The ProCredit Holding is the

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of a development-oriented group of commercial banks for small and medium enterprises ( SMEs), which operate in

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Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

, and

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. The business model of the group is based on "socially responsible banking". The group’s core business consists of offering banking services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). An emphasis is placed on expanding the group's green loan portfolio and promoting local production, especially in

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

. In addition to serving SMEs, the ProCredit group also pursues a direct banking strategy for private clients, particularly the growing middle class. ProCredit Holding, which began as Internationale Micro Investitionen AG, was founded in 1998 and in 2025 was managed by Hubert Spechtenhauser, Eriola Bibolli, Dr Gian Marco Felice and Christian Dagrosa. The company has a Fitch Rating of BBB. As the group is a superordinated institution, it is regulated by the German and

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. According to the group's annual report for 2020, the total assets of the ProCredit group amounted to approximately EUR 7.3 billion. It holds customer deposits of about EUR 4.9 billion and has a gross loan portfolio of around EUR 5.3 billion. The promotion of green loans to finance projects in the fields of

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and

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(Pillar III) is the strategic focus here. In 2020, approximately 40% of the group's total loan portfolio growth was in green loans.

ProCredit Holding banks

A full list of the banks in the ProCredit group can be found in the following table.

Shareholders

The following

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s held more than 5% of the

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in ProCredit Holding as of 30 June 2023, thus representing the main shareholders:Shareholder structure - PCH (EN) (procredit-holding.com)
(Retrieved 30 June 2023) * Zeitinger Invest GmbH (18.3%) *

KfW The KfW, which together with its subsidiaries DEG, KfW IPEX-Bank and FuB forms the KfW Bankengruppe ("banking group"), is a German state-owned investment and development bank, based in Frankfurt. As of 2014, it is the world's largest national ...

(13.2%) * The Dutch DOEN Participaties (12.5%) *

EBRD The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, shortened to EBRD ( French: ''Banque européenne pour la reconstruction et le développement'' or ''BERD''), is an international financial institution founded in 1991 in Paris. As a multilat ...

(8,7%) *

TIAA The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA, formerly TIAA-CREF) is an American financial services organization that is a private provider of financial retirement services in the academic, resea ...

(8.6%)

References

External links

Procredit Holding website
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