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Members Only Webinar - Supply Chain Finance Innovations: Technology Platforms - Part I
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With the digitization of the supply chain, several technologies have emerged, connecting new players and making lending faster and more efficient. In this webinar, we will look at trends in supply chain finance, and how SCF platforms can utilize AI, machine learning, and other technologies to help financial institutions and other partners reduce risk, lend more efficiently and more fully integrate operations from customers to suppliers. Three supply chain platforms that operate across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, will share best practices and showcase how they leverage new digital supply chain business models, utilizing innovative infrastructure and smart data for faster, cheaper, and more efficient credit solutions.
What you will learn
The objective of the session is to understand how supply chain finance has been transformed by the application of technology and how supply chain finance can be digitized. Key questions to address:
• What technological changes and innovations are emerging in supply chain finance?
• How are these technologies impacting supply chain finance?
• How has the technological and digital marketplace for SCF financing changed over the past decade? What lies in the future?
• Is technology and automation helping to lower costs and increasing efficiency to optimize the working capital for SMEs in the value chains?
• How can technology be leveraged to move down market to target more SMEs and to help them become more formally integrated in the value chain?
• How are onboarding practices, risk assessment models and new product offered changing because of new innovations and technology?
Host
• Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
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Margarete Biallas is a Senior Officer at IFC. Margarete Biallas builds IFC’s Digital Financial Services practice with an active portfolio of 120+ advisory services clients. Previously, Ms. Biallas was responsible for IFC’s financial markets advisory work in Vietnam, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Thailand, where she supported some of the earliest mobile financial services initiatives such as ANZ’s subsidiary WING. Before joining IFC, Ms. Biallas held different positions with KfW including as Senior Risk Manager, Credit Officer, Lead Investment Officer for global microfinance funds as well as investment officer roles in KfW’s Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa departments, leading investments in financial institutions. Ms. Biallas started her career with a consulting firm, focusing on privatization and SME development. She holds a Master‘s Degree in Economics from Hochschule fuer Wirtschaft und Politik in Hamburg, Germany, and a BSocSc from University of Cape Town, South Africa. Ms. Biallas has set up two successful ventures providing education to young children in Germany.
About the Speakers
Claudia Perri is the Regional Commercial Director MENA at HPD Software. Claudia has over 15 years of sales and international business development background. Currently enjoying an exciting and very active role, as Regional Commercial Director covering Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa for HPD Software, the multi-national company and leader in the industry of factoring and all asset based lending software and working with the largest financial organizations globally. In her role at HPD, Claudia is passionate to help banks and other financial institutions grow their business potential, renew their customer experience with HPD LendScape platform and enable an effective digital transformation and business process reengineering. She has been also working on a number of projects contributing effectively to introducing factoring and SCF and other commercial finance products in developing countries. Challenged by the fast-changing environment, apart from managing sales, in her previous roles she was involved in factoring software product development, training, project management and continuously improving customer’ support and satisfaction. Before dedicating to the factoring industry in 2009, her business development work was related to content management and online information publishing for Academic and Medical sectors, thus offering ease of access to new educational sources in Greece. Claudia is holding a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science for Business Management from Romanian American University as well as an Accountant and Statistician Certificate from an Economics College.
Vahid Monadjem is the founder and CEO of Nomanini, a pioneering fintech platform for the informal retail ecosystem. Nomanini connects merchants, distributors, and service providers, integrating payments, working capital, and data analytics to unlock the latent potential of Africa’s economy. Vahid is a trained engineer with innovation and product design experience. Before establishing Nomanini, he was McKinsey&Company’s Global Fellow for Emerging Market Product Development. He has worked in Africa, South East Asia, North America and Europe with clients that include manufacturers, state-owned utilities, and telecommunications companies. Vahid holds a BSc degree in Electromechanical Engineering as well as a Bachelor of Commerce degree majoring in Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management from the University of Cape Town.
Ken So is the Founder & CEO of Flowcast, an SF-based fintech startup that provides AI solution for financial institutions to power smarter credit decisions. Prior to founding Flowcast, Ken has over 20 years of experience in business development, M&A, and engineering. He closed over $4B in M&A deals and strategic partnerships in his career. He started his career as a hardware engineer and becoming one of the inventors of the world’s first 3D non-volatile memory chip. He received his MBA from the University of California Berkeley, Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Ken holds 13 patents to date and has spoken at numerous conferences around the world.
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Open Webinar - African Innovations in SME Finance - Part II: Payment Technology
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In our May webinar on African Innovations in SME Finance, we discussed mobile financial services and how sub-Saharan Africa is a leader in MFS innovation, adoption, and usage. With the expanding interest and capabilities in digital money in the region, many new financial and non-financial players are investing in mobile-based payment businesses, while other mobile money providers are offering bill payments in order to enhance their customer experience. We will examine the rapidly growing enthusiasm for a broader range of digital commerce experiences, focusing on payment technologies. Online payment technologies are critical to help small businesses digitalize and accept payments online. These customer-centric digital tools, can help SMEs both collect payments as well as offer digital financial services such as credit, utilizing payment history and other alternative data.
In this webinar, we will hear from JumiaPay, an online marketplace in Africa, M-Pesa/VodafoneTanzania, leaders in mobile money and payments, as well as online payment platform Paystack, who are leading payment technology in this region.
Host: Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
About the Speakers
Juan Seco is the VP Consumer Financial Services at JumiaPay, the payment and financial services venture of Jumia, the leading online platform in Africa. He has been with Jumia since 2015, when he joined as the CFO for Kenya. Since 2017 he has been working with JumiaPay to oversee the expansion and deployment of the service in Jumia’s key markets and avail payment and credit solutions to the company’s customers and merchants. Prior to Jumia, Juan spent his career at PwC and KPMG working in Transaction Services, where he was a Director in New York providing financial due diligence services and M&A advisory for large Corporates and PE Funds. Juan holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University where he majored in Finance and International Business.
Amandine Lobelle is currently Head of Business Operations at Paystack, an online payments company based in Lagos, Nigeria, which helps merchants to collect payments from their customers. Previously, Amandine was an investor at IFC (the private sector investment arm of the World Bank), where she invested in early stage FinTech companies in Sub-Saharan Africa. She was based in Washington, Lagos, and Johannesburg. She started her career in investment banking, working in M&A for Morgan Stanley based in London and Johannesburg.
Amandine holds a BA in Business & Economics from Trinity College, Dublin, and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University.
Epimack Mbeteni is the M-Commerce Director at Vodacom Tanzania PLC responsible for strategic planning, Business development and financial management of M-Pesa . M-Pesa is the leading mobile money service in Tanzania with a customer base of more than 11 million Customers. Epimack Mbeteni is a seasoned executive with over 15 years of experience in strategic and operational roles with leading Telecoms operators in Tanzania. His experience cuts across mobile money, IT operations, billing project management to list a few. Epimack has successfully completed Vodacom Advanced Executive Programme through the Gordon Institute of Business Science - University of Pretoria, and holds a Degree in Computer Engineering & Information Technology from the University of Dar es Salaam.
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After the end of the roundtable, members can join the lively conversation with:
• Speaker : Amandine (Paystack) and Epimack (MPesa), with SME Finance Forum moderator Matthew Gamser, staying in the main room.
• Speaker Juan (JumiaPay), with SME Finance Forum moderator Jessica Alfaro, register here>
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Members Only Webinar - Data Analytics - Part II
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The SME Finance Forum is hosting a two-session webinar series on Data Analytics. Increasingly, the use and analysis of data are critical for banks to improve efficiency, reduce risk, increase profitability, and retain customers. In these series, we will look at how banks and financial institutions can use big data and advanced analytics to make smarter decisions in SME banking.
Data Analytics Session #2: Data Trends in Analytics, Risk, and Privacy in a Post-COVID 19 World
The COVID-19 pandemic has created new challenges in SME banking: while the demand for business loans has increased, financial institutions have faced disruptions in normal business operations, making small business lending even more difficult. Lack of credit data has long been one of the major obstacles to individuals and SME financing in developing countries, but financial institutions are now leveraging alternative data including transactional (payments) data, behavioral data, and social media data to determine capacity and willingness to repay loans. But, there are risks in utilizing alternative sources like data inaccuracies, uninformed consumer consent, potential for discrimination, and heightened exposure to cyber risks. How can financial institutions balance the use of responsible data use to enhance access to finance for MSMEs as well as data privacy, consumer protection, and cybersecurity?
In this session, speakers SME Finance Forum member jumo.world, a South African mobile financial services platform, VIDA, a digital identity startup, and from the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA), will discuss new trends in data as the speakers reflect on how data is used to help financial institutions continue their business operations digitally and make smarter decision making in SME banking.
What you will learn
• Innovations in governance on AI and data.
• How companies are promoting industry adoption of AI and data analytics.
• Specific AI and data science capabilities developed.
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After the end of the webinar tomorrow, members can join the lively conversation with:
• Speaker: Niki Santo Luhur, VIDA with SME Finance Forum moderator: Lesly Goh
• Speaker: Yeong Zee Kin (Zeek), IMDA with SME Finance Forum moderator: Matt Gamser
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• Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
Moderator
Lesly Goh is a Senior Advisor, former World Bank Director, and Chief Technology Officer. She is a Fellow at Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) Judge Business School and Senior Fellow at National University of Singapore (NUS) Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Lesly is a Professor of Practice at ZheJiang International Business School (ZIBS). She frequently gives lectures on Data Governance, FinTech and Digital Government Transformation. Her expertise is in leveraging Cloud technology to deliver agile solutions at scale for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) at the intersection of technology and policy frameworks. For almost 30 years, her experience on FinTech, RegTech, GovTech spans across both the private and public sectors. Lesly’s experience covers a broad spectrum ranging from Capital Markets, Retail Banking, Commercial Banking, Asset Management, Development Banks and Financial Data Providers. She has worked extensively on the practical application of Disruptive Technology such as Blockchain, AI and IoT. A few strategic initiatives where she applied Disruptive Technology to address Development challenges: Implementation of Bond issuance on Blockchain, which raised 110M AUD on Aug 23, 2018. Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Famine – project was announced at the United Nation General Assembly on Sept 23, 2018. Her personal mission is to empower Women and Girls to achieve the highest potential with Technology as the Equalizer. Here is her TEDxTalk and her story: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leaving-microsoft-empower-women-change-world-lesly-goh/. She was featured in the GovInsider Report 2019: Women Leaders in Government https://govinsider.asia/data/lesly-goh-senior-technology-advisor-world-bank-women-in-govtech-special-report-2019/. Her blogs: https://blogs.worldbank.org/team/lesly-goh
About the Speakers
Buhle Goslar is the Africa & Pakistan CEO for jumo.world. Buhle has held senior leadership roles for over 18 years in the financial services, technology, retail, and tourism sectors. She has worked across sub-Saharan Africa, as well as in Asian and European markets. A certified international retail banker, she also holds a BCom Marketing Degree from UNISA and an Executive MBA from the GSB at the University of Cape Town, Buhle has also completed post-graduate management programmes in Inclusive Finance, Digital Finance and Social Impact at Harvard Business School, TUFTS Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and Oxford Saïd Business School, respectively.
Niki Santo Luhur is the CEO / Founder of VIDA, a digital identity startup; Chairman & Co-founder of the Indonesia Fintech Association; Founder and Former Chairman-CEO of Kartuku, a payments technology company; Former Special Advisor to the Indonesian Minister of ICT for Fintech and Financial Inclusion; Endeavor Entrepreneur; Operating Advisor Monk's Hill Ventures. VIDA is a digital identity network that provides secure and simple ways to prove who you are anywhere, anytime. VIDA empowers individuals and institutions with the ability to effortlessly control their most valuable information – their data and identity – while protecting this private information with the highest standards of security. Indonesia Fintech Association's ("AFTECH") vision is to drive financial inclusion through digital financial services. AFTECH focuses on policy advocacy and has 350+ members. In 2019, AFTECH was appointed by Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK, Indonesian Financial Services Authority) as a Self-Regulatory Organization under OJK's Digital Financial Services Innovation Group, responsible for overseeing market conduct and the development of industry standards.
Yeong Zee Kin is Assistant Chief Executive (Data Innovation and Protection Group) of the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) and Deputy Commissioner of the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC). In his capacity as Assistant Chief Executive (Data Innovation and Protection Group), Zee Kin oversees IMDA’s Artificial Intelligence and Data Industry development strategy. This is one of four frontier technology areas IMDA has identified for its transformational potential for a Digital Economy. The other three are cybersecurity, the Internet of Things, and immersive media. In his role as an AI and data analytics champion, Zee Kin’s work includes developing forward-thinking governance on AI and data, driving a pipeline of AI talent, promoting industry adoption of AI and data analytics, as well as building specific AI and data science capabilities in Singapore. As the Deputy Commissioner of PDPC, Zee Kin oversees the administering and enforcement of the Personal Data Protection Act (2012). His key responsibilities include managing the formulation and implementation of policies relating to the protection of personal data, as well as the issuing of enforcement directions for organizational actions. He also spearheads the public and sector-specific educational and outreach activities, to raise both awareness and compliance in organizations and individuals in personal data protection.
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Members Only Webinar - Data Analytics in SME Banking in India - Part I
The SME Finance Forum is hosting a two-session webinar series on Data Analytics. Increasingly, the use and analysis of data are critical for banks to improve efficiency, reduce risk, increase profitability, and retain customers. In these series, we will look at how banks and financial institutions can use big data and advanced analytics to make smarter decisions in SME banking.
Data Analytics Session #1: Using alternative data and new-gen analytics model for enabling SME lending in India
In this session, we will look at a case study of SME lending in India and hear from two leaders in data analytics: member Experian, an international credit reporting agency, and member CreditEnable, which operates the largest SME credit marketplace in India.
The webinar will build on previous presentations from Experian on data: from turning Big Data into business advantages for banks and using advanced analytics for SME credit scores. The firm will share what’s new in advanced analytics and highlight how they use traditional and alternative data to improve SME lending in India. CreditEnable, applies proprietary data analytics, deep learning, and AI to build solutions to the world’s biggest financial challenges. They will share how data can be used in automating parts of the credit assessment process for Indian SMEs, as well as helping financial institutions to reduce risk and improve asset quality.
About the Speakers
Host
• Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
Speakers
Salil Chugh is the Head of Analytics CoE, Asia Pacific at Experian, an FTSE 50 organisation & global leader in the provision of information, analytical tools & marketing services to organisations & consumers. The Analytics CoE at Experian Asia Pacific is enabling clients by providing analytics and AI products and services for leveraging their own data and other data. Currently based in Singapore, Salil has more than 17 years of diverse experience of Analytics, Risk management, Mobile Products, Digital Banking, and Payments. Salil has hands-on experience in scaling digital platforms, building digital products, implementing Analytics, risk, and marketing strategies. He joined Experian in 2017. Prior to the current role, he worked with Experian as a Senior Consultant with the Global Consulting Practise working with Clients in Asia Pacific on portfolio and credit strategies. Prior to Experian, Salil worked with a large private bank in India for 15 years across multiple roles in Mobile Banking, Digital Payments, Unsecured Products, Cross-Sell Policy, and Analytics. He has extensive experience in scaling digital platforms, building digital products, managing credit portfolios as well as running digital and analytics teams.
Nadia Sood is the Founder and Group CEO of CreditEnable, an award-winning global credit insights and technology solutions company that applies proprietary data analytics, deep learning and AI to build solutions to the world’s biggest financial challenges. Nadia is passionate about entrepreneurship and helping SMEs grow. Prior to setting up CreditEnable and over her more than 20 year career, Nadia had founded and built a number of successful businesses including Impact Investment Partners LLP, the first FCA authorized Impact Investment Management and Advisory Services Firm in the UK. IIP invests into transformative technology-driven businesses that deliver significant social impact and advises institutional investors on how to deploy their capital for commercial and social return. Over the course of her career, Nadia has successfully executed and managed complex investments, ranging in size from several million US$ to several billion US$, the largest of which was the establishment of an US$ 8 billion joint venture with Tata Power in India. Nadia has held a number of senior positions including Executive Vice President of SN Power, an emerging markets renewable energy private equity investor, which she helped grow from US$260 million in AUM to US$1.75 billion in AUM and where she was a Director on the boards of more than 10 companies in India, Nepal and Chile. She was also Director of Strategic Health and Wellness, Nestlé where she helped transition Nestlé from a food and beverage company to a Nutrition Health and Wellness company and a member of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s speechwriting’s team. Nadia has received many awards including Techpreneurs Women in Tech Awards (2019), and was ranked one of the top 25 leaders under 30 in Norway (2007) and one of the top 40 leaders under 40 in Norway (2009) by two of Norway’s top finance publications. Nadia holds a BSFS from the School of Foreign Service at The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a Masters In International Affairs from Columbia University, New York where she was awarded the prestigious Foreign Language and Area Studies Scholarship by the US Department of Education. She is a member of the Young Presidents Organisation (https://www.ypo.org/about-ypo/), a global platform for 27,000 chief executives in more than 130 countries. She is fluent in English, French and speaks Norwegian.
Ashish Badaya is the Head of Analytics CoE – India at Experian, a FTSE 50 organisation & global leader in the provision of information, analytical tools & marketing services to organisations & consumers. The Analytics CoE in India enables BFSI clients by providing advanced analytics products and consulting services on various aspects of customer lifecycle management. The ability to use bureau data along with alternate data is the key capability differentiator for the team. Ashish has 14 years of work experience in core analytics and has worked across differ aspects of banking functions – Collections, Risk Management, Securitization & Marketing. Ashish has extensively worked on retail, wealth and SME products within Banking domain. He joined Experian in 2017 has successfully executed large scale business transformation projects in retail and SME lending. Some of the critical projects include defining digital customer origination journeys and underwriting models for SME marketplace players as well as retail lending NBFCs in India. Prior to Experian, Ashish has worked in Middle East market with 2 large MNC Banks on Marketing Analytics as well as Collection. He played an instrumental role in digitization and setting up the analytics team for the largest private bank in UAE. Ashish holds a master’s degree in economics from Delhi School of Economics. He did his graduation in economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) and was also awarded a prestigious national scholarship.
Markandey Upadhyay is the Senior Vice President at Axis Bank. Markandey heads analytics for Retail Bank. He has brought a paradigm shift in risk management practices of the bank by building new AI-based risk model, risk tech stacks, and integrating this ecosystem for straight-through decision making. He has a Master’s degree in Advanced Computer Science with specialization in “Natural Computation” and is passionate about making banking intelligent, intuitive and instant through usage of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, BIG Data analytics and API Banking.
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Open Webinar - African Innovations in SME Finance - Mobile Financial Services
The use of mobile financial services (MFS) has grown exponentially over the last 10 years, making sub-Saharan Africa a leader in MFS innovation, adoption, and usage. Banks and financial institutions are building digital financial services ecosystems and partnering with telcos and fintechs to provide financial services like online deposits and withdrawals, money transfers, merchant payments, loans and savings products amongst others to reach both the ‘last mile’ and scaling up to serve SMEs. By utilizing transactions and other data, mobile products offer affordable, simple and innovative solutions, increasing access to financial services for millions across the continent. According to the GSMA, West Africa is the 2nd largest region with mobile money accounts. In this webinar, we will hear from members EcoBank, Jumo, and the South African multinational mobile telecommunications company, MTN, who are leading MFS in this region.
Members and non-members are welcome to participate!
Speakers
Jeremy Quianoo is the Country Operations Manager for Capital at JUMO Ghana. His role entails managing the relationships with financial service partners in-country. Jeremy has a passion for the execution of innovation in digital financial services to advance financial inclusion in emerging markets. Prior to joining JUMO, he worked the majority of his career in a tier-one Ghanaian bank where he was the manager for retail strategy, digital products and served concurrently as a scrum master in the bank's digital office.
Martin Vogdt is the Chief Product & Platform Officer at Jumo. Martin has considerable expertise in building rapidly scaling digital start-ups across Asia, Europe, and Africa, with a focus on user experience and technology in large e-commerce companies in developing markets. Prior to joining JUMO, Martin held several positions at Rocket Internet and was an early team member at Lazada (now Alibaba Group) and Home24, followed by senior positions at Jumia Group, Africa’s biggest e-commerce venture.
Owureku Asare, Head, Digital Solutions, Group Commercial Banking at Ecobank with oversight of 33 Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to his current role, he was the Regional Head, Consumer Distribution for Ecobank Anglophone West Africa. He also led digital financial services initiatives in more than 15 countries in Central, East and West Africa. He is a seasoned subject matter expert in financial services with over 17 years of experience in large-scale product management, Sales and Distribution, Credit Structuring, Structured Trade, Cash Management, and Relationship Management. He is a specialist in Digital Financial Services with a focus on Financial Inclusion, Payment innovation, Issuing and Acquiring. Owureku is an international speaker on Digital Financial Services with speaking engagements in Africa and Asia. He currently serves as a Board member of Diabetes Youth Care and a Member of Rotary Club of Accra La-East with an objective to serve above self. He also serves as a Director of Enovate Advertising, Impact Food Hub and Financial Inclusion Forum Africa.
William Danso-Abeam is the segment Head, Direct Banking for Ecobank Ghana Limited and leads the execution of the bank's strategy for the Mass Market, driving self-service through digital and convenient channels. With 13 years in Retail Banking, William started from retail banking operations and evolved into Direct Banking via Digital channels. As the segment Head, Direct Banking, he led Ecobank Ghana Ltd to launch the very first Digital lending offer within the Ecobank Group which has disbursed over 4.1m loans valued at $227m to over 1.2m customers within the first 10 months. Prior to joining Ecobank Ghana Ltd, William worked with the International Community School (ICS), Ghana, as the Resource and Finance Manager.
Eli Hini is the General Manager of MobileMoney Limited. Mr. Eli Hini is the General Manager for MobileMoney Limited, the MTN Ghana subsidiary responsible for mobile financial services, and is responsible for driving strategy, business development, innovation, and relevant operations of MTN’s Mobile Money business. Prior to Eli’s appointment as General Manager, he was the Commercial Senior Manager for MTN Mobile Money, a role he held for approximately seven years. Eli was instrumental in setting up Mobile Money services in Ghana and growing the subscriber base, transaction volumes, and value. He also led the MTN Mobile Money team to receive ISO certification (ISO/IEC 12007: 2013 certification) in January 2016 and the GSMA Mobile Money Certification in November 2019. Eli Hini is a Chartered Marketer with 20 years’ experience and has also held leadership positions in Unilever Ghana Limited and Coca-Cola Bottling Company Limited. Eli Hini holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and a postgraduate diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK. Eli serves on the board of MobileMoney Limited.
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Open Webinar - African Innovations in SME Finance: Mobile Financial Services
The use of mobile financial services (MFS) has grown exponentially over the last 10 years, making sub-Saharan Africa a leader in MFS innovation, adoption, and usage. Banks and financial institutions are building digital financial services ecosystems and partnering with telcos and fintechs to provide financial services like online deposits and withdrawals, money transfers, merchant payments, loans and savings products amongst others to reach both the ‘last mile’ and scaling up to serve SMEs. By utilizing transactions and other data, mobile products offer affordable, simple and innovative solutions, increasing access to financial services for millions across the continent. According to the GSMA, West Africa is the 2nd largest region with mobile money accounts. In this webinar, we will hear from members EcoBank, Jumo, and the South African multinational mobile telecommunications company, MTN, who are leading MFS in this region.
Speakers
Arnold Kavaarpuo is the Country Director for Jumo in Ghana. Arnold is a financial inclusion evangelist, fintech enthusiast, and published author. In his role as Country Director of JUMO Ghana he set up the initial operation and has since grown the business to about US$1 billion in disbursements values. Arnold is passionate about driving game-changing financial services with a focus on new delivery channels, product design and value optimization. He has experience across a variety of channels including branch- and partnerships based with Mobile Network Operators, commercial banks and insurance companies. Prior to JUMO, Arnold headed up the Unsecured Lending Unit of afb Ghana Plc where he oversaw the development and growth of a 100% unsecured loan product for the informal sector and a direct-debit-only payday loan product. In 2011, he was a key member of the team that developed and launched the first bancassurance product in Ghana. Arnold holds a BA in Geography and Rural Development and an MBA in Global Business. He is currently studying towards a Doctor in Business Administration with a research focus on Inclusive Innovations.
Martin Vogdt is the Chief Product & Platform Officer at Jumo. Martin has considerable expertise in building rapidly scaling digital start-ups across Asia, Europe and Africa, with a focus on user experience and technology in large e-commerce companies in developing markets. Prior to joining JUMO, Martin held several positions at Rocket Internet and was an early team member at Lazada (now Alibaba Group) and Home24, followed by senior positions at Jumia Group, Africa’s biggest e-commerce venture.
Owureku Asare, Head, Digital Solutions, Group Commercial Banking at Ecobank with oversight of 33 Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to his current role, he was the Regional Head, Consumer Distribution for Ecobank Anglophone West Africa. He also led digital financial services initiatives in more than 15 countries in Central, East and West Africa. He is a seasoned subject matter expert in financial services with over 17 years of experience in large-scale product management, Sales and Distribution, Credit Structuring, Structured Trade, Cash Management, and Relationship Management. He is a specialist in Digital Financial Services with a focus on Financial Inclusion, Payment innovation, Issuing and Acquiring. Owureku is an international speaker on Digital Financial Services with speaking engagements in Africa and Asia. He currently serves as a Board member of Diabetes Youth Care and a Member of Rotary Club of Accra La-East with an objective to serve above self. He also serves as a Director of Enovate Advertising, Impact Food Hub and Financial Inclusion Forum Africa.
William Danso-Abeam is the segment Head, Direct Banking for Ecobank Ghana Limited and leads the execution of the bank's strategy for the Mass Market, driving self-service through digital and convenient channels. With 13 years in Retail Banking, William started from retail banking operations and evolved into Direct Banking via Digital channels. As the segment Head, Direct Banking, he led Ecobank Ghana Ltd to launch the very first Digital lending offer within the Ecobank Group which has disbursed over 4.1m loans valued at $227m to over 1.2m customers within the first 10 months. Prior to joining Ecobank Ghana Ltd, William worked with the International Community School (ICS), Ghana, as the Resource and Finance Manager.
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