{"id":7124,"date":"2022-07-04T10:33:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T10:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microfinancetmede.gr\/en\/?p=7124"},"modified":"2022-10-10T10:33:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T10:33:55","slug":"european-code-of-good-conduct-for-microcredit-provision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microfinancetmede.gr\/en\/2022\/07\/04\/european-code-of-good-conduct-for-microcredit-provision\/","title":{"rendered":"European Code of Good Conduct for Microcredit Provision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-paragraph\">The European microfinance sector has been consistently growing over the past decade. It is composed of a variety of players and business models, with diverging legal and institutional frameworks across Europe. As a consequence,\u00a0<strong>lending practices<\/strong>\u00a0in microfinance vary considerably depending on:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ecl-list\">\n<li>the type of institution providing microloans<\/li>\n<li>its legal setup<\/li>\n<li>the environment in which it operates<\/li>\n<li>and its own ability to apply sound and efficient management procedures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ecl-paragraph\">Given the diversity of the microfinance sector, the implementation of a voluntary\u00a0<a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/social\/main.jsp?catId=738&amp;langId=en&amp;pubId=8312&amp;furtherPubs=yes\">European Code of Good Conduct for Microcredit Provision<\/a>\u00a0is an important element to promote best practices within the sector. The Code is a self-regulation instrument developed in close consultation with key stakeholders. It serves as a quality label, upholding high ethical and responsible lending practices in the European microfinance sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-paragraph\">Signing up to or endorsing the Code is a pre-condition for accessing EU funding under the\u00a0<a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/social\/main.jsp?catId=1084&amp;langId=en#navItem-3\">EaSI financial instruments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/social\/main.jsp?catId=1482&amp;langId=en\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European microfinance sector has been consistently growing over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microfinancetmede.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microfinancetmede.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microfinancetmede.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microfinancetmede.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microfinancetmede.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microfinancetmede.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7126,"href":"https:\/\/microfinancetmede.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions\/7126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microfinancetmede.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microfinancetmede.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microfinancetmede.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microfinancetmede.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}