Our philosophy
At TriLinc, we believe the alignment of meaningful financial return and positive social and economic impact mutually reinforces one another, and industry research has shown to support our position.
Studies, such as this, have found that many investment managers incorporate ESG factors as a way to enhance risk-adjusted returns and high ESG-rated companies exhibit market-based outperformance.
TriLinc employs a disciplined ESG screening process to assess a company's ESG policies and practices as a way to mitigate certain potential risks. TriLinc's impact tracking and reporting are designed to prove that capitalism can be used as a force for good.
Impact Performance Goals
- Aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
- Conform to the IFC Exclusion List
- Meet local and international laws and respective practices
- In compliance with local environmental, labor, health, safety and business laws
- Represent in writing their company’s ongoing commitment to ESG practices
- Environmental practices such as: energy savings, waste reduction and water conservation
- Social policies for fair hiring, compensation, maternity leave, community service and corporate donations
- Identify and track the GIIN’s IRIS metrics
Global Impact
Since 2013, we financed $1.02 billion in term loans and trade finance transactions to enterprises in 36 developing economies that resulted in supporting over 35,894 permanent jobs.
- $ 343.7 M in term loans and trade finance
- 23 enterprises
- 16,415 permanent jobs
- 9 developing economies
- $ 485.0 M in term loans and trade finance
- 46 enterprises
- 18,449 permanent jobs
- 21 developing economies
- $ 167.5 M in term loans and trade finance
- 10 enterprises
- 793 permanent jobs
- 4 developing economies
- $ 19.5 M in term loans
- 2 enterprises
- 237 permanent jobs
- 2 developing economies
Inception to 11/30/18. “Permanent Jobs” is based on the IRIS Metric of Permanent Employees. Global impact data does not include $104.7 million in short-term note investments. Short-term note investments are defined by TriLinc as investments that have a maturity of less than one year, to borrowers with whom TriLinc does not expect to re-lend. Impact data is not tracked for short-term note investments. TriLinc supports impactful trading operations, benefiting exports and/or imports into developing economies. For borrower companies that are located in developed markets, TriLinc provides trade financing transactions involving exports/imports for enterprises located in developing economies. The transactions involving these developing economy enterprises are included in the figures above.
2017 Sustainability and Impact Report
Alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goals

















