Where financial returns meet social and environmental impact

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An Investors' Guide to Impact Investing - 5 Steps to Create a Positive Impact

This guide provides investors with the basic understanding and knowledge required to find the most suitable impact investment product.

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BlueOrchard Pioneer Talks

In a series of 12 conversations with industry experts, end clients, and investors, we take you on a journey of 20 years of impact investing

Watch the fifth episode: Building a career in impact investing

BlueOrchard is proud to launch its 20 years anniversary book “This is My Story”

How can impact investing serve society’s most vulnerable? Meet 12 inspiring people who put a small amount of money to work in a big way.

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BlueOrchard Covid-19 Emerging and Frontier Markets MSME Support Fund

BlueOrchard announces the launch of a Covid-19 support fund that aims to support more than 200 million jobs in emerging and frontier markets

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BlueOrchard Microfinance Fund

Our flagship fund

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Financial Inclusion

Investing in inclusive growth and shared prosperity

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Education

Bridging the education gap in emerging countries and fostering growth

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Climate

Building the resilience of the poor to the threats of climate change

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Micro-entrepreneurs supported

Every 2 seconds BlueOrchard supports its investees to disburse a loan to a micro-entrepreneur.

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Ending Global Poverty

8% of the world population still lives on less than $1.90 a day, but progress is being made in the fight to end extreme poverty and achieve SDG1. Every 0.8 seconds, a person escapes poverty

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  • USD 8bn invested
  • Pioneering impact investing since 2001

among the micro-entrepreneurs served by our institutions
German book

Small Money – Big Impact

Drawing on BlueOrchard’s unique expertise, this book explains how microfinance works and why. It illustrates through the experience of individuals, facts and figures the worldwide impact of microfinance.

English book

German version now available here.

Now also available 
in English here.

Our clients
Our clients

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  • Investments in over 90 emerging markets
  • Over 562 Institutions financed

Our Global Impact

Founded in 2001, BlueOrchard has invested USD 8 billion in over 90 emerging and frontier markets across Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa. Our vision is to foster financial inclusion and shared prosperity worldwide.


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Careers

The environment at BlueOrchard offers unique opportunities to grow professionally and personally.

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Our clients

We empower micro-entrepreneurs around the world.

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Our Expertise

As a leading impact investor, BlueOrchard has acquired unparalleled and specialized expertise

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