Underpinned by government guarantees and regulation, French banks provide significant support for microfinance providers in the form of loans, equity, subsidies and staff secondments. In this episode, I am joined by Laure Coussirat Coustere, from leading French microfinance provider Adie, and Alexandre Nayme, from major microfinance investor BNP Paribas, to dissect the scale, impact and drivers of this support and what we can implement in a UK context.