founded 2006 headquarters berlin germany key people thomas engelhardt chairman products equity finance management services total assets 1 billion network 2014 website 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 . 1 contents 1 overview 2 history 3 accessbank group 4 ownership 5 see also 6 external links 7 references overview edit accessholding is an investor and technical manager in a network of microfinance banks in developing and emerging countries . these banks specifically target their lending to micro small and medium sized enterprises in the countries that they serve . as of june 2014 update the company had eight microfinance banks in sub saharan africa central asia and the caucasus . at that time the group banks total assets were valued at approximately 1 billion with shareholders equity of about 170 million . 2 history edit the company was founded in august 2006 by lfs financial systems gmbh lfs . 3 lfs is a german business and financial consulting firm based in berlin . it has special expertise in developing and emerging markets . it serves as the manager and technical advisor to the company as well as to the banks in which accessholding invests . the company is registered as a joint stock company under german law ; with a paid up capital of 27.8 million . as of december 2013 update accessholding has created a total of eight microfinance banks in azerbaijan madagascar tanzania nigeria liberia tajikistan zambia and rwanda . 4 accessbank group edit the member banks of the accessbank group include the following 5 accessbank azerbaijan baku azerbaijan total assets us 597.4 million 2012 16.5 % shareholding 6 accessbank madagascar antananarivo madagascar total assets us 39.1 million 2012 55.2 % shareholding accessbank tanzania dar es salaam tanzania total assets us 55.3 million 2012 52.7 % shareholding ab microfinance bank nigeria lagos nigeria total assets us 42.2 million 2012 50.1 % shareholding accessbank liberia monrovia liberia total assets us 24.3 million 2012 55.6 % shareholding accessbank tajikistan dushanbe tajikistan total assets us 23.4 million 2012 63.4 % shareholding ab bank zambia lusaka zambia total assets us 8.3 million 2012 51.0 % shareholding ab bank rwanda kigali rwanda total assets us 5.54 million 2013 50.5 % shareholding ownership edit as of december 2013 update the company stock is privately owned by the following corporate entities 7 accessholding stock ownership rank name of owner percentage ownership 1 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 . see also edit development finance institution external links edit company overview at ifc.org website of accessholding references edit about accessholding audited december 2012 annual financial report accessholding was formed on 30 october 2006 history of accessholding members of the accessbank group shareholding in accessbank azerbaijan shareholding in accessholding retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title accessholding & oldid 719430129 categories companies based in berlindevelopment finance institutionsholding companies established in 2006hidden categories articles containing potentially dated statements from june 2014all articles containing potentially dated statementsarticles containing potentially dated statements from december 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 may 2016 at 17 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view