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Funding management for lenders: share capital, borrowings & grants

22 Jun 2026·5 min read

Lending institutions fund their portfolios from several sources, each with different reporting and governance needs. Managing them in spreadsheets makes capital-adequacy and donor reporting painful and error-prone.

The four funding sources

  • Share capital — shareholder registration, contributions, certificates, capital-growth tracking
  • Borrowings — external loan agreements, interest tracking, repayment schedules
  • Grants — registration, utilization tracking and donor reporting
  • Operational funds — internal allocations, budgets and expenditure monitoring

One ledger, full visibility

When funding flows through the same double-entry ledger as lending, capital movements post automatically to the right control accounts — so balance sheets, equity statements and donor reports reconcile without manual effort.

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