PEACE MFI

What PEACE MFI does

PEACE MFI is a for-profit, privately held microfinance institution (MFI) headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Founded in 1999, it engages in the delivery of both savings and loan services — the standard dual mandate of a deposit-taking MFI operating under the regulatory framework administered by the National Bank of Ethiopia. The institution serves micro-borrowers and small depositors in Ethiopia's largely unbanked population, a segment historically served by licensed MFIs rather than commercial banks. No customer segments beyond this generic microfinance base, and no named end-users, partner organizations, or anchor clients, are disclosed in available sources.

The company's stated product surface is limited to savings and credit, with no disclosed proprietary technology platform, mobile application, agent banking network, core banking system, or digital channel. The company website at peacemfi.com currently resolves to a Cloudflare-style loading/verification interstitial that yields no substantive content — no product pages, no pricing, no branch locator, no financial reports, and no team information. This suggests either a web-presence outage, an active bot-mitigation challenge, or a decommissioned site, and means the company's publicly observable footprint is effectively nil.

The firmographic record also raises internal consistency concerns. A 25–26-year-old licensed MFI would, in Ethiopia's sector, typically operate a multi-branch network with a workforce well in excess of 1–10 employees; leading domestic MFIs employ thousands. The reported 1–10 headcount is therefore either a stale artifact, a placeholder, or evidence of material contraction, dormancy, or a holding/shell structure. No funding rounds, investors, board, management team, regulatory filings, partnerships, branch network, or financial disclosures are retrievable from the available data, leaving the operating status, scale, and strategic trajectory of the entity materially under-determined.

Name

PEACE MFI

Website

https://peacemfi.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

PEACE MFI is a privately held Ethiopian microfinance institution, founded in 1999 in Addis Ababa, that provides savings and loan services to micro-borrowers and small depositors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Microfinance

NAICS

Savings Institutions and Other Depository Credit Intermediation (522180), Credit Unions (52213)

SIC

Finance Services (6199)

akta.pro primary industry

Microfinance, Financial Inclusion & Inclusive Markets (BPAGABAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Agricultural & Rural Microfinance (FSAKAGAG)

Keywords

• Microfinance services
• Savings products
• Micro lending
• Financial inclusion
• Consumer lending

Headquarters

HQ city

Addis Ababa

HQ country

Ethiopia

HQ region

Africa

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

PEACE MFI is a microfinance institution that delivers savings and loan services to customers. Operating from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the company provides basic financial intermediation — collecting deposits/savings and disbursing loans — to individuals and small borrowers who require access to formal financial services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Savings Services
• Loan Services

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Amhara Credit and Saving Institution (ACSI): Ethiopian microfinance institution offering savings and loans, historically one of the largest by members and branches. Directly comparable for-product (savings + lending) and same Ethiopian market.
• Oromia Credit and Saving Enterprise (OCSE): Ethiopian regional microfinance institution delivering savings and loan products to individuals and small businesses. Same geography, same dual-product microfinance mandate, and similar member base profile.
• Somali Microfinance Institution (SMFI): Ethiopian regional MFI operating in the Somali region with savings and microloan offerings to pastoralist and small-trader clients. Comparable product set and mission profile within the same regulatory environment.
• Dedebit Credit and Saving Institution: Tigray-region Ethiopian microfinance institution providing savings and credit services to rural and urban micro-entrepreneurs. Directly comparable dual-product microfinance model in the same country.
• Meklit Microfinance: Addis Ababa-based Ethiopian MFI focused on micro-enterprise and women's economic empowerment savings-and-loan products. Same city of operation and overlapping customer segments.

Emerging players

• Kiva: Global digital crowdfunding platform for microloans, including Ethiopian MFI partners. Relevant as an alternate funding/distribution channel that a small MFI like PEACE could partner with rather than scale balance sheet independently.
• BRAC International: Global microfinance and small-enterprise lender with African operations. Comparable mission, micro-savings and microloan products, and rural/underserved customer focus relevant to PEACE's likely market.

Broad incumbents

• Equity Bank Kenya: East African commercial bank that scaled out of a microfinance foundation and now offers full banking. Useful comparable for how a microfinance-rooted Ethiopian operator could evolve if it successfully scaled.
• Awash International Bank: One of Ethiopia's largest private commercial banks with full retail deposit, lending, and corporate-banking services. Competes for the same Addis Ababa SME and salaried-customer segment that PEACE MFI targets.
• Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE): Ethiopia's dominant state-owned commercial bank, offering nationwide deposit and lending products. Serves as the dominant incumbent whose overbanked/underbanked split defines the addressable opportunity for smaller MFIs like PEACE.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/peace-microfinance-sc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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