What our initial study did contemplate, however, was that support measures need to be flexible to fulfill the markets’ needs. A wide spectrum of financial intermediaries, active in microfinance in the EU (microfinance institutions, “MFIs”), has been developing, and the product range offered to them has to be sufficiently wide in order to meet their diverse needs and to enable them to provide efficient support to the final beneficiaries. Now, the roll-out of Progress Microfinance is well under way since end of 2010. Progress Microfinance, jointly funded by the European Commission and the EIB aims at promoting microfinance in.
