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Virtual Roundtable Series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts #6-Banking Women Entrepreneurs during COVID-19
Featuring Santander, BRAC Bank, and BHD Leon experiences
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Financial inclusion for women has always been challenging, particularly in emerging and developing markets where women entrepreneurs have lower access to capital, which severely restricts their progress and ability to contribute to the national economies. The COVID-19 crisis makes financial inclusion for women entrepreneurs even more challenging as it poses serious threats to the financial stability of SMEs, and especially to women entrepreneurs. A recent policy brief, prepared by the OECD, highlights that despite women follow more risk-averse business strategies, women-operated businesses may be at higher risk of closing during periods of reduced or zero revenue.
Therefore, promoting good practices in women entrepreneur financing has always been an important focus of the SME Finance Forum. As part of its “Learn” member services, the Forum has organized numerous learning sessions, both through webinars and physical meetings, to showcase experiences and good practice examples from financial and non-financial service providers, that work to accelerate women financial empowerment, in hope that more of those good practices are widely adopted by other institutions so women entrepreneurs can be better served.
In the sixth virtual roundtable, organized by the SME Finance Forum on Thursday, April 30, 2020, at 8:00 a.m., you will learn how institutions serving women-owned businesses in emerging markets are addressing these challenges, supporting them with innovative financial solutions during these unprecedented times of COVID-19 pandemic.
Join the discussion with Banco Santander Argentina, the largest private commercial bank in Argentina, BHD Leon, a commercial bank in the Dominican Republic with more than one million customers, and SME Finance Forum member BRAC Bank, in Bangladesh, winner of the 2019 Global SME Finance Awards for the “women-owned SME Bank of the year” category.
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José Etchegoyen is a Senior Global Banking on Women Specialist at IFC. José has over 20 years of experience in international banking and emerging markets, focused on unbanked or underserved populations. Currently, at IFC, he leads advisory services, product development, and strategy for the Banking on Women business line in Latin America. He also leads mentoring and training activities on best practices in Banking on Women. Prior to joining IFC, he served as Director of Financial Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services in Washington D.C. and Principal Banking Solutions Specialist at SAS Institute in Miami, Florida. He also worked in leading FIs in the USA and Latin America, such as Citibank and Banco Santander. José holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in International Business Strategy and Finance from the Kellogg School of Management (Evanston, USA).
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María Gabriela Marine is the Head of Women and SME Strategy at BHD Leon in the Dominican Republic, and the Marketing Manager, with over 17 years of experience in the Dominican market. She is an expert in negotiation, marketing systems, franchising, and branding. She develops communication strategies for all Banco BHD Leon's partnerships. Currently leads the strategy of marketing of women and SMEs segments, among others. She is responsible for launching and positioning the "MUJER" credit card business and the updating of its value proposition. She designs and implements marketing strategies for the Women's Market (Gender Strategy for SMEs and individuals) for BHD Leon Bank, thus becoming the brand leader for Dominican women in financial services. Maria Gabriela also leads the development and implementation of the non-financial services value proposition for SMEs, and the positioning of the new brand "OPEN for SME's."
Pura Mendez is the Women Segment Manager at Banco BHD León in the Dominican Republic, in charge of the implementation of the bank’s gender strategy. This includes development of value propositions for both individuals and SMEs, overseeing metrics and scorecard compliance and evolution, and defining action plans to improve team results. She is also responsible for training sales personnel, coordinating internal communications, and analyzing Women’s Market data to identify patterns and improve value proposition and develop tactical plans for the segment.
Gisela Babbaro is the Product Head, Banca Women, and Select of Banco Santander Argentina, the largest private commercial bank in Argentina. She is a project leader with over 18 years of experience in the Argentinian financial market. She has a vast experience in launching products for select customers, developing new customer experience models and leveraging widely used technology and creating value to the customer to maximize their experience with the bank’s brand. Currently, she is responsible for two segments: Select and Women, and she also leads marketing strategies to attract new customers adding value in order to keep them engaged with the brand and to ensure customer loyalty. She is an expert in strategy design and implementation towards women empowerment and inclusion in the financial market. Her work includes the development of financial and non-financial value proposals.
Syed Abdul Momen is the Head of SME Banking at BRAC Bank in Bangladesh. He took over as the Head of SME Banking on July 13, 2017. He joined BRAC Bank in August 2005 and he has 13 years of multifaceted experience in the Banking Sector primarily concentrating in Technology, Operations, and Business Functions. During the first 2 years in BRAC Bank, he restructured technology infrastructure and played a crucial role in the Core Banking Platform migration. In August 2007, Momen was posted in BRAC Afghanistan Bank as Chief Operating Officer (COO) on a 2-year secondment. During his tenure in Afghanistan, he looked after the bank's SME Business & expanded the bank's network in three provinces. He has also contributed to the development of SME Banking Policies & Guidelines of Central Bank of Afghanistan. After his return from Afghanistan in 2009, he joined BRAC Bank’s SME Division and ran a special collection project, which was portfolio’s prime concern. After successfully driving the countrywide collection initiative, he was appointed as the Head of Small Business in July 2010 and since then he is leading the industry’s largest small business portfolio. His team was awarded Chairman's Excellence Award in 2012 for extraordinary business achievement. Mr. Momen started his career in ANZ Grindlays Bank in 1999 where he played an instrumental role in the migration of Core Banking Platform in Middle East & South Asia region including Bangladesh, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Nepal, Sri Lanka after the acquisition of Grindlays Bank’s operation by Standard Chartered Bank. He was also instrumental in Standard Chartered Bank’s IT service delivery & business process centralization Project. Mr. Momen is a Computer Communications Graduate from Middlesex University, UK with distinction. During his 13 years of banking career, he attended numerous seminars, training, and workshops in and out of the country.
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Virtual Roundtable Series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts #5 - Risk Sharing in the Biggest Crisis Ever
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To take stock of the collective efforts of institutions and governments around the world regarding the impact of COVID-19 outbreak, the SME Finance Forum organizes weekly virtual roundtables designed to support members by providing a space to share experiences and knowledge through the industry’s leading voices.
On Thursday, April 23, 2020, at 8 a.m., the Forum will host the fifth virtual roundtable of this series to discuss how the negative economic impact of COVID-19 pandemic is mitigated in Europe. Our main speakers, Katrin Sturm, the Secretary-General of the European Association of Guarantee Institutions (AECM), will explain the role of the EU in supporting guarantee institutions, and Haesong Kwon, Deputy Director of International Affairs Team in Korea Credit Guarantee Fund, KODIT Korea, will talk about the role of the Korean Government in that matter. A panel of fellow discussants, Mark Scicluna Bartoli, Executive, EU & Institutional Affairs, at Bank of Valletta, representing the WSBI, Abdelmoughite Abdelmoumen, the Head of Strategy and Cooperation at CCG Finance (Morocco), Giuseppe Gramigna, the Chief Economist of the US SBA, Ahmad Islah, Head of Risk of CGC Egypt, and Maria Laura Garcia Conejero, General Manager of FOGABA in Argentina, will further discuss how institutions are affected by new regulatory initiatives, and the measures being taken at a national level, amidst the biggest crisis ever.
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Katrin Sturm is the Secretary-General of the European Association of Guarantee Institutions (AECM). Katrin has joined AECM, which has 48 members from 29 countries in Europe, as Secretary-General in November 2013. Katrin started working in Brussels in May 2001. Prior to AECM, Katrin worked for the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations (BDA), for the German Savings Banks Association (DSGV) as well as for the German Confederation of Skilled Crafts and Small Businesses (ZDH) being at the same time the EU Representative of the Association of German Guarantee Banks (VDB). She graduated from the University of Passau (Germany) in Law taking part in an ERASMUS exchange program with the University of Angers (France), then passed the second state exam in law in Potsdam (Germany), and finally acquired a Master of Law from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) taking part in an exchange program with the University of Cape Town (South Africa). Katrin is a qualified bank clerk and Honorary Consultant of Taiwan SMEG, a credit guarantee institution specialized in supporting SMEs in Taiwan in getting access to finance. Next to her mother tongue, German Katrin speaks English, French, Italian and Spanish, understands Dutch, and reads Portuguese. She is married and has three children.
Haesong Kwon is a Deputy Director of the International Affairs Team in Korea Credit Guarantee Fund (KODIT). He has been in charge of various tasks in the KODIT, including international affairs, credit examination and guarantee supply to SMEs, and debt management since 2011. He participated in the knowledge-sharing project organized by the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Korea for the development of the Honduras credit guarantee system with the Korea Development Institute. He held a working-level council meeting with the credit guarantee institution of Asian countries to share the credit guarantee system of each country. He holds a BA in Law from Hongik University and Business Administration from Korea National Open University, Republic of Korea.
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Mark Scicluna Bartoli is the Executive of EU & Institutional Affairs, Bank of Valletta. He has been running the EU & Institutional Affairs section of Bank of Valletta through its Malta and Brussels offices since setting them up in 2012. He is tasked with improving access to finance for SMEs through the provision of EU funded financial instruments. Over the past six years, Mark has mobilized over 140 million Euro in private funds for Maltese SMEs. Between 2004 and 2012 Mark was tasked with setting up the EU funding unit within Malta Enterprise, which successfully tapped over €45million in EU funding for Maltese enterprises. Prior to 2004, Mark worked as a consultant with Arthur D Little in Cambridge, UK, and the EU Commission in Brussels. Mark studied life sciences at the University of Malta and later specialised in environmental assessment and evaluation as a Chevening Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. On a personal level, Mark is engaged by the EU Commission and United Nations as an expert in the fields of access to finance and environment and is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Investment Fund. Specialties: EU funded risk-sharing instruments, EU project implementation, SME policy, and Banking regulation.
Abdelmoughite Abdelmoumen is the Head of Strategy and Cooperation at CCG Finance (Morocco), he has an experience totaling 18 years in public and private sectors. Prior to joining CCG Finance, he served as a Senior Manager at the strategy & financial consulting practices at Deloitte. As the Head of Strategy and Cooperation, Abdelmoughite is in charge of guarantee/financing product design, strategic planning, special projects and international cooperation. Abdelmoughite holds a master’s degree in Financial Engineering from Sophia Antipolis University (France) and a bachelor’s degree in Management from the ENCG Business School (Morocco).
Giuseppe Gramigna is an SME Consultant, and SBA Chief Economist. Giuseppe’s work focuses on small and medium enterprises (SMEs). He advises national, multilateral and non- profit entities on how to best assist SMEs. His area of expertise includes: (i) national SME policies, (ii) designing SME assistance programs, (iii) program benchmarking, performance and impact evaluations, (iv) portfolio credit risk monitoring and assessments, (v) portfolio and partner risk management. Giuseppe works with international organizations such as the World Bank, OECD, APEC, and the ASEAN. He severs on the scientific committees of several academic institutions and publications. He also serves on the advisory board of several non-profit entities that assist SMEs. At the U.S. Small Business Administration, Giuseppe serves as the Agency’s Chief Economist, where he advises the Agency on economic trends affecting small businesses and leads research on economic impact evaluations and strategic planning. He served as the Chair of the interagency Subcommittee on Evaluating Business Technical Assistance Programs (E-BTAP), a group responsible for developing best practices for implementing economic impact evaluations within the U.S. Federal government. He also serves as the U.S. Permanent Delegate and Vice-Chair to the OECD Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship. Before joining the U.S. Small Business Administration, Giuseppe headed the consulting firm, DASSI Corp. His other areas of interest include the construction industries, tourism, information services, and regional economic development. Giuseppe earned a BA in economics from The State University of New York at Purchase, and a graduate degree in economics from The New School For Social Research. His academic research focused on how changes in financial markets affect small business lending, and on labor migration during periods of economic transition. He later worked in the equity research department of a major investment bank, where he focused on natural resource industries. From 1996 to 2001, Giuseppe served as vice president and then president of the SUNY Purchase College Alumni Association., He also served as Alumni Representative to the Purchase College Council, a gubernatorial appointed oversight body.
Ahmed Islah is the Chief Risk Officer for CGC since September 2018. Mr. Islah has worked during his career which spans over 16 years in the risk department of many financial institutions including banks (Piraeus Bank, NSGB), private equity firms (Al-Ahli for Development and Investments) and financial leasing companies (Nile Financial Leasing), he also is very experienced in training and instructing professionals as he accumulated 8 years of experience as finance and investment instructor in many international universities and organizations (American University in Cairo, Cambridge Kipp University, Arab Administrative, and Development Organization). Mr. Islah is one of few CFA Charter holders in Egypt, he is also certified by many other institutions in the finance and investment (American University in Cairo, Egyptian Banking Institute). Mr. Islah is a regular member of Chartered Financial Analysts institute U.S.A.; he is also a member of the Egyptian Society of Investment Professionals.
Maria Laura Garcia Conejero is the General Manager of FOGABA (Argentina). María Laura is a lawyer with an extensive professional career in both the public and private sectors. She was the Head of Advisers to the Undersecretariat for Deregulation and Economic Organization of the Argentine Ministry of Economy. She served as the Deputy General Manager and General Manager attached to the Presidency of the Banco Hipotecario Nacional (the National Mortgage Bank). In the private sector, she worked for the Recovery Group as the General Manager of the Argentine branch. Later, she was responsible for launching activities in Brazil, and she acted as an advisor to the group. Since 2016, she is the General Manager of FOGABA, the Buenos Aires Guarantee Fund, articulating the public and private spheres, where she reinvigorated the Fund's activity for the financial inclusion of SMEs.
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Virtual Roundtable Series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts #4: DBS on Digital Relief
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The SME Finance Forum organizes this weekly virtual roundtable series to provide its members with opportunities to share and learn about the impacts of COVID-19 on their MSME clients and their own institutions, on a continuous and real-time basis. The 75-minute session also allows the members to share their practical experiences especially strategies and initiatives they are taking to help their clients cope with this unprecedented crisis.
The fourth roundtable of this series will be held on Thursday, April 16, 2020, at 8:00 a.m. EST, and will feature DBS Bank, a member of the SME Finance Forum and one of Asia’s leading banks with over 9 million customers in 18 markets. Chloe Huang, Team Lead, SME Business Engagement, SME Banking, and David Kah Seng Hui, Regional Head, SME Business Innovations & Solutions at DBS will be sharing the bank’s program and experiences with special focus on digital offering. The speakers will also present DBS’ digital relief package for one of the severely impacted industries, Food & Beverage, among other measures implemented to help their SME clients. This session will be joined by two discussants Jesse Weinberg, Head of SME Customer Segment, FNB in Africa, and Thomas DeLuca, CEO and Founder of AMP Credit Technologies.
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Chloe Huang is the Team Lead, SME Business Engagement, SME Banking at DBS Bank Ltd. Chloe currently heads the SME Business Engagement team at DBS Bank. Her team looks after the prospect, customer and partner engagement programs, and works closely with the various product, channel and sales teams to strategically achieve business objectives of acquisition and conversion. In the current role, there are secondary objectives like driving internal and external collaboration opportunities for SME Banking and propagating digital customer behaviour (Digital transaction modes, online account opening & online loan applications). As part of SME Business Engagement, she also leads collaboration initiatives with DBS Foundation Ltd, a not-for-profit company established to strengthen DBS’ corporate social responsibility across the region. The initiatives drive social impact in 2 ways, (1) offering support Social Enterprises in their business growth through tailored products and mentorship programs, (2) engaging traditional SMEs to educate them on including social responsibility as part of their business proposition. Chloe brings with her 13 years of experience in strategic customer engagement planning. Prior to joining DBS, Chloe worked in DDB Group Singapore (RAPP), managing regional clients like Courts, Maybank, Cerebos and Electrolux SEA.
David Hui is the Regional Head, SME Business Innovations & Solutions, SME Banking at DBS Bank Ltd. David currently heads the SME Business Innovations & Solutions team at DBS Bank. His team is responsible for driving industry-led innovations with a focus on delivering fuss-free and easy banking to SME customers with an emphasis on delighting customers through intuitive journeys. Supported by business analytics and the bank’s digital assets, David’s team has the responsibility to continuously improve the key journeys that are important to a SME, easy and quick access to credit, and simple ways to onboard an account for business operations. He also works closely with other stakeholders within the bank to improve the transactional banking journeys. Making banking invisible for DBS’s SME customers is of latest focus for David and the team, where the objective is centered on creating hyper personalised experiences for the customer through various interaction points, always working towards the wow factor with an aim to delight. Together with external industry collaborations with some of the best-known companies in this field, the team is working to reimagine banking in its simplest form. David graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management with a double major in Finance from the Singapore Management University, and previously was Head of SME Customer Experience for DBS India. Prior to DBS, David had worked in Credit Suisse and Barclays Capital with wide operational experience in OTC Derivatives across various asset classes.
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Jesse Weinberg is the Head of SME Customer Segment at FNB. He joined the bank in 2010 to launch PayPal as a business product offering to the South African market. Since then he has enjoyed various transactional banking roles within FNB, including the redesign and implementation of the eBucks for Business Programme in 2012. Prior to joining FNB, Jesse had jointly-founded and managed two successful businesses in the IT and plant hire industries, one of which was later acquired by a listed telecom company at the time. Jesse is passionate about entrepreneurship and small business development. In his current role, he is committed to finding ways in which FNB can help support the development and growth of SMEs in South Africa.
Thomas DeLuca is the CEO and Founder of AMP Credit Technologies, a Hong Kong-based financial technology company that provides an outsourced processing platform for banks and other institutional lenders to lend to small businesses based upon their cash flow, on a profitable and scalable basis. AMP’s proven proprietary loan management system leverages concepts and principles from microfinance, payment processing, social media, and ‘big data’—together with more traditional loan underwriting principles—to help banks lend to their small business customers on a profitable and efficient basis. Prior to founding Advanced Merchant Payments, he was a co-founder of Planet Payment, Inc., a multi-currency payment processor publicly-traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market, and dedicated to enabling internationally-focused processors, acquiring banks, and merchants to accept, process and reconcile credit card transactions in multiple currencies. He started his payment career in the legal department of American Express, where he provided legal and strategic advice to the merchant services division regarding electronic commerce matters, consumer privacy, marketing, and general commercial issues pertaining to credit card transactions. He received his B.A. Degree, M.B.A., and Juris Doctor (J.D.) from St. Johns University and his Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Trade and Business Transactions from Fordham University in New York.
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Free COVID-19 Business Survival Bootcamps
African Management Institute (AMI) is offering a FREE Virtual Business Survival Bootcamp for entrepreneurs and business owners across Africa.
This is a challenging and uncertain time for Africa’s enterprises – from solo entrepreneurs to small and medium-sized enterprises and even large companies. Many companies are preparing to work remotely and planning for the business threats posed by COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Smaller businesses, in particular, maybe unsure of how to respond and adapt in a time of reduced spending and uncertain business activity. AMI invites SMEs to join a Bootcamp focused on Financial Forecasting and Cost Management in an Economic Slowdown. It will include 1 x 90-minute webinar and 2 weeks access to online tools to support entrepreneurs as their teams, as well as online networking with entrepreneurs across the continent.
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The African Management Institute enables ambitious businesses across Africa to thrive through practical tools and training. Our programs combine online and mobile tools with in-person workshops and on-the-job practice and support. We've directly trained over 20,000 SMEs in 15 African countries, and have worked with numerous partners, including SME Finance Forum Members KCB and Equity Bank.
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‘We partnered with AMI who are skilled at giving competencies to business people...the training is very different, you may not have noted, but it is practical things that you do in your business.’’
- Naomi Ndele, KCB Bank Group Head of SME Banking and Agribusiness
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Virtual Roundtable Series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts #3: Alibaba and Ant Financial - Integrating market and financial assistance
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These weekly sessions are organized by the SME Finance Forum to provide our members with opportunities to share and learn from each other’s experiences in a continuous and real-time basis. The third roundtable of these series will be held on Thursday, April 9, 2020, at 8:00 a.m. EST, to discuss mitigation efforts by financial institutions and FinTech companies operating in China and other Asian countries.
Join us for a joint presentation by Brian Wong, Vice President of Global Initiatives at Alibaba, and Meng Yan, Global Head of International Partnerships, at Ant Financial/MYBank. The speakers will share their experiences on how their integrated financing and market development services, by leveraging platforms, helped SMEs through the COVID-19 crisis. After the presentations, the discussants will share their insights and experiences, and address questions and concerns. In particular, Microcred China will also share how leveraging lessons learned from the China experience was key to establish their crisis teams.
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Brian A. Wong is the Vice President, Global Initiatives, at Alibaba Group Member, Alibaba Academic Council. Brian is an internet executive with over 20 years of management experience in e-commerce and digital media in Greater China, SE Asia, India, the US, and Europe. He presently serves as Vice President of Globalization Initiatives, where his present scope of work focuses on creating capacity building programs for governments and entrepreneurs to demonstrate how e-commerce can promote inclusive development in emerging markets. During his fifteen-year tenure with the firm, Brian served as the Special Assistant to the Chairman for international affairs, the Executive Director of the Alibaba Global Leadership Academy (AGLA), led the company's global sales, marketing, and business development operations, and spearheaded Alibaba.com's international expansion. Brian originally joined the company as its 52nd employee. In previous roles, Brian has held executive positions at the McGraw-Hill Companies and served as Special Assistant to Mayor Willie L. Brown of San Francisco. He is also Founder and Chairman of the digital media platform RADII (www.radiichina.com), an initiative dedicated to bridging understanding between China and the world. Brian has been an advisor to various governments on e-commerce strategies and has been featured as a speaker at international conferences e.g. World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos, the B20, the ASEAN World Economic Forum, the UNCTAD E-commerce Week, was an advisor on CNBC’s TV series "Pop-up Start-up" and a technical consultant for the HBO television series "Silicon Valley". Brian is a graduate of Swarthmore College, the Johns Hopkins (SAIS)-Nanjing Center, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Swarthmore College Council on Presidential Initiatives, a former member of the Wharton School Alumni Board, and a director of the 1990 Institute. Brian was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and is a China Fellow with the Aspen Institute.
Meng Yan is the Global Head of International Partnerships, Senior Advisor to Chairman at Ant Financial Services Group. Ms. Yan is leading Ant Financial’s international cooperation and partnerships, aiming to foster joint efforts with global partners to promote digital financial inclusion. She also plays the role of senior advisor and sherpa to Eric Jing, Ant Financial Chairman on the UN Digital Financing Taskforce. Over the past two decades, Ms. Yan has accumulated solid experience in financial inclusion in emerging markets. From 2006 to 2018, she worked with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. She served as Principal Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager, responsible for IFC’s financial markets investment in Asia and global portfolio management. She has led a number of innovations in climate finance, gender finance, trade finance, and fund mobilization. She began her career with Bank of China as the Chief of Risk Management Division, Financial Institutions Department. She was also a member of the Bank of China Credit Review Committee. Ms. Yan received her B.A. and M.A. in international finance from the Central University of Finance and Economics.
In 2018, together with IFC, Alipay (Ant Financial) launched the 10x1000 Tech for Inclusion Program. The goal is to help emerging markets cultivate tech leaders to become drivers for advancing digital economic development.
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Bodo Lieberam is the Chief Executive Officer of Microcred China/Baobab. Bodo was appointed Microcred China’s CEO in March 2017. Reporting to the Baobab Group’s Chief Executive Officer, Bodo’s responsibility is to ensure that Microcred China continues reaching a dominant place in a rapidly changing market environment, by digitalizing the whole loan process and by establishing new partnerships with internet platforms. Bodo has been working for Microcred for 15 years. He was particularly involved in the creation and development of several subsidiaries, the most recent one being Microcred Tunisia, and in the optimization of the operations through digital tools. He joined Microcred in 2005 and held several CEO positions within the Microcred network. Prior to joining Microcred, Bodo was General Manager of NovoBanco SARL, Mozambique, where he supervised 6 branches and 250 employees, and President & CEO at Micro Enterprise Bank, Philippines. Prior to this, he served as a consultant for the opening of a new microfinance bank in Macedonia and was a Branch Manager of FEFAD Bank (now ProCredit Bank) in Albania on behalf of Internationale Projekt Consult GmbH, Frankfurt.
Momina Aijazuddin is IFC’s Global Head of Microfinance/ Financial Inclusion and works also as Principal Investment Officer in IFC's Financial Institution Group (FIG). She covers IFC’s microfinance investment and advisory activities globally, which exceeds cumulative investments of US$6 billion worldwide with over 300 MFIs, in addition to advisory services worth $63.7 million in 68 projects across 30 countries. This includes oversight of the work in Responsible Forum (which IFC manages for the GPFI/ G20) and leading projects in digital transformation for MSME focused Banks and MFIs. She is leading IFC’s efforts to scale up private sector commitments with strategic partners in the digital finance, microfinance and fintech space committed to achieving the World Bank Group’s Universal Financial Access by 2020. She was also a core member of the drafting team for the G20 Digital Financial Inclusion Principles. She manages the IFC Boulder strategic partnership and hosts the training for Boulder- IFC Strategic Leadership in Microfinance which has trained almost 350 leaders in the financial inclusion space. Momina brings over 25 years of investment transaction experience in financial services, microfinance, and manufacturing sectors in over 60 countries across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, MENA, and LAC regions. She has spent the last four years heavily engaged with IFC’s financial inclusion efforts in China; including leading banks and MFIs in digital transformation and fintech players. She was recognized as Global 100 top 100 women in 2019 FINTECH by Lattice80, a fintech hub. Momina has served on the Supervisory Board of the Microfinance Initiative for Asia (MIFA), a US$175 million debt fund, launched by IFC and KFW and managed by Blue Orchard and is currently on the Board of Microfinance Enhancement Facility ( MEF).
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Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts: Lessons from Asia
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is causing widespread concern and economic hardship for consumers, and SMEs across the globe. It is also causing understandable distress in institutions involved in financing SMEs. The SME Finance Forum has launched a series of weekly virtual roundtables to bring together senior executives from member institutions to share challenges and experiences with respect to crisis management and response. The roundtables will take up any and all aspects of crisis response, including issues of workforce/operations continuity, loan restructuring, navigating new government initiatives, finance and liquidity management, nonfinancial support to customers, and more.
The second virtual roundtable will be held on Thursday, April 2, 2020, at 8:00 a.m. EDT time. Join Rajeev Chalisgaonkar, Global Head, Business Banking at Standard Chartered Bank, and Henry K. Lam, Co-founder and current CEO of SimpleCredit Micro-Lending Co. Ltd (XYD.CN), who will discuss the lessons learned from China and other Asian countries, and how these institutions are mitigating COVID-19 effects. Rajeev will present relief measures, SME guarantee loans, and other actions taken across Asia through constant communication and best-practice sharing. Henry will share preparedness actions, how they are resuming business and a study case on Agri-finance during the pandemic. After the presentations, we will have Michael Makau, Deputy Director, Business Banking, at NCBA, and other members participating as discussants, who will share their experiences briefly, and start the conversation.
Speakers
Rajeev Chalisgaonkar is the Global Head of Business Banking at Standard Chartered Bank. Rajeev has more than 23 years of experience in Corporate, Commercial and Retail Banking across diverse geographies including Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India. Rajeev heads Business Banking for Standard Chartered Bank globally since April 2014. In his previous assignment, Rajeev was Head of Corporate Banking with Barclays Bank India and before that led the SME and Business Banking for Barclays Emerging Markets across 14 countries in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining Barclays, Rajeev worked for Citibank and Export-Import Bank of India holding leadership positions in Central Europe and India. Rajeev completed his MBA at IIM Calcutta. His academic achievements also include a Bachelor of Engineering (Metallurgical Engineering) from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, India.
Henry K. Lam is the Co-founder and current CEO of SimpleCredit Micro-Lending Co. Ltd (XYD.CN). Built a team of over 270 highly educated and experienced talents worldwide. SimpleCredit was established in December 2015 and was granted an online microlending license in China in June 2016. Issued a healthy loan portfolio of >RMB 8 billion for ~1 million customers from NIL in 4 years. Submitted 112 patent applications in 4 years. SimpleCredit nationwide products include online personal loan, POS consumer financing, digital supply chain, and agriculture loan. Its SME lending integrates industrial-specific knowledge, technology, and finance into a complete solution that provides a unique and convenient customer experience. Formerly worked as Head of Risk and Marketing Analytics at Enova International (NYSE:ENVA). With advanced analytical skills acquired from his Ph.D. Physics background, Henry successfully executed in-depth marketing/credit/fraud analytics and designed risk policies for multiple products across 6 countries - US, UK, Canada, Australia, Brazil, and Mexico, with a total loan portfolio size of USD 13.1 billion in 2013. Appointed by executives to launch Enova’s first China joint venture in 2014. Developed a pioneering online lending platform and risk models within 3 months. Built a local elite team from scratch, and ramped up from NIL to RMB 70 million in loans during the first year of business.
Discussants
Michael Makau is the Deputy Director, Business Banking at NCBA. An expert in Vehicle & Asset Finance and Leasing, Mr. Michael Makau has worked with four different commercial banks in Kenya and has been instrumental in setting up the functions in two of the banks. An SME practitioner who has been working with SMEs to finance and improve their businesses, Mr. Makau has been instrumental in strategy and product development for the SME sector in the last three years. He has also been in the banking industry for the last 24 years and has worked in various areas namely; Business Development, Debt Recovery, Finance and Reconciliation. He is a personal leadership trainer, certified workplace coach and author of a personal development book titled “Capture your dream through Personal Visioning’. Mr. Makau holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Mathematics and a Master’s Degree in Leadership – Business Entrepreneurship.
Syed Abdul Momen is the Head of SME Banking of BRAC Bank since 2017. Syed Abdul Momen joined BRAC Bank in August 2005. He has 13 years of multifaceted experience in the Banking Sector primarily concentrating on Technology, Operations and Business Functions. During the first 2 years in BRAC Bank, he restructured technology infrastructure and played a crucial role in the Core Banking Platform migration. In August 2007, Momen was posted in BRAC Afghanistan Bank as Chief Operating Officer (COO) on a 2-year secondment. During his tenure in Afghanistan, he looked after the bank's SME Business & expanded bank's network in three provinces. He has also contributed to the development of SME Banking Policies & Guidelines of Central Bank of Afghanistan. After his return from Afghanistan in 2009, he joined BRAC Bank's SME Division and ran a special collection project, which was the portfolio's prime concern. After successfully driving the countrywide collection initiative, he was appointed as the Head of Small Business in July 2010 and since then he is leading the industry's largest small business portfolio. His team was awarded Chairman's Excellence Award in 2012 for extraordinary business achievement. Mr. Momen started his career in ANZ Grindlays Bank in 1999 where he played an instrumental role in the migration of Core Banking Platform in the Middle East & South Asia region including Bangladesh, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Nepal, Sri Lanka after the acquisition of Grindlays Bank's operation by Standard Chartered Bank. He was also instrumental in Standard Chartered Bank's IT service delivery & business process centralization Project. Mr. Momen is a Computer Communications Graduate from Middlesex University, the UK with distinction. During his 13 years of banking career, he attended numerous seminars, training, and workshops in and out of the country.
Fangfang Jiang is IFC FIG AS Asia DFS Co-head and FIG AS Country Anchor of China and Mongolia. She joined IFC in 2012 and led the China team to promote financial inclusion through collaboration with banks, NBFIs, Fintech, Association, and government. Her clients cover the systematic banks such as the Postal Savings Bank of China, which has over 500 million customers and 40,000 branches; Leading Fintech players like Ant Financial, the financial arm of Alibaba Group; and MFIs including KB, the Largest Microfinance Bank in Pakistan. Before joining IFC in 2012, she worked as the Head of MSE in Taizhou Commercial Bank, one of the leading SME banks in China with ROE over 30%. She led a team of 300 in 30 branches across 5 different provinces in China. Her responsibilities cover strategic planning, product development, risk management, portfolio management, and staff training. From 2005 to 2010, she worked in IPC, the leading microfinance consulting firm as a bank advisor and provided capacity building to over 10 FIs in China.
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