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Virtual Roundtable Series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts #17 - Digital Banks dealing with COVID-19
By invitation only
COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digitization in almost all industries. In the SME banking industry, digital banks appear to have an advantage over incumbent traditional banks in terms of technology preparedness and access to real-time data. Is COVID-19 a perfect storm in which neobanks can demonstrate that data and digits are more resilient than brick and mortar? Are digital banks outperforming the incumbent banks?
On Thursday, July 23, 2020, at 8 a.m. EDT, senior executives from TymeGlobal, a digital banking business operating in Africa and Asia; Fidor, the first digital-only bank based in Germany; Solarisbank, a technology company with a German banking license; Judo Bank, a dedicated SME business bank in Australia; and UBX, a fintech company for financial institutions and SMEs, will discuss how COVID-19 pandemic is affecting digital banks differently, and their long term plans, the competition with incumbent traditional banks, as well as data availability.
About COVID-19 Roundtable Series
In times of crisis, accurate and timely information is key. Sharing knowledge and practical experience are proven forms of investment that pave the path to success. With the purpose of helping our members build their own knowledge advantage, the SME Finance Forum facilitates activities and learning opportunities with the strategic approach of collecting and disseminating the best practices, while connecting SME finance experts and practitioners within our global network. Starting in late March, the Forum hosts weekly virtual roundtable sessions focusing on mitigation efforts used to cope with COVID-19, sharing those experiences in a continuous and real-time basis. Learn more>
What you will learn
How does COVID-19 affect digital banks differently?
What are the pros and cons of responding to COVID-19 from the digital banking base?
What is the longer terms impact on development of digital banks as alternatives?
NEW: Extra Time with Speakers!
Want to learn more about an institution or speak directly with a panelist from the roundtable? Join our new Roundtable – Extra Time! This is 30-minute breakout session with one or two of the presenters from the roundtable. Microphones will be unmuted and participants can speak more conversationally, and ask direct questions to the presenters. Each session will be chaired by a SME Finance Forum moderator.
After the end of the roundtable, members can join the lively conversation with:
• Speakers: Daniel Seifert and John Januszczak with SME Finance Forum moderator: Matthew Gamser - Stay in main session room.
• Speakers: Coenraad Jonker and Hassan Nasser, with SME Finance Forum moderator: Khrystyna Kushnir - Link to register
Host: Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
Moderator
Khystyna Kushnir is the Knowledge Management Lead at the SME Finance Forum. She has over ten years of work experience in private enterprise and financial sector development. Before joining the Forum, Khrystyna worked as an operations analyst at the Development Economics of the World Bank Group on Doing Business indicators; Women, Business and the Law project; and MSME Country Indicators. Prior to working for the World Bank Group, she was a Research Assistant for Central and Eastern Europe at the Heritage Foundation. Ms. Kushnir also worked, as a Research Analyst, for the Japanese consultancy Washington CORE on Russian and Asian markets. Ms. Kushnir holds MA in International Economic Relations from the American University and is a Fulbright scholar.
About the Speakers
Coenraad Jonker is the co-founder and CEO of Tyme, a digital banking business operating in Africa and Asia. He has more than 23 years’ experience in banking, law and professional services. He began his career with Edward Nathan Corporate Law Advisers in 1996 and became its Chief Executive Officer in 2000. In that year, he also joined Nedcor Investment Bank’s executive committee. In 2005, Coenraad joined Standard Bank as Director of Community Banking where he led a new strategy to extend banking to underserved consumers, adding digital channels and more than a million additional customers to the bank. In 2011, he moved to Deloitte as a Partner. In June 2012, Coenraad launched the fintech start-up Take Your Money Everywhere (TYME). The business was acquired by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) in January 2015. In 2017 he was appointed as Group Executive at CBA, responsible for its international retail banking and insurance business. At the end of 2018 Coenraad led the buy-out of the Tyme business from CBA. Since January this year he is CEO of the Tyme business in Hong Kong and Chairman of TymeBank in South Africa. He holds an MBA and two law degrees with honours. He has held multiple Board positions, including eBank Namibia, Vietnam International Bank (VIB) and PT Bank Commonwealth in Indonesia which he chaired until December 2018.
Hassan Nasser is the Chief Innovation Officer at Fidor. Hassan is responsible for directing design and bringing high-quality next gen products to market, resulting in hyper-personalized customer experiences. With an engineer mindset, he builds award-winning products, while also being a long-term strategic thinker with a decision-driven approach towards strategic partnerships and strategic technologies. Hassan has more than 10 years of experience of consultancy practice globally, banking experience which spans across Digital Banking, Open Banking APIs, Risk & Compliance, Core Banking, Consumer Lending and CX Channels, and has led multiple Digital Banking initiatives at Fidor.
Dr. Daniel Seifert is Chief Operating Officer of Solarisbank since February 2020. As a proven operations expert for processes and technologies in banking, he is responsible for all banking processes as well as the scaling and further development of the operations domain at Solarisbank. Before joining Solarisbank, Daniel worked for UBS Asset Management for more than five years. There, his most recent responsibility was setting up and managing the operations and customer service of a new technology-driven B2B2C business with teams in three countries. Prior to this, he worked for almost ten years as a consultant with a focus on banking operations and technology at McKinsey & Company.
Chris Bayliss is the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Judo Bank. Chris is a career international banker with 35 years’ experience. His career has spanned many global banks and markets, including Barclays, HBOS, Clydesdale / Yorkshire Bank, Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), National Australia Bank (NAB) and most recently Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore. A truly rounded banking executive, Chris has experience in Business Credit Risk Management, Operational Risk Management, Back Office Operations, Technology, SME Business Banking and Personal Banking Sales and Service. As Executive General Manager of NAB Retail Banking (2010-2012), Chris led a team of 7,500 bankers across circa 800 branches throughout Australia, covering Personal and Small Business Banking. As the Global Head of Personal Banking (including Small Business Banking) at Standard Chartered Bank, responsible for a portfolio covering 60,000 staff across over 40 countries, banking over 12 million customers. In this role, Chris was responsible for consolidating 40+ individual country strategies into one global bank strategy (supported by a unified CVP, global products, systems and channels). In SME banking, Chris draws on his direct experience as a SME credit analyst (Barclays Bank / HBOS 1990-1995), SME Relationship Manager (Yorkshire Bank 1995-1999), Head of SME Credit (Clydesdale Bank 1999), Chief Risk Officer, including SME credit (BNZ 2002-2004), Head of SME Banking (as part of COO portfolio – Yorkshire Bank 2004). As the leader of the Retail Bank of BNZ, NAB and Standard Chartered (2007-2016) Chris’s portfolio has included Small Business customers. Chris has developed a strong personal brand as a developer, motivator and leader of people. His leadership style has been profiled by Gary Hamel in the Wall Street Journal, Gary Hamel’s 2012 book “What Matters Now” and also by the London Business School. Chris is an Associate of the British Bankers Association (ACIB) and has a specialised Financial Service MBA from Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
John Januszczak was appointed President & CEO of UBX after joining UnionBank as a Consultant in 2018. Prior to UnionBank, John served as the Chief Operating Officer of Manulife Philippines. Over the years, John has successfully led operations and technology in various positions including head of global business process management at Manulife Financial and Vice President of Product Management at Meta Software Corporation.
John has a degree in Astrophysics from the University of Toronto.
Registration is open for members here.
For more information: please contact: Khrystyna Kushnir.
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16
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Jul 16, 2020
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2020-07-15 20:00:00
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Relief Measures Available for Women Entrepreneurs During and Post COVID-19
New Faces New Voices Rwanda in collaboration with the SME Response Clinic will be hosting a live discussion focused on existing government relief measures that can help support women entrepreneurs during and post COVID-19. The discussion will be hosted on the SME Response Clinic’s Facebook page at 3:00 pm on July 16 and will be held primarily in Kinyarwanda, and it is organized by SME Finance Forum member AFR.
The panel will be moderated by Ida Ingabire, Secretariat at New Faces, New Voices Rwanda and Ruziga Emmanuel Masantura, Business Jounalist, Rwanda Broadcasting Agency
This discussion will be the first of a two-part conversation with key stakeholders in the Rwandan economy. The second webinar, scheduled for July 30, will focus on how financial services providers are addressing the specific needs of women entrepreneurs in the face of COVID-19.
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Jul 14, 2020
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2020-07-13 20:00:00
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ExO World: Small Business Summit!
ExO World: Small Business Summit! is a global one-day online event which features speakers from various industries and disciplines. The entire event will be live-moderated by Salim Ismail and will carry us from the current challenges facing our world to envisioning positive future scenarios and finding our own individual role in making this future a reality, NOW! The main theme of the event is Surviving 2020, Creating a Thriving Future, and is organized in partnership with the SME Finance Forum.
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Jul 13, 2020
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2020-07-12 20:00:00
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Afro-Asian Fintech Festival 2020
The 2nd Afro-Asia FinTech Festival will bring together FinTech entrepreneurs, financial industry & telco leaders, tech investors, government & central bank representatives and development agencies professionals and it is organized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, that also organises the Singapore FinTech Festival. The SME Finance Forum will be represented by our CEO, Matt Gamser.
In 2019, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced a FinTech partnership and launched the inaugural Afro-Asia FinTech Festival. The Afro-Asia FinTech Festival is the first of its kind in the region that recognises the huge opportunity of bringing together FinTech innovations across Africa and Asia. With Kenya and Singapore as the launch pads for connections, collaborations and the exchange of ideas, the partnership addresses real world problems through FinTech. The first Afro-Asia FinTech Festival took place in Nairobi and brought together close to 2,000 participants from 43 countries across Africa, Asia and other parts of the globe to exchange ideas, forge partnerships and nurture thriving FinTech ecosystems. Read more here.
Find out more at: https://afroasiafintech.net
Email:
MAS - fintech@mas.gov.sg
CBK - fintech@centralbank.go.ke
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Jul
11
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Jul 11, 2020
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2020-07-10 20:00:00
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Member Event: BASIX Sub-K Samvad
"BASIX Sub-K Samvad", a virtual talk series with Social Sector Innovators, Influencers, and Integrators. These talks are intended to bring forth experiences, ideas and lessons from veterans and disruptors on Innovation, Technology, Leadership, Finance, Investments and Governance.
This initiative is a tribute to two stalwarts and founding members of BASIX group companies, Late Mr. V Nagarajan (their long time auditor, financial advisor and orchestrator of innovative institutional structures that have shaped microfinance industry in India) and Late Mr. Amit Mehta (Founding CEO of Sub-K). BASIX Group and Sub-K will always be indebted to them for their visionary work, guidance and support.
In the inaugural session, BASIX will feature Mr. Vijay Mahajan who will share his views on the chosen topic "Path to Recovery: Employment and Growth in the time of COVID-19" which will shed light on how the economy could be turned around by generating employment opportunities during these times of uncertainty.
Register on the link below. The event lasts for no more than 45 mins.
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09
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2020-07-08 20:00:00
2020-07-08 20:00:00
Virtual Roundtable Series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts #16 - Deep Dive on Collections and Risk
By invitation only
To contain the negative economic impact of COVID-19, financial institutions have swiftly reviewed their lending protocols, adjusted their risk assessment and debt collection strategies to minimize costs and avoid losses. Credit scoring models have been reviewed and adjusted. The regulators have imposed and, in some cases, subsequently extended mandatory and/or voluntary moratoria on debt collections.
On Thursday, July 9, 2020, at 8 a.m. EDT, a panel discussion with a featured speaker, who is a Global Head of Collections at the Standard Chartered, which operates in 60 countries around the world; and two discussants – a Specialist in Banking Strategy and Risk Assessment from IFC and a Co-founder and Co-CEO of Lidya, a fintech platform working to ease access to finance for SMEs across frontier and emerging markets; will analyze in depth how the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic influenced risk assessment and debt collection since over the past four months.
About COVID-19 Roundtable Series
In times of crisis, accurate and timely information is key. Sharing knowledge and practical experience are proven forms of investment that pave the path to success. With the purpose of helping our members build their own knowledge advantage, the SME Finance Forum facilitates activities and learning opportunities with the strategic approach of collecting and disseminating the best practices, while connecting SME finance experts and practitioners within our global network. Starting in late March, the Forum hosts weekly virtual roundtable sessions focusing on mitigation efforts used to cope with COVID-19, sharing those experiences in a continuous and real-time basis. Learn more>
What you will learn
How did the situation evolve?
How much of the portfolios are being restructured?
How are companies differentiating?
This is a continuation of the discussion from the seventh virtual roundtable in the series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts – “Making Adjustments: Collection Strategies, Credit Scoring and Regulatory Forbearance,” whose records are available on this page, and through our member portal.
Host & Moderator: Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
About the Speaker
Kamal Hingorani is the Global Head of Collections for Retail Banking at Standard Chartered Bank. He is based in Singapore and manages a portfolio covering 25 markets across the bank’s footprint in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Standard Chartered Bank offers the complete suite of retail banking products covering credit cards and personal loans, mortgage and auto loans, wealth management and business banking. He has 25 years of work experience with 20 years in Retail Banking and 5 years in the Telecom industry. His retail banking experience covers Sales, Credit and Operational risk and Internal Audit. He has managed the End to end credit including Credit policy, Underwriting and Collections with experience across Frontline Country and Group leadership roles. He specializes in risk management and has worked out of India, UAE, Singapore and Kenya managing markets in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
About the Discussants
Simba Mabhena is a Global Specialist in the Banking Strategy & Risk Assessment Group at IFC focusing on Advisory Services. He is based in Nairobi, Kenya, since August 2017. He has over 20 years of international banking experience working with financial institutions in Africa, Middle East and Asia. His area of specialization is on Risk Governance, Balance Sheet Risk Management, Treasury, Asset & Liability Management., Credit Risk, Market Risk and Liquidity Risk Management.
Ercin Eksin is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Lidya (www.lidya.co), a fintech platform working to ease access to finance for SMEs across frontier and emerging markets. Through its digital platform, Lidya analyzes over 1,000 data points to build a customized credit score, assess a customer for a loan and disburse loans to qualified businesses in as little as 48 hours. Lidya currently operates in Nigeria, Poland and Czech Republic where close to 200,000 businesses have signed up for its service and is backed by Omidyar Network, Accion, Newid Capital, Bamboo Capital and Alitheia Capital. Prior to Lidya, Ercin co-founded ACE (Africa Courier Express), the leading last-mile eCommerce delivery company in Nigeria and is the former Co-CEO of Jumia Nigeria and Chief Operating Officer of Jumia Africa where he managed operations for Jumia across 6 African countries including Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, Morocco and Ivory Coast. Ercin has prior experience at Rocket Internet where he served as a director of Global Operations working with over 20 companies across 20 countries to achieve operational excellence. Prior to Rocket Internet, Ercin worked for Toyota specializing in advanced research in Electronics in Belgium. Ercin holds a degree in Electrical Engineering with honors from METU and has an MBA from the University of Chicago-Booth.
Registration is open for members here.
For more information: please contact: Khrystyna Kushnir.
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NEW: Weekly Member Update Summary on COVID-19 - June 15, 2020
Weekly Member Update Summary on COVID-19 - June 8, 2020
Weekly Member Update Summary on COVID-19 - June 1, 2020
Weekly Member Update Summary on COVID-19 - May 25, 2020
Weekly Member Update Summary on COVID-19 - May 18, 2020
Weekly Member Update Summary on COVID-19 - May 11, 2020
Weekly Member Update Summary on COVID-19 - May 4, 2020
Weekly Member Update Summary on COVID-19 - April 27, 2020
Weekly Member Update Summary on COVID-19 - April 20, 2020
Weekly Member Update Summary on COVID-19 - April 13, 2020
Weekly Member Update Summary on COVID-19 - April 6, 2020
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