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Director:
Eduardo Freyre Arana
Editorial Committee:
Alfredo Llosa Barber,
Grupo ACP Group Deputy Chairman.
Luis Ovalle Gates,
Grupo ACP General Manager.
Cecilia Cebreros Apaza,
Somos Empresa General Manager.
Ximena Palma García-Zapatero,
Institutional Relations Corporate Manager.
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Luis Felipe Derteano Marie
Chairman Grupo ACP
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Seldom in the life of our corporation have two so transcendental events taken place almost simultaneously. Events that will change the lives of millions. One of those magic moments in the history of Grupo ACP was the second week of August. While on Tuesday we signed the agreement to create Brazil’s first specialized microfinance bank with sister organization CEAPE Maranhao, on Thursday we started the operations of Latin America’s most modern M2 construction panels plant, built in association with partners Mutualista Pichincha from Ecuador and Italy’s Emmedue. [+] view more |
 | | | Grupo ACP and CEAPE Maranhao will create Brazil’s first specialized microfinance bank
Last August 10, Grupo ACP and CEAPE Maranhao—Brazil’s largest specialized microcredit institution—signed a consolidation agreement to establish Brazil’s first specialized microfinance bank. The bank will be headquartered in San Luis city, in Maranhao State, in Brazil’s northeast. [+] view more | Non-conventional building system plant opens
August 12, a plant designed to build “Emmedue-M2” construction panels was inaugurated. Emmedue is an innovative construction system that will provide an alternative to traditional brick and mortar. [+] view more |
Grupo ACP and Mibanco among Peru’s eighty largest companies Grupo ACP and Mibanco ranked among Peru’s largest 80 companies, said “Peru’s Top 500 companies,” published last July by “América Economía” magazine. [+] view more |
Grupo ACP launches portal for Peruvian entrepreneurs
Grupo ACP launched the first portal for Peruvian entrepreneurs. Tiggres.com seeks to provide tools for micro and small business owners to grow their businesses and recruit new customers using the Internet. [+] view more |
Grupo ACP and Mibanco attend Peru’s largest labor marketplace
Grupo ACP and Mibanco joined the fifth version of the “Xpo Laborum” labor marketplace, the most important of its type in Peru. The market place gathered over 5000 participants, mostly young professionals, executives and senior university students. [+] view more |
Grupo ACP hosts a seminar organized by Red Solidarios
Grupo ACP hosted the XI International Seminar “Living the Mission: The Only Success Strategy for Development Organizations“, organized by Red Solidarios, an association of private non-profit development organizations operating throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. [+] view more |
| | | Mibanco gets top score from specialized microfinance rating agency Mibanco received Planet Rating’s top “4+” rating, the highest score awarded by that agency to any organization in its entire history worldwide. Planet Rating is a microfinance rating agency. [+] view more | Mibanco gets US$ 45 million credit
In August, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) granted Mibanco a syndicated loan totaling US$ 36 million. The loan will be used to provide credits to microbusiness women owners, within the “Crecer Mi Negocio” (Grow my Business) program. This transaction is a milestone for both Mibanco and IDB, as it is the first syndicated loan the multilateral has awarded in Nuevos Soles, Peru’s local currency denomination. [+] view more |
| | | Protecta sponsors urban art gallery
Protecta, Grupo ACP’s insurance and annuities arm, sponsored the painting and decoration of the walls along the 100 and 200 blocks of Pedro Ruiz street, in Surquillo district, a southern Lima suburb. The themes of the wall paintings and decorations revolved around family love and respect. [+] view more | Protecta and Profinanzas launch new debtor life insurance
Protecta Insurance Company and Profinanzas Savings and Loans have launched the Profinanzas’s Debtor Life Insurance that will provide Profinanzas’ customers insurance for debt hired with the financial company in case of debtor death. [+] view more |
Protecta and BancoSol will enhance financial inclusion regionwide
Two proposals submitted by Protecta Compañía de Seguros from Peru and BancoSol from Bolivia won the “Technologies for Financial Inclusion” initiative supported by the Multilateral Investment Fund (FOMIN), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Andean Development Corporation (CAF). [+] view more |
| | | 25 thousand taxi drivers to benefit from life insurance
Secura—Grupo ACP’s insurance broker—partnered with La Positiva Vida and the PGN gasoline stations chain to set up a life, accident and health microinsurance program that will benefit over 25 thousand taxi drivers who are PGN clients. [+] view more | Secura rises among Peruvian insurance brokers
Secura joined the ranks of the fifteen best Peruvian insurance brokers, said the 2009 ranking prepared by Peru’s Superintendency of Banks, Insurance Companies and Pension Fund Managers (AFP). [+] view more |
Conecta ranks among Peru's main call centers
Conecta, Grupo ACP’s relational marketing arm, charged with providing collections, customer care and portfolio generation services, was ranked by Peru’s Association of Contact Centers (APECCO) as one of the nation’s major “call centers”. [+] view more |
| | | The Great Leap: success within the reach of women entrepreneurs
Aprenda, a leading company in training and education of business owners and entrepreneurs in Latin America, and Thunderbird School of Global Management, started “The Great Leap”, the first training program specifically targeting Peruvian women microbusiness entrepreneurs. [+] view more | Aprenda launches training program in Moquegua
Aprenda and Anglo American Quellaveco mining company launched their business training program called “Emprende Moquegua” in Moquegua city, in Peru’s southern tip. [+] view more |
Aprenda involved in Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives
Aprenda joined last June the “VII Marketplace for Corporate Social Responsibility Projects”, organized by Perú 2021 non-profit organization. It also took part in the international seminar on “Creating a Socially Responsible Culture”, organized jointly by Universidad de Antioquía (Colombia), Universidad de Puebla (Mexico) and Universidad de Lima (Peru). [+] view more |
Over 1000 Lima and Callao entrepreneurs to get business management training
Aprenda and Citibank Peru launched their joint “VI Training Program- Entrepreneurship for the Future,” that will enhance the business skills of some 1,350 entrepreneurs from Lima and Callao districts. The program will run through end-October and will comprise over 25 training talks. [+] view more |
| | | Somos Empresa sponsors successful entrepreneurs contest
Somos Empresa—Grupo ACP’s communications company—and steel maker Aceros Arequipa sponsored the “Successful Entrepreneurs of 2010” contest organized by CPN radio, the Peruvian Institute for Business Initiatives (IPAE) and Backus brewery. [+] view more | Somos Empresa creates entrepreneurs club
Somos Empresa has organized its “Only Entrepreneurs Club” (“Club Solo Emprendedores”), whose members will benefit from several discounts and preferred customer prices at a range of health, business and leisure establishments, and from accident insurance provided by Protecta Insurance Company. [+] view more |
| | | Three major credit lines granted to Forjadores Forjadores de Negocios—a rapidly growing company operating in Mexico’s microfinance market—received three major credit lines from microfinance investment organizations BlueOrchard Finance S.A., Microvest and Symbiotics. [+] view more | Forjadores de Negocios opens two new branches in Tlaxcala and Acayucan
Forjadores de Negocios opened two new branches in Mexico. The first one in Tlaxcala state, in the center east region of Mexico, and the second in Acayucan city, in southern Veracruz. [+] view more |
Forjadores workers trained on credit methodologies
Forjadores de Negocios, committed to the comprehensive development of its personnel, organized the “Institutional Training and Induction on Credit Methodologies” course in May at Aguascalientes, Matías Romero and Tlaxcala, three Mexican cities. [+] view more |
Deputy General Manager to chair RADIM
Julián Costábile, Emprenda’s Deputy General Manager, was chosen to chair the Argentinean Network of Microcredit Institutions (RADIM), a trade association focusing on institutional building of Argentina’s microcredit organizations. Emprenda is a Grupo ACP company. [+] view more |
SAC Apoyo Integral gets a loan from Spanish agency
In an unprecedented development in El Salvador’s microfinance history, SAC Apoyo Integral received a 4 million euro loan from the Spanish International Development Cooperation Agency (AECID), through the Official Credit Institute (ICO). [+] view more |
| | | Financiera El Comercio’s clients to access more cellular banking products
Financiera El Comercio, Paraguay’s microfinance market leader, launched its “Tigo Cash” product, jointly with Tigo mobile telephony company. The new product will allow the financial company’s clients to buy from a number of stores through a simple cellular money wire and to make deposits and withdrawals. [+] view more | Financiera El Comercio launches remittances insurance
Financiera El Comercio launched its “Life insurance for money wires” to increase the bank’s penetration among Paraguayan migrants abroad and their families in Paraguay.
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| New Human Resource Management at Forjadores. |
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| Forjadores recently appointed María Paola Salcedo González as its Human Resource Manager. |
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