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Training Session 1 - Supply Chain Finance Innovation
Supply Chain Finance (SCF) is an effective solution to extend access to finance to small businesses by developing a technology-driven low-risk product aimed to channel liquidity to the strategically important value chains. Automated supply chain finance programs enable FIs to better assess, measure and manage risks of extending finance to SMEs thorough the transparency of the full value chain, and visibility of the commercial and financial relationships among the parties. In addition, credit and payment risk is decreased by shifting the focus from FI-SME relationship to a tri-party FI-anchor-SME relationship, hence leveraging the trade and payment between larger anchor and SME supplier / distributor. Supply Chain Finance has a strong potential to close the finance gap in developing countries, which per IFC estimates can reach up to ~20% of the total finance gap, i.e. over $1 trillion.
To extend awareness and increase knowledge about SCF in the countries of its operations, the International Finance Corporation, together with the SME Finance Forum, is organizing a training series, covering major areas important for building successful SCF programs for financial institutions, starting on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021, from 8 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. EST for six weeks.
This is a regional event for Middle East and Africa members and IFC clients. Participants who attend the 6-week program will be issued a “certificate of attendance”. Read about the program here.
Session 1. Supply Chain Finance Defined
On February 23rd, the first session will cover the foundations of SCF: definitions, working capital analysis, benefits of SCF for corporates, SMEs and FIs; outline of the SCF products and product mapping along the supply chain; practical implications of SCF (legal, risk, credit, pricing, collateral, capital adequacy / Basel III); trends, challenges and opportunities.
Program for Session 1
Why are we focusing on Working Capital (definitions, WC ratios, cash conversion cycle, DPO, DSO, DIO)?
Introducing Supply Chain Finance (definition, benefits for key stakeholders.
SCF products: product schemes/flows, benefits and risks, and product mapping along the supply chain; difference between SCF and conventional Corporate/SME finance.
Practical implications of SCF: legal, pricing, collateral, capital adequacy / Basel III.
Trends in the international market, future challenges and opportunities.
Learning Goals
At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
Explain why both corporates and banks focus on working capital.
Define supply chain finance and the difference between loan-based and receivables purchase based SCF products.
Describe the relevance and benefit for both corporate bankers and SME bankers.
Trainer
Steven van der Hooft is the founder and CEO of Capital Chains (2015), a Dutch company specialising in consultancy and training on end-to-end working capital optimisation and financial supply chain management issues. Steven finished his Master’s degree in International Economics and Finance at Tilburg University (NL) and gained his experience in financial supply chain management through (consulting) roles at ING, Capgemini Consulting and Inchainge. Steven has nearly 15 years of working expertise in the area of supply chain finance and has been involved in the setup and roll out of working capital projects around the world. His current focus is on Supply Chain Finance (SCF) program design and implementation for both corporates and (non-bank) Financial Institutions. Recent projects include the introduction of FCIreverse, SCF implementation for SABIC, implementation of an SCF solution for Afreximbank, as well as many projects with IFC around the introduction and vendor selection for SCF solutions with regional banks in emerging countries. He is a regular speaker and moderator at conferences on Supply Chain Finance such as: SCFC Forum, BCR conferences, GTR and FCI. Steven is a father of three (young) sons and enjoys cooking and spending quality time with family and friends. He is also a sports fanatic with a long history in training and coaching field hockey.
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Open Webinar - India Stack 2.0 - Revolutionizing Credit and Market Access for 60 million MSMEs
While India is the fifth largest economy in the world, the MSME sector alone employs over 100 million people or about 40% of India’s workforce. However, current credit products are designed to service only a section of the MSMEs (600,000 of them) leaving out a whopping 60+ million MSMEs. Micro enterprises constitute 99.4% of MSMEs but have a miniscule credit share of 6%-7%, compared with 70% enjoyed by large enterprises, leaving a credit gap of over USD330 billion.
In this webinar, we will look at how digital platforms and the digital infrastructure of the India Stack 2.0 are poised to bridge the gap between these MSMEs and financial services. Specifically, we will discuss how initiatives like Open Credit Enablement Network – OCEN, and Government of India led e-Marketplace - GeM – Sahay will revolutionizing access to MSME Credit and promote access to markets. This new way to do business re-imagines an ecosystem, wherein every service provider can become a tech-enabled credit and product marketplace. Working in tandem with another initiative - the Account Aggregator (AA) framework - it allows cash-flow-based lending and last mile credit delivery to businesses and individuals at the bottom of the pyramid.
Ispirit and U GRO Capital will give an overview of these initiatives. DFIs and an Indian bank will discuss: a) how these platforms and infrastructure developed by the Indian Government will revolutionize access to credit, markets and network for 60 million MSMEs in India; and b) the role that financial institutions and DFIs can play in this endeavor.
Host & Moderator: Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
About the Speakers
Shachindra Nath is a distinguished corporate leader and the Executive Chairman & Managing Director of U GRO Capital. A university rank holder in Law from the prestigious Banaras Hindu University (BHU), his rise from the humble beginnings in the carpet industry where he witnessed the strife of small businesses to access credit to turning entrepreneur is noteworthy. In his career spanning three decades, Mr Nath has been influential in building two insurance companies, a large asset management company and an NBFC. Some of his biggest achievements include establishing new business verticals alongside foraying into successful joint ventures and partnerships for the group. He has now taken on the role of an entrepreneur by acquiring control of a listed NBFC in 2018 and subsequently rebranding it as U GRO Capital. The company simultaneously raised capital of INR 9500 million under his leadership which is believed to be one of the largest institutional capital raising feats for an NBFC. Mr Nath is known to be an influencer and a hands-on leader who trusts his instincts. At present, he is focused on the MSME credit gap in India. Unlike many other techpreneurs, he is not interested in developing a dotcom company and selling it in a few years. Instead, he wants U GRO Capital to be as technology-driven as any other fintech start-up but wants it to be a business that stands the test of time.
Sharad Sharma is the Co-founder of iSPIRT Foundation. Sharad's mantra is to lead ecosystems and companies through orbit change. He has three decades of experience in the Internet, Enterprise Software, Digital Finance and Digital Health sectors and is a prominent voice in India's technology ecosystem. Sharad is a passionate evangelist of the software product ecosystem in India. He co-founded iSPIRT Foundation, a non-profit technology think tank devoted to making India a product nation. Earlier, he Chaired NASSCOM Product Forum in its formative years and was a member of the NASSCOM Executive Council from 2009-13. Sharad co-founded Teltier Technologies Inc., a wireless infrastructure startup now part of CISCO, and is an active technology angel investor with over two dozen investments. He was also instrumental in the success of India's first IP focussed fund, India Innovation Fund. Sharad has held several senior R&D executive positions with leading technology companies, including Yahoo, VERITAS Software, Symantec, Lucent Technologies, and AT&T. Zinnov gave him the R&D Visionary Award in 2008 for his work on creating a strong MNC R&D footprint in India. Sharad is a member of SEBI's Financial and Regulatory Technology Committee. He has also served on RBI's UK Sinha MSME Committee and National Digital Payments Committee. Sharad got interested in kernel software development while doing his Electrical Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering. He started India's first Student Minicomputer Club in 1984 as served as the Chairperson of the IEEE Student Chapter.
Susan Olsen is a Senior Investment Specialist at ADB. Susan heads the Private Sector Financial Institutions Division Unit for South Asia, based in New Delhi India. Prior to joining ADB, she was Lead Specialist for the Financial Institutions Division of IDB Invest, leading debt and equity operations across Latin America and the Caribbean. Her areas of expertise in the financial sector range from microfinance, SME, Affordable Housing and green finance, and include product expertise in local currency structures, complex multi-stakeholder syndications, as well as risk sharing and guarantee products. Susan was also previously Lead Specialist for the “Opportunities for the Majority” program, a flagship initiative of the Inter American Development Bank to scale innovative private business models serving base of the pyramid markets. Susan holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, as well as Master’s Degrees from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (Canada) and the College of Europe (Belgium). She is certified by the Canadian Securities Institute.
Gaurav Malhotra is currently Director and Co-Head for Financial Services in South Asia for the CDC Group. Prior to CDC, Gaurav worked for Escorts Limited where he was Head, Business Planning and Strategy. Prior to that he was a Principal for leading strategy consulting firm BCG in India. Gaurav holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and B. Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering.
Ajay Rao is the Regional Managing Director for South Asia at U.S. International Development Finance Corporation. Ajay Rao is an experienced impact investor in emerging and frontier markets specializing in healthcare, agribusiness, and financial institutions. He also has experience in port infrastructure and small- and mid-sized enterprise-focused debt funds. Prior to his current position as the Regional Managing Director for South Asia at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), Ajay served as a Director on the DFC’s Social Enterprise Finance Team, originating and underwriting investments worldwide including Georgia, Kenya, Mongolia, Nigeria, India and Pakistan. In India, Ajay has led the accounting for seven projects totaling over $100 million in DFC loans that catalyzed over $150 million of private sector investment for Indian small businesses. Prior to DFC/OPIC Ajay was a small business banker at Citibank, N.A. Ajay is a CFA charterholder, holds a master’s degree in International Relations from the
University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College.
KVS Manian is the Whole Time Director & Member of Group Management Council at Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. Kotak has been instrumental in setting up and metamorphosing many business divisions into success stories in his two and a half decade association with the bank. He has played a pivotal role in Kotak's journey from an NBFC to a bank. Currently, Manian spearheads Corporate, Institutional and Investment Banking, and Wealth Management, and is responsible for building a high quality integrated and profitable franchise across these businesses. Under his leadership, the Corporate Bank has grown significantly both in terms of size and profits while maintaining best in class asset quality. The Investment Banking, Institutional Equities and Wealth Management businesses also continue to maintain and improve their leadership positions in the industry. Prior to his current role, Manian scripted the retail-banking narrative of Kotak. He set up the Retail Liability business from scratch, and later managed the entire consumer banking business including Consumer Asset products like Home loans, Cards, Personal Loans, Business Loans, Loans Against Property, MSME and others, some of which were launched and grown to scale in his tenure. Manian is an electrical engineer from IIT (BHU) – Varanasi, Post Graduate in Financial Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai and is a Cost and Works Accountant.
Sanjeev Goel is the Founder & Managing Head, Global Value Creation Partners. Sanjeev has over twenty-two years of emerging markets investment experience. He has invested and managed multibillion dollar investments in over 40 countries for International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group. He is skilled in emerging markets investing, operating in ambiguous environments, and developing investment decisions and strategies with imperfect information in continuously evolving macroeconomic and market conditions. Prior to founding GVCP, Sanjeev worked in the Financial Institutions Group of IFC. Among his senior roles, Sanjeev was the Global Co-Head of Equity Business and, prior to that, Portfolio Head for East Asia. Sanjeev has an MBA degree from George Washington University, B.Com. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Delhi, and professional accounting certification from the Institute of Cost & Works Accountant of India.
This webinar is organized in partnership with member U GRO Capital, a BSE listed, technology focused, small business lending platform. The company is focused on addressing capital needs of small businesses operating in select eight sectors by providing customized loan solutions.
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MEMBERS ONLY WEBINAR: PROGRAM FOR 2020
Each month the SME Finance Forum organizes webinars for its members. Members can tune in to the webinars via WebEx or the phone. The webinars are designed to be interactive and we encourage members to ask questions and engage in a discussion with the speakers.
Join us in 2020, as we host a select program with curated content and industry experts from leading banks or innovative fintechs to talk about their approach to small business finance.
January 29th: Managing SME Banking in Challenging Conditions
February 19th: Digital Banking Solutions – Platforms in SME Banking
March 25th: Open Webinar - Digital Banking Solutions – Automating the Lending Process
April 22nd: Open Webinar - Launch of Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2020 Report: An OECD Scoreboard
May 20th: Open Webinar - African Innovations in SME Finance: Mobile Financial Services
June 24th: Data Analytics in SME Banking
July 15th: Data Analytics - Part II
August 18th: Open Webinar - African Innovations in SME Finance - Part II: Payment Technology
September 16th: Supply Chain Finance Innovations: Technology Platforms - Part 1
October 7th: Supply Chain Finance Innovations: Opportunities for Banks - Part 2
November 18th: Trends in Blockchain: Driving the Growth of SME Finance
December 2nd: Open Webinar - Credit Analytics: Innovations in Evaluating SME Credit Risk
If you are interested in learning more about the webinars please contact Jessica Alfaro at jalfaro2@ifc.org
*Schedule subject to change based on the availability of speakers
** Open Webinar recordings may be accessed on our Vimeo Channel in this link.
** Past webinar recordings are available to SME Finance Forum members on our Vimeo Private Channel (password-protected)
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Open Webinar - Credit Analytics: Innovations in Evaluating SME Credit Risk
Assessing the credit risk of SMEs is one of the most challenging tasks for creditors as the financial information of SMEs is not always available or complete. Strained economic conditions from COVID-19 pandemic and disrupted supply chains put further pressure on businesses, especially SMEs, thus increasing the potential risk of credit default. New enhancements to credit analytics can minimize the impact on risk by simplifying the credit risk assessment workflow.
In this webinar, we will look at innovations in credit analytics to help financial institutions assess risk and the challenges they encounter during the model development and usage. We will discuss the practical applications of credit analytics and how banks can incorporate existing data like private company data, company firmographics, and other performance benchmarks into innovative and new credit models and scores. In these challenging times, financial institutions will learn new practical uses of their data to improve their credit tools and expand lending to SMEs.
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Hourn Thy is the Head of Operations of the SME Finance Forum. Hourn facilitates the delivery of the SME Finance Forum objectives and activities including the implementation of G20 SME finance challenge and knowledge management efforts. He has over 10 years’ experience in business development, SME capacity building and financial sector development. Prior to joining the Forum, he managed the IFC Access to Finance program in Cambodia and Lao PDR for 5 years. He has a Masters degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Ecôle Supérieure de Commerce de Paris in France and in International Business Management from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand.
About the Moderator
Thomas DeLuca is a member of the SME Finance Forum Advisory Board. Tom has over 25 years of experience in digital transformation and technology innovation in merchant payments, consumer banking, micro & small business (MSME) financial solutions, microfinance, financial inclusion, digital security, and fraud prevention. Tom was most recently a co-founder of AMP Credit Technologies, a fintech providing loan origination automation technology to banks. Prior to that, he co-founded Planet Payment, one of the first multicurrency payment processors to merchant acquiring banks, which floated on NASDAQ and was subsequently taken private. Before his entrepreneurial initiatives, Tom was an attorney at American Express, where he provided legal and strategic advice to the merchant services division on general commercial issues pertaining to credit card transaction acceptance. Tom received his B.A., J.D. and M.B.A. from St. Johns University and his LL.M. in international trade and business transactions from Fordham University, all in New York.
About the Speakers
Hrvoje Tomicic is a Quantitative Modelling Analyst within the Analytical Development Grout at S&P Global Market Intelligence, where he is developing quantitative models for credit risk. Prior, he worked as a Supervision Analyst of Internal Models at the European Central Bank. Hrvoje holds a Master in Applied Mathematics and a Master in Models and Methods for Quantitative Economics from the Sorbonne University of Paris.
Pascal Hartwig works for Market Strategy - Private Company Data at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He as a Credit Specialist in April 2017 and prior to joining S&P Global Market Intelligence he worked for four years in the Oil & Gas Industry, developing Credit Risk Assessment frameworks and participated in Structured Credit Transactions. In his current position Pascal is in charge of the Go-to-market strategy for private company data.
Paula Leynes Felipe is Principal Operations Officer within the FIG AS Asia team, IFC. Paula is based in Singapore. As the Regional Lead for Business Risk and Integrated Solutions, Paula oversees a strengthened Risk Management Practice Group, with the aim of supporting clients in managing their portfolio and operations during and post COVID.
Beatrice Adhiambo Ogolla is the Head of Retail Credit Risk at NCBA Bank, Nairobi Kenya. She has experience spanning over 13 years in Consumer Credit , SME/Business Banking and Asset finance underwriting. She has been instrumental in policy, process and product reviews and implementation for the bank.
This webinar is organized in partnership with S&P Global Market Intelligence, an American publicly traded corporation with primary areas of business in financial information and analytics. For more information, please contact: Jessica Alfaro
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Members Only Webinar - Trends in Blockchain: Driving the Growth of SME Finance
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Blockchain is no longer just about Bitcoin. With the rapid development of enterprise-grade solutions, we're witnessing a proliferation of blockchain use cases in the banking industry. In this webinar, we will look at industry-leading technologies supported by Standard Chartered, Goldman Sachs and Tencent. Outstanding speakers will share their in-depth insights into how blockchain can help financial institutions and other partners reduce costs, mitigate risks, automate workflows and drive the growth of SMEs.
What you will learn
The objective of the session is to understand how blockchain has transformed SME finance. Key questions to address:
• What technological changes and innovations are emerging in blockchain solutions?
• How is the technology impacting SME finance? In particular, in supply chain finance, payment and credit?
• What are the technological and regulatory changes in the blockchain sector over the past decade? What lies in the future?
• How banks and other financial institutions and fintech can work together to lower the entry barrier of blockchain-based applications? What are the obstacles impeding the formation of partnerships? How to remove these roadblocks?
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Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
About the Moderator
Lechi Zhang is a consultant at the SME Finance Forum of IFC. He has extensive experience assisting various fintech and blockchain companies in devising their business strategies. Prior to IFC, Lechi worked briefly in investment banking and private equity. He holds a Master's degree in Financial Policy from Cornell University and has acquired certified skills of developing blockchain network from IBM.
About the Speakers
Ivy Luu is the Director of Liquidity Management Solutions at nanopay Corporation. Ivy is currently leading the development of a real-time cash and liquidity management product for banks and their business clients, and is a leading expert in the areas of treasury products, cash management and real-time liquidity. She is a Certified Treasury Professional and former VP in Treasury & Trade Solutions at Citibank, Ivy Luu has accumulated nearly two decades of payment and treasury experience.
Dengfeng Zhang is the Assistant President of Linklogis, a leading fin-tech company based in Shenzhen. He is currently responsible for product development and innovations at Linklogis. Dengfeng Zhang has extensive academic and practical experience in supply chain management and finance. He got his PhD degree in business administration from the University of Iowa. Prior to joining Linklogis, a leading fin-tech company based in Shenzhen, he worked for PingAn bank, where he led the development of online supply chain financing products. He is currently the assistant president of Linklogis, responsible for product development and innovations.
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