Author: Wyndham Juneau

Triple Jump and PwC – on behalf of the Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF) Financing Local SMEs initiative – hosted the conference “Closing the SME Finance Gap: Empowering Young & Women Entrepreneurs in Frontier Markets” on October 1st at the Compagnietheater in Amsterdam. Following the release of the DGGF 5 year Impact Report earlier this … Continued

As the world’s most populous region, Asia counts the largest number of low-income households worldwide. At the same time, the continent is among the fastest growing regions in world. This creates an extremely dynamic environment where developments are moving at a high pace and millions of people have been lifted out of poverty. Asia has … Continued

In September 2019, Triple Jump became a signatory to the Operating Principles for Impact Management. Launched earlier this year by the International Finance Cooperation (IFC), the Principles are intended to be a framework for investors to design and implement their impact management systems, ensuring that impact considerations are integrated throughout the investment lifecycle. As the impact investing industry … Continued

In June of 2019 Triple Jump organized and hosted a meeting of the Green Inclusive Finance Expert Group of NpM, Platform for Inclusive Finance. The group, consisting of representatives of FMO, Oikocredit, Lendahand, Triodos, and Triple Jump, gathered to discuss our shared challenges and opportunities in the access-to-energy (A2E) sector. The working group was started … Continued

Through the DGGF Seed Capital & Business Development facility (SCBD), Triple Jump invested mezzanine capital in Rent to Own (RTO), which is a turn-key asset provider to rural entrepreneurs in Zambia. It provides a broad range of assets including solar irrigation systems, refrigeration solutions and flatbed trucks. In Zambia, over 70% of all enterprises operate in the … Continued

The world’s largest development organisation, BRAC, has transformed its microfinance operation in Uganda into a bank in an effort to broaden and deepen financial inclusion for hundreds of thousands of people. The NGO has diluted its 100% shareholding in BRAC Uganda Bank Limited, held through BRAC International Holdings BV, to meet regulatory requirements of transforming … Continued

At the beginning of this year Triple Jump, through the Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF), released their latest report “Scaling Access to Finance for Early-Stage Enterprises in Emerging Markets: Lessons from the Field” which focuses on the supply side of finance for one of the most underserved “missing middles” – the early-stage companies in frontier … Continued

On January 22nd and 23rd, Triple Jump attended the first ever edition of the Asia Financial Institutions Forum in Bangkok. As sponsors of the event, Triple Jump participated in two panel discussions. Senior Investment Officer Begaim Sadyrova spoke on the affordable housing panel where she highlighted the work Triple Jump has done with the Microbuild … Continued