Created in 1995, Finansol is a central participant in solidarity-based funding in France, its aim being to promote solidarity in finance and savings. As a collective of solidarity-based funding professionals, it now brings together more than 90 solidarity-based funders and companies, as well as banks, management companies and mutual insurance companies. Finansol is also a label which, since 1997, distinguishes solidarity-based savings investments (to date there are nearly 160 Finansol-labelled investments). Awarded by a committee of independent experts, it guarantees savers that they are making a real contribution to the funding of activities that generate social and environmental benefits.