Finance in Motion

🚀 Exciting News from the SANAD Fund! 🚀 We're proud to announce that through the SANAD Fund, has joined forces with IFC - International Finance Corporation and Proparco in a USD 65 million financing agreement with the Bank of Palestine. This partnership is focused on supporting the growth of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as Palestine's economy recovers. With SMEs making up 85% of economic activity, this funding provides essential liquidity. SANAD's involvement showcases its ongoing commitment to empowering SMEs and promoting inclusive financial landscapes in the MENA region. Through SANAD, we're committed to empowering SMEs and fostering inclusive financial growth in the MENA region. #EconomicRecovery #SMEGrowth #InclusiveFinance #FinanceForGood #MENA

🚜 How can farmers benefit from high-tech solutions? As a manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment, Gardarika Tres has been at the forefront of precision farming in Ukraine since 2014. Gardarika’s flagship product, the efarm.pro navigation assistant, optimizes farm processes. With the Ukrainian Business in Action program grant support of the Finance in Motion advised Green for Growth Fund, they developed an IoT computer to control liquid fertilizer application. This innovation enhances safety and efficiency, especially in mined fields. Their mission? To provide Ukrainian farmers with high-tech solutions to improve efficiency. By reducing fuel and fertilizer consumption and increasing machinery efficiency, it’s a game-changer for sustainable agriculture. Ukrainian farmers using efarm.pro products have collectively reduced CO2 emissions by over 1.5 million tons. Thanks Alexander Prykhodchenko for providing us a look behind the scenes. #BusinessResilience #StandWithUkraine #SustainableDevelopment

🌿 Exciting News! 🌿   Finance in Motion is now a proud member of the Amazonia Finance Network! 🎉. It is an alliance initiated by IDB Invest and IFC - International Finance Corporation to mobilize capital with the aim of generating positive environmental and social impact across the Amazon region. Press release: https://lnkd.in/ezBj-wzY   We have an unmatched 15-year track record of mobilizing public and private capital through innovative financing instruments to drive positive environmental and social impact in the regions where it matters most.   Through the eco.business Fund, we’ve been working for over a decade to promote business and consumption practices that contribute to biodiversity conservation, sustainable use of natural resources, and climate change mitigation and adaptation across Latin America, a region highly vulnerable to loss of biodiversity and adverse impacts of climate change.   Continuing with our sustainability pathway for the region, two years ago we launched the Latin America Green Bond Fund (LAGreen Fund), to promote best practices and high impact standards, with the aim of consolidating green bonds as an instrument to mobilize funding from international capital markets, financing the transition to more sustainable economic models in the region.   Joining the Amazonia Finance Network aligns perfectly with our goals. As part of this network, we look forward to:   ✅ Collaborating with other leaders in sustainable finance ✅ Leveraging innovative financial solutions to protect and restore the Amazon rainforest ✅ Expanding our efforts in promoting sustainable development ✅ Mobilizing funding through the capital markets to catalyze forest conservation    We’re excitedly looking forward to our collaborative projects and initiatives aimed at creating a positive impact in the Amazon region! #AmazoniaFinanceNetwork #SustainableFinance #EnvironmentalImpact #SocialImpact #Sustainability #AmazonRainforest

🧦Since 1994, Rubizhne Hosiery Manufactory has been a manufacturer of hosiery products for famous Ukrainian brands. Facing adversity during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the business relocated from Luhanska to Lviv to resume production. With the grant support from Finance in Motion advised European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE) and EU4Business, the team of Rubizhne were able to 🏢 buy 3 special high-speed circular knitting machines and sewing equipment 📈 reach the level of producing 12,000 pairs of socks per month 🛠️employ 62 people Learn more about Rubizhne's journey: #BusinessResilience #StandWithUkraine #SustainableDevelopment

We were mentioned in a Financial Times article!🗞️   Since we started our journey of impact investment, it has become more and more mainstream, and we’re grateful to be mentioned among the forefront of pure-play impact investors. Impact investment is investment with a purpose, making a measurable positive impact alongside financial returns.    We future-proof investors’ portfolios and drive impact for people and planet through specialist private-asset solutions in emerging markets.   #ImpactInvesting #SustainableFinance #emergingmarkets

🌍"We are one of the few that are still active in #Ukraine; we are a speedboat with which funds can be moved and deployed quickly." – says our Managing Director, Sylvia Wisniwski in her latest interview published in Germany’s most prestigious newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.  🚀 With over 2 billion euros raised in private capital, our impact stretches across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. Today, our fund assets exceed 4 billion euros, with 30% sourced from private investors such as pension funds, insurers, and family offices, through our innovative impact investing #funds. “In the 15 years we've been operating, private investors have never experienced a loss, and public funds with an 8 billion euro investment volume have only seen minimal losses,” Sylvia proudly notes. Read the full interview to learn how we are successfully investing private and public capital in high-growth geographies, driving tangible #environmental and #social impact alongside returns. More about our Impact Investing solutions, here: https://lnkd.in/egarR97t #ImpactInvesting #PublicPrivatePartnership

🌎 "Green technologies and renewable energy are our planet's future," says Sergiy Zinkevich, Executive Director of SUNSAY NRG. Sunsay NRG, a top player in the Ukrainian market, specializes in solar panels for MSMEs and households. By using advanced computer modeling, Sunsay NRG calculates solar power plant efficiency. Through the Ukraine Business in Action program, supported by GGF TAF (managed by Finance in Motion), they were able to streamline processes, improve financial reporting, and significantly increase procurement efficiency. Over 50 employees stand behind Sunsay’s vision to create positive change and the overall goal to support Ukraine becoming energy-independent and sustainable. ☀️ Find out more about Sunsays work #StandWithUkraine #SustainableDevelopment #BusinessResilience

As a GIIN member, we deeply appreciate this recurring opportunity and look forward to exchanging ideas with like-minded peers and professional investors on steering more investments into critical avenues like energy transition, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation and adaptation, through viable investment vehicles. Register here to join us: https://lnkd.in/eiTrM7wA

🌱 LAGreen: Driving Green Investments in Latin America! 🌱 Since 2021, the LAGreen Fund has been a cornerstone in developing the Latin American green bond market. With an initial $100 million from the European Union and German government, we've deployed capital and attracted contributions from other investors. Learn more from our Fund Director, Diego Stapff, as he explains how our deep market knowledge and local stakeholder integration allow us to access bonds often unavailable to international investors. Discover more about our journey and future plans in our new interactive 2023 Impact Report: https://lnkd.in/e45vxvUf Let's drive sustainable growth together! 🌿 #GreenBonds #SustainableInvesting #LatinAmerica #ImpactInvesting #LAGreen

🌾 Meet the team behind Polissya. For over two decades, Polissya has cultivated success in the heart of Ukraine’s agricultural landscape. From cereals and pulses to oilseeds and dairy production – they are the experts. Through the support by EFSE (advised by Finance in Motion) and EU4Business as part of the Business in Action program, Polissya were able to adapt their milking and dairy cow management techniques. By investing in better milking machines, they lightened the workload for their staff, improved milk quality and working conditions — all without compromising yield or profitability. 📹 Watch Polissya’s success story here: https://lnkd.in/endP7T3V #StandWithUkraine #SustainableDevelopment #BusinessResilience