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Landmark Global Collaborative $75 Million Fund for Micro-Entrepreneurs
Business Wire, November 3, 2005

A group of leading institutional investors and development agencies -- including Deutsche Bank, USAID, Hewlett Packard, the British Department for International Development and France's Agence Francaise de Developpement -- announced the creation of the Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium ("Consortium"), a ground-breaking $75 million multi-tiered commercial fund that will provide local currency financing for up to five years to Micro Finance Institutions (MFI) globally.

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