Investment Capital Flows, Mexican Economics and Electronic Loan Exchange Project

Private capital flows to emerging markets continue at high levels, but concerns are growing about their sustainability. Direct equity investment slows down, as well as lending by bond investors and private creditors. The potentially global impact of a US economy slowdown, global financial imbalances and geopolitical tensions present motives for cautiousness. Situation in Mexico, the world’s ninth largest economy, seems favorable, but confirms written above. Mexico’s FDI rises, but slow down is expected: and with more than 40% of the population living below official poverty line, the inequality continues rampant. Fortunately, there are innovations unseen ever before promising ways how to tackle the lack of investment. Electronic Loan Exchange Network, ELEN Project in development between group of Czech elite bankers, IT specialists and FIPS, prime Mexican microfinance institution. Goal of this ambitious endeavor is to enable tens of millions of small European and US investors to lend for attractive interest rate to poor micro-borrowers in marginalized regions on a massive scale, thus creating an alternative for savings accounts and stock market investments.