Mashreq Bank, established in 1967, one of the leading financial institution in the UAE and a significant player in the GCC with experience operating in both the gulf and international markets. Mashreq has over 16 overseas offices in 13 countries, with corporate banking businesses in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and India, as well as corporate and retail banking in Egypt and foreign exchange businesses in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal.The bank offers services that range from personal banking, investment banking, asset management and insurance services. Additionally, Mashreq provides conventional and Islamic personal and investment banking and asset management services.Further, Mashreq has extensive experience operating in trade finance alongside its robust trade portfolio in emerging markets. More specifically, the bank’s existing trade portfolio in Africa covers larger countries such as Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana and the bank has been expanding its footprint into smaller countries such as Tanzania, Togo, Cote D’Ivoe, Senegal and Cameroon.

Website:

https://www.mashreq.com/en/uae/neo/

MaxAB is re-engineering the retail market using proprietary technologies, innovative supply chains, and embedded finance solutions designed to empower both retailers and suppliers across Egypt, Morocco and beyond.

Website:

https://www.maxab.io/

MedAccess is an innovative social finance company committed to expanding and accelerating access to life-saving medicines, vaccines and diagnostics in Africa and South Asia.

The company launched in 2017, with a huge amount of support and input from DFID (which had the initial idea to create the company), the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF).

Website:

https://medaccess.org/

Medical Credit Fund II was launched in 2009 by PharmAccess (“PA”), a Dutch NGO, with the mission to provide credit to the private healthcare
sector in Africa to increase and improve their quality, scale, efficiency, and
ability to serve a wide range of patients.

Website:

https://www.medicalcreditfund.org/

In partnership with Gul Ahmed Metro Group we have formed the Metro-BII Renewables joint venture to develop and operate up to 500MW of renewable energy assets in Pakistan. Through the joint venture, British International Investment will acquire a significant minority stake in Metro Wind Power Limited, an under-construction 60MW windfarm project, developed by Gul Ahmed Metro Group.

Website:

https://metro-power.com/wind-power/

BII first invested in Microvest pre-2012. In 2018 we converted our equity into debt which was repaid in 2021.

Mintoak provides a digital payments platform for MSME retail merchants. It does this by working with banking partners to deploy and scale value-added services (payments, lending, engagement) to their MSME customers.

Website:

https://www.mintoak.com/

Miro Forestry is a sustainable forestry company with plantations in rural Sierra Leone and Ghana, producing plywood and other value-added wood products.

Website:

http://www.miroforestry.com/

MoneyFellows is a group lending and savings platform in Egypt, which has has digitised the concept of ‘money circles’. Its mobile-based platform has made it more scalable, safe, and efficient.

Website:

https://moneyfellows.com/#

Moniepoint is a financial technology company. It provides an all-in-one payments, banking and operations platform for businesses in Nigeria. Fund invested $15m.

Website:

https://moniepoint.com/

Moove is a mobility fintech democratising access to vehicle ownership in Africa.

Website:

https://www.moove.io/

mPharma is a tech-enabled healthcare company developing a more-efficient supply chain for pharmaceutical products across Africa.

Website:

https://mpharma.com/

Rift Valley Energy (RVE) is a rural renewable energy infrastructure platform, which develops, finances, owns and operates renewable energy generation assets and a rural power distribution network in Southern Tanzania.

Website:

https://www.riftvalleyenergy.com/

420 MW hydro power project in Cameron. Project shareholders are EDF (40%), IFC (20%), the Republic of Cameroon (15%), Africa 50 (15%) and STOA (10%)

Website:

https://www.nhpc.cm/en/home/

Naledi is the entity through which the shareholders of Agristar Holdings own their share in Global Macadamias Marketing, a leading marketing company for macadamia nuts.

Website:

https://agristargroup.co.za/

Namdev is a financial lender for families and micro, small and medium-sized businesses in rural and semi-urban markets. It offers products for those at the bottom of the financial pyramid.

Website:

https://www.namfin.in/

Narayana Health is India’s largest affordable healthcare chain, operating a range of multi-speciality hospitals across the country.

Since its first facility was established in Bengaluru with 225 operational beds, it has grown to 24 hospitals, seven heart centres and a network of primary care facilities across India with a total of over 6,000 beds.

The company has been consistently held up as an innovator in affordable health models, particularly its ‘assembly line’ approach to achieve low-cost at scale. Its founder, Dr Devi Shetty has been described as the ‘Henry Ford of medicine’.

Website:

https://www.narayanahealth.org/

BII has committed to providing financing for the construction of a landmark hydro-electric plant in central Nepal, Upper Trishuli-1.

Website:

https://nwedcpl.com/

NewGlobe Schools Inc is a chain of nursery and primary schools delivering high-quality education for just $5 a month (on average).

Website:

http://www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com/

NMB Bank Limited is a registered commercial bank and the principal subsidiary of NMBZ, established in October 1992. The bank is wholly owned by NMBZ Holdings Limited (NMBZ) – a Zimbabwe based investment holding company involved in Banking, Microfinance, Real Estate, Customised Technology Services and Bancassurance. The holding company is listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.

Website:

https://www.nmbz.co.zw/