially-focused Indian microfinance institutions (MFIs). The financing from IndusInd Bank and another leading private sector bank in India was backed by US$980,000 in guarantees from Grameen Foundation and arranged by Grameen Capital India.
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Grameen Capital hosts Tele-Roundtable: Microfinance, Malegam and "Mission Millions" 
Mumbai, January 25th, 2011
Grameen Capital hosts tele-roundtable to discuss the contents and impact of the recently released RBI Sub-Committee report on 'Issues and Concerns in the MFI Sector'.
Featured panellists include representatives from leading Indian MFIs as well as the lending and investing communities.
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Grameen announces $8MM guarantee facility for Indian MFIs
Mumbai, December 20, 2010Grameen Foundation and its affiliates, Grameen Capital India and Grameen-Jameel Microfinance Ltd., today announced a new initiative to address the liquidity needs of Indian microfinance institutions (MFIs) that demonstrate a double-bottom-line focus on social and financial returns.
Local bank financing has shrunk throughout India in the wake of events in Andhra Pradesh over the past three months, and this initiative seeks read more...
Mumbai-based Swadhaar Finserve raises Rs. 28 crore equity for expansion
Mumbai, Thursday, 08th July 2010
Swadhaar FinServe Pvt Ltd (Swadhaar), a microfinance institution headquartered in Mumbai, has just announced an equity infusion of Rs. 27.5 crores from multiple investors. In the most recent capital raising round, existing investors ACCION International, an Indian Family Trust, Unitus Equity Fund (managed by Elevar Equity), Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and the Promoter group all infused additional capital. MicroVest, a US-based pioneer read more...
Sanjay Nayar joins the Board of Directors of Grameen Capital India
Mumbai, Tuesday, 29th June 2010
Grameen Capital India Ltd., an investment bank to microfinance institutions (MFIs) and other 'Base of the Pyramid' initiatives, has appointed Sanjay Nayar as a Director to the board of Grameen Capital India (Grameen Capital)
Sanjay Nayar is the CEO and Country Head for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) in India,
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Developing World Markets invests in SMILE MICROFINANCE
Chennai, Mar 16, 2010
S.M.I.L.E. MICROFINANCE LIMITED (SMILE) recently agreed to an equity investment of Rs. 50 crores (~$10 million) from equity funds managed by Developing World Markets (DWM), a US based Social Investment fund manager. Grameen Capital India was the sole equity advisor to this transaction for SMILE.
Based in Chennai, S.M.I.L.E. MICROFINANCE LIMITED is one of the oldest Microfinance Institutions working in the State of Tamil Nadu.
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Janalakshmi Financial Services closes series B funding for expansion
Bangalore, March 7th, 2010
Janalakshmi Financial Services, a Bangalore based NBFC Microfinance Institution (MFI) promoted by Ramesh Ramanathan, has announced the closure of its series B funding of $ 10 million. This round was led by Treeline Asia Master Fund (Singapore), a leading hedge fund based out of Hong Kong and Singapore. Bellwether Microfinance Fund, an existing investor in the company also participated in this round Narayan Ramachandran, who recently relinquished
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Grameen Capital arranges Rs. 75 crore transaction for Bandhan and IndusInd Bank
Mumbai, April 08, 2009
Bandhan, IndusInd Bank and Grameen Capital India confirmed today having recently completed a Rs. 75 crore portfolio assignment of microfinance receivables.
This transaction was structured and arranged by Grameen Capital India and comprised a pool of advances to the agricultural and allied sectors
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Ujjivan Raises Rs. 94 Crores of Equity Capital
November 19, 2008
Ujjivan Financial Services is pleased to announce the successful completion of the fourth round of equity infusion. Originally planned for Rs.75 Crores, the equity round was over-subscribed and increased to Rs. 94 Crores. The incremental capital was largely subscribed by existing shareholders including Unitus Equity Fund (UEF) managed by Elevar Equity L.L.C., Bellwether Microfinance Fund, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, A.W. Holdings
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IndusInd, Grameen Capital, SKS partner in Rs 100 crore deal
Mumbai, Aug 20 2008, Wednesday
Three leading institutions, IndusInd Bank, Grameen Capital India and SKS Microfinance, today announced the closure of a Rs 100 crore closure assignment of microfinance receivables.
Grameen Capital structured and arranged the transaction, comprising a pool of advances to agriculture and allied sectors, a press release issued here
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Grameen forms investment bank for the poor
Mumbai, January 15, 2008, Tuesday
MUMBAI: Capital flows should become more promising for smaller microfinance institutions (MFIs), now that they have an investment banker to bank on.
The Washington-based Grameen Foundation co-founded by Dr Muhammad Yunus, IFMR Trust and Citicorp Finance India have partnered to form an investment bank for the poor, called Grameen Capital India (GCI).
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