The Social & Sustainable Finance Chair of the Montpellier Business School was created in October 2020 as an extension of the Microfinance in Developed Countries Chair, established two years before with Créa-Sol and the Caisse d’Epargne Languedoc Roussillon. The chairholders, Dr. Anastasia Cozarenco and Dr. Thi Hong Van Hoang, have the objective to promote social finance, in particular microfinance and social banking, and sustainable finance. To serve this objective, the activities of the chair are structured around three main types of activities: teaching, research, and events.

Singlify is a UK based social enterprise fintech based in London, UK. It is Singlify’s mission to enable microfinance institutions to serve their customers in a better, faster and more efficient way. Singlify provides an end-to-end technology platform built on the Salesforce platform specifically tailored to the microfinance sector.

Singlify is an end-to-end loan management system for social investors and micro-finance organisations. They have built a customer base of currently 14 customers in the UK and Europe and are rapidly expanding to new microfinance customers. Singlify currently serves a number of EMN members such as microStart (Belgium) and Action Finance Initiative (Greece). They also have a strategic partnership agreement with Qredits (Netherlands).