www.finansol.org is a unique French portal allowing everyone to discover the French Social and Solidarity Finance systems. It provides in-depth and up-to-date information on the sector and can answer many of your questions.

This webpage enables our non French speaking partners to find out more about Social and Solidarity Financial systems and their French specificities through the presentation of the Finansol network. Links to similar European and international institutions will allow you to obtain more information on all the actions occurring within this field in your country.

Created in 1995, Finansol is a non-profit organization that provides a unique French network. Representing the French Social and Solidarity Finance sector, Finansol helps bring together the majority of the sector’s associates.

Finansol has 4 objectives :

- to develop public knowledge of solidarity finance systems and the practice of socially and solidarity orientated savings 

→ it stimulates citizens' interest by providing educational and informative tools about solidarity finance systems.

→  it incites and encourages savers to subscribe to social and solidarity funds by offering reliable and up-to-date information about the products and management.

→  the label Finansol is a reference tool which allows savers to distinguish social and solidarity funds from traditional financial products. The label assures the savers of transparency, ethics and the solidarity aspects of all the savings products. Moreover, it ensures the savers of the destination of their investments into social and solidarity products.

- to increase authority and governmental recognition, and to negotiate a higher legislative incentive frame for the sector

- to play an active role in the research and education of  social solidarity, as well as to strengthen the sector by reinforcing its place among the economy 

- to bring service to its members 

Finansol also aims to strengthen the European and international scale of Social and Solidarity Finance systems as a whole by strengthening the sector and reinforcing its recognition. For example, Finansol and a few of its European and international partners invented the construction of a "Global Solidarity Finance System" (GSFS).