{{Infobox company | name = AccessHolding| logo =| type = Joint Stock Company| company_slogan = | foundation = 2006| location = Berlin, Germany| key_people = '''Thomas Engelhardt'''<br />Chairman| num_employees = | assets = €1 billion (*network 2014)| revenue = | industry = Development Finance| products = Equity Finance<br />Management Services | homepage = [http://www.accessholding.com/index.html Homepage] }}
'''Access Microfinance Holding AG''', often referred to as '''AccessHolding''', is a commercial microfinance investment and holding company based in Germany. AccessHolding specializes in start-ups and early-stage microfinance institutions (MFIs). It will establish new MFIs together with other partners, and transform existing non-bank microlending institutions into full-service microfinance banks.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mixmarket.org/funders/accessholding |title=About AccessHolding |access-date=2013-10-17 |archive-date=2014-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115014108/http://www.mixmarket.org/funders/accessholding |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Overview== AccessHolding is an investor and technical manager in a network of microfinance banks in developing and emerging countries. In 2012, the group banks' total assets were valued at approximately €1 billion, with shareholders' equity of about €170 million.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.accessholding.com/Resources_Publications/Annual_Reports.html |title=Audited December 2012 Annual Financial Report |access-date=2013-10-16 |archive-date=2013-10-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021163014/http://www.accessholding.com/Resources_Publications/Annual_Reports.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==History== The company was founded in August 2006 by LFS Financial Systems GmbH (LFS).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.microcapitalmonitor.com/cblog/index.php?%2Farchives%2F448-European-Microfinance-Company-Access-Holding-AG-Announces-Intent-to-Go-the-ProCredit-Way.-Various-Development-Banks-and-Omidyar-Tufts-Microfinance-Fund-Purchase-Equity-in-the-Newly-Founded-Company..html |title=AccessHolding Was Formed On 30 October 2006 |access-date=16 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220810/http://www.microcapitalmonitor.com/cblog/index.php?%2Farchives%2F448-European-Microfinance-Company-Access-Holding-AG-Announces-Intent-to-Go-the-ProCredit-Way.-Various-Development-Banks-and-Omidyar-Tufts-Microfinance-Fund-Purchase-Equity-in-the-Newly-Founded-Company..html |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> LFS is a German business and financial consulting firm based in Berlin. It has special expertise in developing and emerging markets.
==AccessBank Group== The member banks of the AccessBank Group include the following:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.accessholding.com/Our_Network/ |title=Members of the AccessBank Group |access-date=2013-10-16 |archive-date=2013-10-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021171428/http://www.accessholding.com/Our_Network/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
# AccessBank Azerbaijan - Baku, Azerbaijan {{flagicon|Azerbaijan}} - Total Assets:US$597.4 million (2012) (16.5% shareholding)<ref>[http://www.accessbank.az/en/news/increases-share/ Shareholding In AccessBank Azerbaijan]</ref> # [http://www.accessholding.com/Our_Network/ABM/ AccessBank Madagascar] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021171424/http://www.accessholding.com/Our_Network/ABM/ |date=2013-10-21 }} - Antananarivo, Madagascar {{flagicon|Madagascar}} - Total Assets:US$39.1 million (2012) (55.2% shareholding) # AccessBank Tanzania - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania {{flagicon|Tanzania}} - Total Assets:US$55.3 million (2012) (52.7% shareholding) # [http://www.accessholding.com/Our_Network/ABN/ AB Microfinance Bank Nigeria]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} - Lagos, Nigeria {{flagicon|Nigeria}} - Total Assets:US$42.2 million (2012) (50.1% shareholding) # AccessBank Liberia - Monrovia, Liberia {{flagicon|Liberia}} - Total Assets:US$24.3 million (2012) (55.6% shareholding) # AccessBank Tajikistan - Dushanbe, Tajikistan {{flagicon|Tajikistan}} - Total Assets:US$23.4 million (2012) (63.4% shareholding) # [http://www.accessholding.com/Our_Network/ABZ/ AB Bank Zambia] - Lusaka, Zambia {{flagicon|Zambia}} - Total Assets:US$8.3 million (2012) (51.0% shareholding) # AB Bank Rwanda - Kigali, Rwanda {{flagicon|Rwanda}} - Total Assets:US$5.54 million (2013) (50.5% shareholding)
==Ownership== {{asof|December 2013}}, the company stock is privately owned by the following corporate entities:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.accessholding.com/About_Us/Shareholders1/ |title=Shareholding In AccessHolding |access-date=2013-10-16 |archive-date=2013-10-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021163309/http://www.accessholding.com/About_Us/Shareholders1/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
{| style="font-size:100%;" |- | width="100%" align="center" | '''AccessHolding Stock Ownership''' |- valign="top" | {| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" ! style="width:2em;" |Rank !!Name of Owner!!Percentage Ownership |- |1||[https://web.archive.org/web/20131002024816/http://www.lfs-consulting.de/About_Us/ LFS Financial Systems GmbH] of Germany||18.63 |- |2||CDC Group Plc. of United Kingdom||13.74 |- |3||European Investment Bank||13.74 |- |4||International Finance Corporation (IFC)||13.74 |- |5||KfW Development Bank of Germany||13.74 |- |6||The Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund (OTMF)||13.74 |- |7||FMO of the Netherlands||9.75 |- |8||MicroAssets GbR of Germany||2.93 |- | ||'''Total'''||'''100.00''' |- |} |} * '''MicroAssets GbR''' is the employee investment company owned by the staff of '''LFS Financial Systems GmbH'''.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}
==See also== * Development finance institution
==External links== * [http://ifcext.ifc.org/ifcext/spiwebsite1.nsf/ProjectDisplay/SPI_DP24633 Company Overview At IFC.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021041729/http://ifcext.ifc.org/ifcext/spiwebsite1.nsf/ProjectDisplay/SPI_DP24633 |date=2013-10-21 }} * [http://www.accessholding.com/ Website of AccessHolding]
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Category:Companies based in Berlin Category:Development finance institutions Category:Holding companies established in 2006