The ProCredit Group: Responsible Banks for Small Businesses and Ordinary People

The ProCredit Group: Responsible Banks for Small Businesses and Ordinary People

The ProCredit group comprises 21 financial institutions whose business focus is on providing responsible banking services in transition economies and developing countries. We aim to provide accessible, reliable services to small businesses and the ordinary people who live and work in the neighbourhoods in which we operate. At the end of 2009 our 19,600 employees, working in more than 830 branches, were serving 3.1 million customers in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa.

The first ProCredit banks were founded more than a decade ago with the aim of making a significant development impact by promoting the growth of small businesses. We sought to achieve this by providing loans tailored to their requirements and offering attractive deposit facilities that would enable and encourage low-income individuals and families to save. The group has grown strongly over the years, and today we are one of the leading providers of banking services to small business clients in most of the countries in which we operate.