White paper: Banking for Impact

October 22, 2018

This white paper reviews the key developments that have taken place in inclusive finance markets over the period 2006-2017, supported by 12 years of data on the business models of Symbiotics’ partner financial institutions.
This research includes trend lines on more than 40 performance indicators, each segmented by region, by financial institution type, and by financial institution size.

The report serves as a benchmark for the impact investing industry, enabling a broad understanding about financial intermediaries’ clients and products, their assets and portfolio, funding structure, risk management and return patters.