Mercy Corps is an international not-for-profit organization that exists to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities. Mercy Corps has a presence in 36 countries and reaches 19 million people.

Mercy Corps has a decade of experience providing financial services to underserved people. They have created standalone start-up banks and commercialized financial institutions which have lent more than $1.4 billion to people in countries recovering from war, disaster or painful economic upheaval. Mercy Corps-sponsored microfinance institutions, savings and credit cooperatives, loan-guarantee programs, and technical support reach more than one million people in over a dozen countries.