Presentation

Horus Development Finance (formerly Horus Banque et Finance) is specialised in institutional studies, operational and financial audits, strategic studies, MIS description and implementation, as well as in support to training for financial and banking companies. Its specificity lies in an approach and a reasoning finding roots in company managing practice, together with a very good on-the-field knowledge of microfinance.

Horus Development Finance works with different types of institutions and enterprises, in France and elsewhere :

Banks
Governments (microfinance institution supervision units, central banks, etc)
Non-Government Organisations
MicroFinance Institutions
International donors

Horus Development Finance can intervene at different levels in the microfinance sector, and at different stages in the development of microfinance institutions (MFIs). The main areas of intervention are:

Strategic and institutional studies in the banking and financial sectors : regulatory aspects of the profession
Evaluation of MFIs and network banks
Advisory functions in the areas of organisation, management, management information systems (MIS) and back-up in management procedures
Shareholding and investment in MFIs by way of its investment subsidiaries, Advans SA and La Fayette Participations.