Gentera SAB de CV is a holding company, which engages in the provision of banking and related services through its subsidiary, Banco Compartamos SA. The company is headquartered in Benito Juarez, Mexico, D.F. and currently employs 27,800 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2010-12-24. Gentera’s main activities are: granting loans and credits to communal banks, community groups, low-income individuals; offering saving accounts, insurance policies, administration and human resources services, making payments of family remittance and granting operation with securities and other financial instruments. The firm operates in Mexico, the United States, Guatemala and Peru, through such subsidiaries as: Compartamos Banco, a micro-financing bank; Yastas, a network of affiliated merchants that provide payments and financial transactions, Pagos Intermex SA de CV, the payment of family remittances company and Aterna, an intermediary between the distribution channels and the insurance industry.
