Program: Purpose: Amount: Term: Start date: Location:

Microfinance Increase transparency in microfinance $955,000 Two years March 2008 Global

Why We Partnered

The Microfinance Information Exchange, Inc. (MIX) is the leading business information provider dedicated to strengthening the microfinance sector. The organization’s core focus is to provide objective data and analysis on microfinance providers. In doing so, MIX promotes financial transparency in the industry and helps build the information infrastructure in developing countries.

The MIX Market 2.0 has been launched. It is a next-generation Web platform for sharing reliable, comparable and publicly available information on the financial strength and performance of microfinance institutions, investors, networks and service providers associated with the industry. MIX Market 2.0 improves the speed, accuracy and usability of the current MIX Market Web platform, which serves more than 25,000 visitors per month.

Results To Date

• MIX Market now captures more than three times as much MFI data as it did previously
• Users now have more detailed data on MFI performance