● practice● Scaled
Compartamos Banco - group lending (Crédito Mujer)
Scale
local
subnational
national
systemic
Description
Mexico's largest microfinance institution, born in 1990 as the NGO Asociación Programa Compartamos I.A.P. to provide microloans to women from low-income sectors. Its flagship product is group lending with joint liability (groups of 5 to 50 people, mostly women). More than 60% of the portfolio is group credit and in 2025 it is targeting 3.2 million active clients. It was the subject of an RCT that randomly expanded branches across 110 communities.