IPES and BancoMía are joined to boost financial inclusion and strengthening of microentrepreneurs in Bogotá

He Institute for Social Economy (Ipes), from Bogotá, and BankingEntity of the Microfinance Foundation BBVAsigned a framework agreement with the aim of facilitating the Access of microentrepreneurs linked to IPES to a complete portfolio of financial and non -financial products and servicesthus contributing to the strengthening of their businesses, the financial inclusion and economic growth of the capital.

This agreement, which seeks to support the financinghe saving and the protection Through the supply of Banking products and services, as well as accompanying business formalization within the framework of the mission activities of the IPES, it is aimed at microentrepreneurs who exercise their activities in the Market District Placescommercial points and in other spaces administered by the IPES in different areas of Bogotá.

Thanks to this alliance, the microentrepreneurs benefited You can access credits Banking with preferential rates against segment rate to access working capital aimed at promoting their businesses.

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Likewise, the alliance entrepreneurs of this alliance will also have other products and services of the offer of financial and non -financial value of BANCAMÍA as disposal as Savings accounts, CDT (with opening from $ 50,000), Marketed insurance on your network by allied insurers to protect your productive units, means of payment to facilitate your transactions (such as QR code and the keys of the immediate BRE-B payment ecosystem once between operation), as well as Access to financial education programs that can provide tools to microentrepreneurs to strengthen their skills in the management of your finances, administrative management and digital knowledge that better accompany decision making against the objective of enhancing their businesses.

The agreement, which will have an initial validity of 12 months and that has potential to benefit merchants from 18 district marketsof 31 commercial points and Other IPES spaces In the capital, it contemplates the joint promotion of the benefits and the active presence of BancoMía on the IPES accompaniment routes, which will allow the financial services to be closer to the spaces where economic activities are developed.

On the importance of the agreement, Wilfredo Grajales Rosasdirector of Ipeshe said that “eThis agreement is a decisive step for the financial inclusion of our microentrepreneurs. We want those who work in the district markets and IPES spaces have access to tools that strengthen their businesses, improve their quality of life and allow them to grow formally and sustainablely. ”

For its part, Viviana Araque MendozaExecutive President of Bankinghighlighted the scope of this alliance by pointing out that “in Bancamía we are committed to the productive development of Bogotá microentrepreneurs and this agreement is the Materialization of this promise of access value to financing, savings and financial education In order for their businesses to grow more accelerated and responsible, which represents a model of real opportunities so that those who work in market places are part of the capital’s great trade, advance towards their real business strengthening. ”

In the future, this alliance projects sustained work so that the social economy continues to grow in Bogotá, promoting the access in preferential conditions to credit products Banking, as a key tool for microentrepreneurs to consolidate their businesses, generate employment and strengthen as fundamental actors of the city’s economic and social development.