Rolf Reichardt

AccessHolding is an active manager which invests in start-up and early-stage microfinance institutions worldwide, with an initial focus on building regional clusters of microfinance banks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia. The firm focuses on equity investments, taking controlling majority stakes of their investee MFIs as sole investor or co-investing with like-minded investors, including AccessHolding shareholders. AccessHolding seeks to tightly oversee and actively foster the development of their investee banks, forming the strategic node of the network banks while LFS Financial Systems provides management and consulting services. They exercise the central interface function by providing investee banks with support including product development, internal audit and control, information and knowledge management and refinancing. The firm provides flexible, task-specific assistance in areas which are typically underdeveloped in early-stage MFIs, allowing management to focus on day-to-day operations and building up the key functions which they require to sustain and drive medium and long-term growth.

Provides financial services to privately owned micro and small enterprises