Carlos Danel

Carlos Danel is Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of Compartamos Banco, one of the largest microfinance institutions in Latin America.

Carlos Danel is Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of Compartamos Banco, one of the largest microfinance institutions in Latin America serving more than 2 million low-income microentrepreneurs (mostly women) with financial services based around working capital loans. Carlos is also an active thinker and investor in another base of the pyramid business approaches and is a General Partner at Ignia Partners LLC. He serves on the Board of Compartamos Banco, Vista Desarrollos, Grupo CP, and non-profit VIFAC A.C. Carlos is also the Co-Chair of the Mexico Gender Parity Task Force.

Posts by Carlos Danel

Moving Towards Savings and Lessons From the IPO Story Part 4

In this video series-4, Carlos Danel, Founder and Co-CEO of Compartamos Bank Mexico discusses the savings strategy of Compartamos and the lessons learnt from the IPO story. For savings, he says traditional model of brick and mortar branch didn’t work for the bank. So the bank focused on technology especially mobile banking to take advantage […]

Compartamos Leadership during Times of Crisis Part 3

In this video series-3, Carlos Danel, Founder and Co-CEO of Compartamos Bank Mexico discusses the impact of financial crisis on microfinance clients and the strategy Compartamos adopted to counter the crisis and continue its strong growth. Talking about the lessons learnt from the financial crisis, he says during the crisis the main concern was to […]

Compartamos Achievements Outreach and Financial Sustainability Part 2

In this video series-2, Carlos Danel, Founder and Co-CEO of Compartamos Bank Mexico speaks about the link between the growth story and the issue of pricing or the interest rate policy. Talking about the interest rate policy, Carlos says that the policy has remained the same before and after the IPO. He adds that the […]

Compartamos Achievements Outreach and Financial Sustainability Part 1

In this video series-1, Carlos Danel, Founder and Co-CEO of Compartamos Bank Mexico speaks about the factors that enabled them to become the regional industry leader and provide financial services to more than one million poor women in the rural areas. He also enlists the various products and services Compartamos provides to its customers.