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The Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (SIFEM) continues to play a counter-cyclical role in promoting growth and job creation in a region…

The Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (SIFEM) has committed USD 8 million to the Central American Small Enterprise Investment Fund (CASEIF)…

The latest SIFEM Impact Report gives an overview of the institution’s investment activity and the composition of its portfolio. In the context of this…

SIFEM was among the first adopters of the Operating Principles for Impact Management which were developed by the International Finance Corporation…

SIFEM AG (Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets) is the Development Finance Institution (DFI) of the Swiss Confederation and is therefore an…

Eleven members of EDFI, the Association of European Development Finance Institutions – of which SIFEM is a member – are partnering with the European…

The Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (SIFEM) has committed USD 10m to Locfund Next. Locfund Next is an open-ended fund with the aim to…

The collapse of the Soviet Union, civil unrest, a military conflict, an inflation rate which peaked at 50 percent, and a global pandemic: businesses…

SIFEM and various other Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), including CDC, DEG, FMO, Proparco, SwedFund, and FinDev, have signed a Memorandum of…

The Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (SIFEM) has provided a USD 8 million loan in local currency to the Pact Global Microfinance Fund…