{"id":2665,"date":"2023-03-27T16:20:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T14:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2023-03-27T16:29:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T14:29:35","slug":"southbridge-investments-sbi-has-been-selected-as-an-ia50-emerging-impact-manager-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/southbridge-investments-sbi-has-been-selected-as-an-ia50-emerging-impact-manager-for-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Southbridge Investments (SBI) has been selected as an IA50 Emerging Impact Manager for 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x-content-band-1\" class=\"x-content-band vc first-row show-mobile\" style=\"background-color: transparent; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; position:fixed;z-index:999998;top:0;right:0; width: 100%;display:none;\"><div class=\"x-container wpb_row\"><div  class=\"x-column x-sm vc x-1-1\" style=\"text-align:center;\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"sb-close-modal sb-close-news\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"x-content-band-2\" class=\"x-content-band vc first-row hide-mobile\" style=\"background-color: transparent; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; position:fixed;z-index:999999;top:0;right:0;\"><div class=\"x-container wpb_row\"><div  class=\"x-column x-sm vc x-1-6\" style=\"\" ><hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 1px 0 0 0;\"><\/div><div  class=\"x-column x-sm vc x-2-3\" style=\"\" ><hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 1px 0 0 0;\"><\/div><div  class=\"x-column x-sm vc x-1-6\" style=\"\" >\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_raw_html wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"team-close-btn sb-close-modal sb-close-news\">\n<li>close<\/li>\n<li>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"x-img x-img-none right\" style=\"width:29px;height:29px;margin: 20px !important;\/* display: inline-block; *\/\" src=\"http:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/close-1.png\">\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"x-content-band-3\" class=\"x-content-band vc\" style=\"background-color: transparent; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\"><div class=\"x-container wpb_row\"><div  class=\"x-column x-sm vc x-1-6\" style=\"\" ><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><div  class=\"x-column x-sm vc x-2-3\" style=\"\" ><hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 6.25em 0 0 0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_raw_html wpb_content_element sb-post-categorie\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\tNews, Press Releases\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_raw_html wpb_content_element sb-post-title\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h3>Southbridge Investments (SBI) has been selected as an IA50 Emerging Impact Manager for 2023<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_raw_html wpb_content_element sb-post-date\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h5>mars 27, 2023<\/h5>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 45px 0 0 0;\"><p><strong>MAURITIUS<\/strong> (March 27, 2023) \u00ad\u00ad\u2013 Through its innovative approach known as PesaPoa, which means \u201ccool money\u201d in Swahili, SBI is committed to making sustainable investments with high impact to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).<\/p>\n<p class=\"textearticle\">At least 40% of SMEs in Africa are women owned.\u00a0 The total MSME finance gap globally for women according to the World Bank is US$1.7 trillion (over 6 percent of global GDP). In Africa, the financing gap for women MSMEs is estimated at US$50 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textearticle\">Leveraging on innovative technology and science-based lending practices, PesaPoa is a\u00a0$30 million automated digital platform providing working capital finance to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) with a special focus on women owned, led or impacting MSMEs. The facility is well-engaged on a transformative journey to deliver 1 million loans to 100,000 companies, in 10 African countries, and create 100,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textearticle\">PesaPoa\u2019s approach to solving the working capital challenges faced in the market, uses digital gaming (experiences\/scenarios) enabled by mobile and financial technologies to drive last-mile financial inclusion, especially for micro-enterprises (up to 10 employees).<\/p>\n<p class=\"textearticle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impactassets.org\/\">ImpactAssets<\/a>\u00a0released the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/impactassets.org\/ia-50\/\">ImpactAssets 50\u00a02023 (IA 50)<\/a>, a free publicly available, searchable database of impact investment fund managers for impact investors, family offices, corporations, foundations, and institutional investors. For more details, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/\">www.southbgroup.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 100px 0 0 0;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #11283d;\">Share this article<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div  class=\"x-column x-sm vc x-1-6\" style=\"\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>close \u00a0 News, Press Releases Southbridge Investments (SBI) has been selected as an IA50 Emerging Impact Manager for 2023 mars 27, 2023 MAURITIUS (March 27, 2023) \u00ad\u00ad\u2013 Through its innovative approach known as PesaPoa, which means \u201ccool money\u201d in Swahili, SBI is committed to making sustainable investments with high impact to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). At least 40% &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/southbridge-investments-sbi-has-been-selected-as-an-ia50-emerging-impact-manager-for-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">En savoir plus<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southbgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}