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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.

FEATURED VIDEOS

Investing in Opportunities

Citi is aiming to invest in opportunities for 15 million low-income households, including 10M women, globally by 2025.

Rise

Citi finances work that helps expand access to basic services and drives economic inclusion.

Partnering with Konfio

Citi is proud to have provided financing to Konfio that supports financial inclusion in Mexico.

Providing Microfinance Loans to Women in Mexico

Working as One with Sun King

For over 10 years, Citi has supported Sun King’s mission of bringing energy to consumers across Africa and Asia who lack access to reliable electricity. Learn more about our latest collaboration to increase access to solar energy and scaling its positive impact on families, businesses and communities in Kenya.”

Bringing Solar Power to African Communities

Listen into Citi’s Good Things Happen podcast with Anish Thakkar, Co-Founder of Sun King, and Eugene Amusin, Head of Strategy & Client Solutions at Citi Social Finance, as they delve into the revolutionary power of renewable energy and their collaborative efforts towards a sustainable and inclusive future.”

CASE STUDIES

Expanding Access to Healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa

mPharma is working to expand access to healthcare across low-income communities in sub-Saharan Africa.

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.