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Finnfund head offices in Helsinki. Photo: Google Earth/Streetview

About Finnfund

Finnfund (Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation Ltd.) is a Finnish development finance company. It provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries to promote economic and social devleopment. Funding can be in the form of equity capital, mezzanine financing or long-term investment loans: always with a minority stake. Most of its finances are in manufacturing, but it also in sectors such as agribusiness, power generation, services and telecommunications. 

Website http://www.finnfund.fi/
Headquarters
Uudenmaankatu 16B
FI-00121 Helsinki
Finland
CEO/chair Jaakko Kangasniemi
CEO
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Annual reports Annual Report 2014
Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2014
Ownership

Finnfund is owned by the State of Finland (93.4%), Finnvera (6.5%) and Confederation of Finnish Industries EK (0.1%). 

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Berta Cáceres: new rules for banks could help stop defender killings

2023-01-23 | Global Witness
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Hydroelectric Project Opposed by Berta Caceres Suspended

2017-07-10 | Tegucigalpa | Prensa Latina
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Controversial hydropower project that led to murder of land defender Berta Cáceres halted as funders forced to pull out

2017-07-07 | Global Witness
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COPINH communicates that FMO and Finn Fund have confirmed their official exit from the murderous Agua Zarca Project

2017-07-06 | Honduras | COPINH
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Backers of Honduran dam opposed by murdered activist withdraw funding

International investors withdraw completely from Agua Zarca project
2017-06-04 | The Guardian
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Civil society response on announcement European financiers to ‘seek to exit’ Agua Zarca project

2016-05-11 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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FMO and Finnfund suspend support for Agua Zarca Dam

Civil society groups demand permanent withdrawal from project
2016-03-16 | San Fransisco, the Hague | International Rivers

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2018-11-15 00:00:00

Letter from Meri Mononen-Matias and the Indigenous People and the Earth, Finland to Finnfund on Draft Human Rights Statement

2018-11-15 00:00:00 | Meri Mononen-Matias and the Indigenous People and the Earth, Finland
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2017-01-31 00:00:00

Honduras: The deadliest place to defend the planet

2017-01-31 00:00:00 | Global Witness
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FMO and Finnfund seek to exit Agua Zarca

Dutch development bank FMO and Finnish finance company Finnfund announced on May 9th that they would "seek to exit" financing the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project in Honduras. They took the decision after a court in Honduras decided on May 8th to press charges against four individuals in connection…
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