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GABV Annual Meeting, hosted by BRAC Bank 2022
Engaging with values-based frontrunners
In the spring of 2009, 10 CEOs from values-based banks met in Zeist, a small town in the Netherlands, to try to change the world. Ever since, the GABV Annual Meeting has become the key moment for the Banking on Values movement. Hosted by a member bank, it has created a genuinely unique moment of exchange, inspiration and revitalization.
The GABV's 14th Annual Meeting will take place from 8 - 10 March 2022. The meeting will be hosted by BRAC Bank (Bangladesh) and will focus on the Asia Pacific region.
The GABV Annual Meeting is not only a place for thought-provoking discussions but it’s also a learning hub. Members are encouraged to share their customer stories and the host bank organises visits and presentations, marketplace or exhibits with their customers. More than just a showcase, this experience with the customers allows the participants to connect first-hand with real impact across a variety of sectors.
Why participate in the GABV's Annual Meeting?
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“When I network with CEOs from other values-based banks and like-minded organisations from across the globe, one learns so much more and one is able to bring best practices to its own environment.” Selim Hussain, CEO BRAC Bank, Bangladesh
“GABV gives us access to peers, best practices and support for banking on values against the conventional model of financial first and only considerations.” Kat Taylor, Co-founder Beneficial State Bank, USA
How to register?
Registrations will open toward the end of January 2022.
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Risk Management Community of Practice (CoP) - 2022 Meeting. From Judgment to Scorecard – Key First Steps
The Risk Management Community of Practice (CoP) is a Member-Only event and it aims to bring together professionals and risk management experts from member institutions of the SME Finance Forum to share their learning, experiences, and good practices examples with their peers. The scale and complexity of financial institutions and the pace of their financial transactions demand that they employ sophisticated risk management techniques and monitor rapidly changing risk exposures. At the same time, advances in IT innovation and solutions have lowered the cost of acquiring, managing and analyzing data, and have enabled considerable and ongoing advances in risk management at leading institutions. Financial institutions in emerging market countries are also increasing their focus on risk management in order to build more robust and sound financial systems, to remedy weaknesses that were exposed by the recent crisis.
The CoP collaborates through
• On-going email and LinkedIn group (this will be a closed member only group) exchanges among CoP members;
• A series of virtual meetings (WebEx) among members of CoP;
• Sharing and discussing specific case studies shared by both members and non-members;
• Exchanging relevant studies, articles and other publications on the topics;
• Where possible, participate in study visits to “good practice” institutions to learn from first hand experiences.
Who should participate in the CoP
• Senior executives working on or responsible for risk management or relevant areas from member institutions of the SME Finance Forum
Upcoming CoP Meeting
From Judgment to Scorecard – Key First Steps!
Effective credit risk management requires financial institutions to evaluate the characteristics of both the borrower and the loan to understand the probability of default and to calculate the expected loss. Characteristics of the borrower could include character, capacity, capital, while loan characteristics could factor in conditions and collateral among others. These data points are ultimately the key inputs to the overall credit assessment and credit classification. Credit classification can take many forms and evolve with the capacity of the financial institution, ranging from pure judgment, a “template” of guidelines, scorecard to a pure model. In our next meeting, we will examine the challenges and opportunities faced by financial intuitions when transitioning from an opinion-based, case-by-case evaluation of credit risk to the systematic application of the standardized scorecard across all sectors.
Join this meeting on February 23rd at 8 AM EST to learn and discuss:
- What are the drawbacks of using pure judgment or a structured “template” of guidelines in evaluating credit risk?
- What are the challenges with transitioning from using pure judgment or a structured “template” of guidelines to a scorecard?
- How to develop a rating scale for credit risk assessment? Specifically, how many ratings should be included, what does a rating mean, and what credits does a scale apply to?
- How are ratings assigned and who assigns them? What tools are used?
- How to calibrate the scorecard? How are the ratings linked to the probability of default? What data are required to calibrate? Who is responsible for the analysis?
CoP Chair: Rajeev Chalisgaonkar, Global Head of Business Banking, Standard Chartered Bank
Speakers
Aditya Sharma is the Head Global Credit Risk, Business Banking at Standard Chartered. Aditya is an experienced SME and commercial banker with over 20 years of experience and is currently Global Head of the Business Banking Risk in Standard Chartered Bank responsible for managing credit risk in Asia and Africa markets and is based in Singapore. In his earlier assignments in Standard Chartered Bank as Head of Global Working Capital and Trade products for business Banking, Aditya successfully rolled out trade and working capital solutions using simple rule-based products to ease lending to SMEs in Asia and Africa. As part of Regional Commercial Banking team, based in Dubai in earlier roles, Aditya has worked extensively to drive SME business in Middle eastern markets and worked with guarantee agencies and local govt bodies to increase access to SME financing. In his years spent in India in SME product management, he has hands on experience in managing different SME products to expand SME lending. As Head of Commercial Branch, he also has a very close understanding of transacting and servicing needs of SMEs in emerging markets. In his current role, Aditya is actively engaged in repurposing the SME business and risk management business with the help of alternate data and digital tools in partnerships with Fintechs to expand the reach and access to micro SME segments which historically were out of reach under traditional Banking for most of Banks. Under his leadership Bank has undertaken several initiatives across markets to automate and digitise SME lending. Aditya holds an MBA from Mumbai, India and his interests include travelling, reading and playing piano.
Steven Bennett has over 25 years’ senior executive experience developing a range of international financial services businesses across developed and emerging markets in Asia, Europe and North America. He has worked in Singapore, The Philippines, Hong Kong, USA, UK, Georgia and Lao PDR and held national, regional and global roles at HSBC, National Australia Bank and Turkish Bank UK. Through these has developed a broad range of expertise and delivered results across Commercial, Transaction and Retail Banking, HR, IT, Operations and as a country CEO in two markets (one developed, one emerging), including one start-up. His commercial experience is supported by extensive functional expertise in strategy development and execution, product and channel management, customer service enhancement, enterprise-wide risk management uplift, credit and financial crime compliance frameworks, corporate governance, regulatory engagement (in 3 jurisdictions), restructuring and digital transformation programmes. At Phongsavanh Bank, Steven is responsible for overseeing the Retail, SME and Corporate businesses, Marketing, the Branch Network and digital services. About Phongsavanh Bank. Phongsavanh Bank (PSVB) is the leading private bank in Lao PDR, providing a comprehensive range of financial services to over 350,000 retail, SME, corporate and institutional customers through over 45 branches and an extensive ATM network. Established in 2007, PSVB aspires to be the Bank of First Choice, supporting our customers, fostering financial inclusion and contributing to the development of a robust, trusted and internationally aligned financial services sector in Lao PDR.
Ligia Castro-Monge is the Credit Risk and Scoring Lead for Finca Impact Finance, a network of 19 banks and microfinance institutions that provides responsible financial services to more than 2.6 million low-income customers across the world and consistently delivers a double-bottom line of financial and social performance. Ligia has more than 35 years of professional experience in the economic and financial fields, 20 of which have been dedicated to promoting and implementing better risk management practices in the financial inclusion industry. Before joining Finca Impact Finance, Ligia provided consulting services to numerous international organizations (ADA, IADB, Oikocredit), and technical assistance, training and coaching in financial and non-financial risks management under the Basel II and Basel III guidelines to financial inclusion service providers in Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa, and Europe. Since joining Finca Impact Finance in 2018, Ligia has supported the strengthening of control and oversight capacities of Risk Departments at subsidiaries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Eurasia, and more recently has been transferred to the Operations Department to lead the development and monitoring of cost-effective data-driven credit decisioning tools for repeat and new customers; building dynamic reporting mechanisms for loan portfolio quality monitoring, and contribute to the consolidation of a sound credit risk management environment. Ligia holds university degrees in Economics from the University of Costa Rica (Baccalaurate), and a Master of Arts Degree in Economics from The University of Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
David Snyder has over thirty years of experience analyzing and managing risk. His full-time job involves evaluating the quality of credit risk management across Consumer and SME lines of business at one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. Additionally, he is pursuing doctoral research with City, University of London and collaborating with SME Finance Forum on a global study to determine key success factors for use of credit scoring for MSME lending. David has completed MBA, MSF and MPH in Epidemiology degrees. He lives with his family near San Francisco, California.
Dmitry Borodin is theHead of Products and Decision Analytics at CreditInfo. has participated in numerous SME scorecard development projects. He has developed scorecards for banking, MFI and credit bureau sectors. Dmitry has experience with models designed for managing credit risks, optimization of collections processes, identification of propensity to new credit and anti-fraud solutions. Dmitry as well delivered scorecard related trainings, workshops and presentations.
Robert Eiman is the Head of SME Finance at Development Bank of Namibia. His career spans over more than 20 years with experience in Retail Banking, Commercial Banking, Corporate Banking and Development Financing. He was previously the Head of SME Financing with First National Bank of Namibia. Other milestones of his career: Deputy Chairman and Chairman for the Namibia Chamber of Commerce Windhoek Branch until 2015. Regular Panelist for Global Business Labs in Namibia and Industry Expert for various organizations including Social Security Commission. His banking qualifications includes C.A.I.B – SA and he obtained a Masters in Business Administration through UNAM/Maastricht School of Management.
Rahul Goyal is the Head of Credit Risk Models at Standard Chartered Bank. Rahul brings 19 years of experience in analytics with 16 years in Risk Modelling solutions. He have worked extensively in credit risk management across portfolio lifecycle. In this period, Rahul have had the opportunity to manage multiple client relationships and have led model delivery teams supporting various banks and FIs across North America, LATAM, Europe, Middle East, Australia, Africa, and Asia. Over the last decade Rahul have built significant experience in banking and financial services industry with an increased focus on building analytics driven bespoke products, predictive modelling, solution frameworks, and integrated offerings.
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SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - Seventh Session - Fintech
The “SME Finance Virtual Marketplace” is an online match-making platform that promotes partnership and collaboration between members of the SME Finance Forum, especially financial institutions, fintech companies and development finance institutions/ investors. The virtual Marketplace is powered by GlobalLinker, an AI powered ‘Digital Ecosystem’ offering SMEs a range of services to build digital presence including e-commerce.
How does the Marketplace operate?
To participate in the marketplace session, each member of the SME Finance Forum must have 1) an institutional profile (company profile) and personal profiles (individuals representing the companies) set up on the marketplace. Institutional profile shall also include products/services being offered by the members. With institutional profile and personal profile, representatives of member institutions will be able to explore different offerings by other members such as investment products, advisory services, technology solutions...etc. The virtual platform will enable members to reach out to one another to discuss potential collaboration and partnership at their own convenience.
Seventh Marketplace Session
This seventh marketplace session, scheduled on Wednesday, February 16th from 8 am - 9:00 EST, will feature a series of fintech who will present their products/services.
Following the presentations, participants will have the opportunities to reach out directly to the presenting fintech to make inquiries or explore partnership opportunities based on their interests.
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Jessica Alfaro is a financial sector specialist at the SME Finance Forum. She has over 10 years’ experience working with MSMEs and is an expert in lending, entrepreneurship and finance. Based in Madrid, she is currently a consultant with the World Bank Group and a Visiting Lecturer in the School of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain. Previously, she has led and backstopped onsite technical needs assessments at banks in Africa and Asia, sourced and managed financial institution relationships for an international network of small business banks, and organized in-person and elearning training opportunities for bankers across a number of emerging markets as a Manager at CapitalPlus Exchange. She has been an Associate Director of the Illinois Small Business Development Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a Senior Loan Officer at ACCION Chicago and on the MSME lending team at Ithala Development Finance Corporation in Durban, South Africa. Committed to economic and financial inclusion, she has served on community Boards and committees, and volunteered with organizations that focus on improving access to finance for consumers and business owners.
Presenters
Asenso Finance
Keny Chang is the president of Asenso Finance, a technology company providing lending-as-a-service solutions to enable community banks and CDFIs to offer low-interest, zero-collateral loans to underserved and underrepresented small business owners. Prior to joining Asenso, Keny has had high-level experience at top finance brands, including Citigroup, Comerica Bank, and FINRA, with extensive knowledge in M&A, financing, real estate investment, commercial lending, international banking, financial consulting, and venture capital.
Fintech Group
Samuel Ouko has experience within the Banking Solutions Group of Fintech Group in delivering strategic Consultancy for clients in MFIs, Banking & Finance Industry across Africa. Fintech Group has provided technology solutions to 200+ financial institutions in 16 African countries serving combined 5 million+ end customers. The Fintech Group systems have facilitated seamless integration and inter-operability to promote supply chain financing solutions, payment systems, agency banking, digitalization, and open banking opportunities. Samuel has Solid Banking Domain knowledge in Digital Payments, Corporate Banking, and Retail Banking and has engaged clients in value proposition for projects to help clients explore unseen innovative and process automation opportunities. He is a Co-founder and former chairperson of the local chapter of the International Software Testing Qualification Board ISTQB, Regional Chair for the Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise FIBREE and a Speaker/Panelist on digitization trends with a focus on emerging technologies adoption for Financial Services Industry. He holds a technology degree and was in the pioneer Masters of Business Administration class of Strathmore University in Kenya.
Fyndoo
Dimitry Oosthoek is Head of Global Clients at Fyndoo, part of Topicus, since 2017. He is passionate about finance and fintech, at Fyndoo both worlds come together. With a wide range of experience in financial services and digital innovation he decided to bring all that experience together in the role of Head of Global Clients. With a focus on high-quality solutions, he also assists on product development and innovation, to bring Fyndoo to the next level. Fyndoo is an end-to-end SaaS lending platform that allows financiers to orchestrate the fintech ecosystem and delivers a fast and positive experience for customers, advisors, and bank employees.
Nomanini
Christopher Gwanmesia is Regional Partnerships Manager for West and Central Africa at Nomanini. His role entails establishing new partnerships in the region as well as managing existing ones that Nomanini has forged throughout the years. Before joining Nomanini, Christopher worked as an Economist at the Bank of Central African States where he successfully developed and managed several projects to increase access to finance in Cameroon's banking sector. He has an unbridled passion for financial inclusion and its benefits to the growth and development of African
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Rubix Data Sciences
Kaushal Sampat, a veteran of the information services industry, is the Founder of Rubix Data Sciences Pvt. Ltd. With over 25 years of experience, Kaushal spent 18 years with Dun & Bradstreet India in various leadership roles including President & Managing Director from 2010 - 2017. He helped establish Acuite Ratings & Research Ltd. (formerly SMERA Ratings Limited), Dun & Bradstreet’s joint venture with SIDBI, and has served on its board of directors. Kaushal is also an independent director on the board of Apar Industries Ltd, a billion dollar listed conglomerate, which is the largest aluminum and alloy conductor manufacturer in the world. He is a prolific speaker at industry events and has moderated discussions with several eminent political and business thought leaders. Kaushal holds a MBA from Bowling Green State University, Ohio and is a member of the prestigious Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). He is passionate about reading, geopolitics, art and travel.
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How technology drives financial inclusion in Tajikistan - A case study of Humo Lab
Gojo and Company is excited to announce that Humo, a Tajikistan-based microcredit deposit-taking organization (MDO) with a focus on technology, has joined the Gojo group as of September 2021.
Gojo will host a webinar to share how Humo, our newest partner company, has established Humo Lab to spearhead digitalization and innovation. At Humo Lab, several products have been developed and launched, including mobile banking apps, payment apps, kiosks, and more. The webinar will focus on Humo’s introduction, sharing best practices on how microfinance institutions can do better to extend financial inclusion. “Ask Me Anything” session in breakout rooms is planned at the end of the webinar.
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AgriFinance Community of Practice (CoP) - Webinar on Assessing Climate Risk for Agriculture
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The SME Finance Forum has created a Community of Practice on Agrifinance, a group of AgriFinance experts and practitioners from member and non-member institutions, to discuss experiences and document good practices and innovations in the field. One main objective of this CoP is to promote learning and sharing of good practice examples that help members improve their offering and better serve the Agri-SMEs.
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To kickstart 2022, the AgriFinance CoP is organizing a webinar on January 19th, 2022 at 8 a.m. EST, on “Assessing Climate Risk for Agriculture” featuring the work of Agroclimatica, a unique solution that quantifies the climate and production risk of agricultural credit application and through the transparency foments increased lending into agriculture. It simultaneously promotes climate smart agriculture while providing Green Finance Indicators, allowing institutions to monitor their Co2 footprint and report on their efforts towards net-cero. Fundación Génesis Empresarial will also present their developing climate-smart agriculture and adaptation to climate change models for small farmers in Guatemala.
Given the importance of this theme, the CoP is also preparing the next meeting for April 2022 and would like to invite members of the SME Finance Forum to express interest in sharing their work in this area and be part of the panel in April.
Host
Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
Moderator
Panos Varangis is currently the Principal Operations Officer at the Financial Institutions Group, IFC. Prior to that Panos led IFC’s work in advising financial institutions to provide financial services to SMEs, agribusinesses, and farmers. Before joining IFC, Panos served as the Deputy CEO of the Agricultural Bank of Greece (2004-2009). From 1987 to 2004, he worked at the World Bank in various positions at the International Commodities Division, the International Trade Division, the Bank’s Research Department, and finally at the Agricultural and Rural Development Department where he oversaw a global program on commodity risk management. Panos holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in New York.
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Lars Saquero Møller is the Chief Executive Officer of Ingemann Data A/Sis. Lars is a Danish of origin and entrepreneurial in spirit. Lars has led the development of an agro-exporting company in Nicaragua for the last 11 years, serving as the access to market for 2.500 honey- and cocoa farmers and exporting to 40 countries. Since 2016, Lars has been point on the development and scale up of Agroclimatica, a climate smart FinTech that offers a range of products and solutions to financial institutions promoting long-term, sustainable financial inclusion through risk scoring as well as climate smart agriculture globally.
Edward Solis is the Agricultural Manager at Fundación Génesis Empresarial, where he founded the "Supply Chain" program. He manages the Agricultural and Livestock portfolio with excellent results, promoting the development of Guatemala in the most vulnerable segments, the vision and mission of the institution. Edward has participated in the development of traditional and digital financial products for the sector and he is currently promoting climate-smart agriculture and adaptation to climate change models for small farmers in Guatemala.
Edward Solis es Gerente Agropecuario en Fundación Génesis Empresarial, en donde dio origen al programa de Encadenamientos Productivos y dirige la cartera Agrícola y Pecuaria con excelentes resultados, impulsando el Desarrollo del País de Guatemala en los segmentos más vulnerables, siendo esta la visión y misión de la Institución. Edward ha participado en el desarrollo de productos financieros tradicionales y digitales para el sector y actualmente impulsando modelos de agricultura climáticamente inteligente y adaptación al cambio climático de los pequeños productores de Guatemala.
Lead Discussants
Onur Terzi is the Agricultural Banking Marketing and Business Development Senior Manager at TEB. Onur was born in 1979 in Izmir. In 2003, He graduated from Ege University in Agricultural Engineering and attended Agricultural economics graduate class. He started to work as a sales support and project coordinator in various companies based in İzmir. In 2007, he went to Italy for his doctoral studies and completed his Ph.D. course and returned to Turkey in 2008. In 2016, he founded the agribusiness banking marketing department and he became the head of marketing, product management, and business development for agricultural banking.
Toshiaki Ono is a senior financial sector specialist at the World Bank where he supports various lending projects and analytical work to promote access to finance in the agriculture sector mainly in Africa and Asia & Pacific. Prior to joining the World Bank, Toshiaki held several positions at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) where he worked for agriculture finance and agribusiness development projects in South Asia and Africa. He also has practical experience in debt financing and investment banking through his earlier work at the Development Bank of Japan and Nomura. Mr. Ono holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York.
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Communities of Practice
With strong interests and requests from members, the SME Finance Forum has launched communities of practices (CoPs) to allow experts and practitioners from member institutions to share knowledge and good practices in their respective areas with one another. Most importantly, members openly share challenges that they face in their own institutions and help one another explore most suitable solutions based on their experiences.
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Risk Management CoP
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2021
2020
2019
Women’s Entrepreneurship Finance CoP
2022 March Meeting
2021 May Meeting
2021 August Meeting
2021 December Meeting
AgriFinance CoP
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2022 - Assessing Climate Risk for Agriculture
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2021- Digital Solutions
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