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Maximizing Social Impact with Our Clients
Building on our longstanding history of driving positive social impact in underserved communities around the world, we're supporting a range of activities that help advance sustainable development in the communities that need it most.
Our Commitment
To help reach our $1 trillion commitment to sustainable finance by 2030, we’ve expanded the scope of our social finance efforts to reach more communities around the world. As the world‘s most global bank, we’re helping to advance financial inclusion, increase access to basic services, boost job creation and scale social infrastructure.
Over half of our global footprint is rooted in emerging markets. Our Social Finance specialist team works with Citi bankers on the ground who understand the local dynamics well and partner with us to develop and deliver innovative solutions.
Jorge Rubio
Global Head, Citi Social Finance
Citi Social Finance
Building on our 15-year Track Record
For 15 years, we’ve leveraged market-based approaches to develop new business models and partnerships to improve the livelihood of others. Through our social finance work, we’re making a real impact on low-income communities around the world.
CASE STUDIES
Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Mexico
Citi supported and empowered more than 135,000 small businesses in Mexico, approximately 90% of them women-owned.
Enhancing Food Security for Smallholder Farmers
The nonprofit One Acre Fund supplies smallholder farmers with everything they need to grow more food and earn more money, with the primary goal of enhancing food security.
Expanding Access to Loans in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh in 2021, Citi was the sole arranger of $68 million in equivalent local currency, which is expected to give 85,000 people — 80% of them women — access to finance.
Improving Livelihoods through Clean Energy Solutions
In 2019, Citi provided a $5 million working capital loan in local currency to enable d.light to provide clean energy solutions that improve livelihoods in Kenya.