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SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - 2022 October Monthly Session
The “SME Finance Virtual Marketplace” is an online match-making platform that promotes partnership and collaboration between members of the SME Finance Forum, especially financial institutions, fintech companies and development finance institutions/ investors. The virtual Marketplace is powered by GlobalLinker, an AI powered ‘Digital Ecosystem’ offering SMEs a range of services to build digital presence including e-commerce.
How does the Marketplace operate?
To participate in the marketplace, each institution must have:
An institutional profile (company profile and products/services offering)
A personal profile (individuals representing the companies)
Individuals on the Marketplace can explore products and services available (investment products, advisory services, technology solutions...etc. ) and reach out to one another to discuss potential collaboration and partnership.
To learn how to set up a company profile, a listing and an individual profile, please read the User Manual in this link.
Feel free to let us know should you have any questions or need any assistance to smefinanceforum@ifc.org
October Marketplace Session
This monthly marketplace session, scheduled on Wednesday, October 5th from 8 am - 9:00 EDT, will feature a series of institutions who will present their products/services.
Following the presentations, participants will have the opportunities to reach out directly to the presenting institutions to make inquiries or explore partnership opportunities.
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COMPANIES PITCHING
ClickPesa, a Stellar ecosystem company
ClickPesa provides digital business tools with payment services for SMEs doing business with or in East Africa.
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization founded in 2014 to support the development and growth of the open-source Stellar network. SDF and Stellar seek to unlock the world’s economic potential by making money more fluid, markets more open, and people more empowered. It lets people participate in a worldwide, stable, financial network regardless of where they live.
International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation
The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) is a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group. It was established with the primary objective of advancing trade among Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member countries, which would ultimately contribute to the overarching goal of improving the socio-economic conditions of the people across the world.
Gojo & Company Inc
Gojo & Company, Inc. is an enabler of financial inclusion for unserved and underserved communities, investing in and partnering with financial service providers around the world. The company is headquartered in Tokyo and has group companies in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, India and Tajikistan.
Maalexi
Maalexi is a USA-based trade and finance digital eco-system that facilitates both cross-border trade as well as financing of food and agricultural products. On Maalexi, importers can buy food and agricultural products wholesale directly from small and medium-sized suppliers, and exporters can get access to export finance for trades with credible buyers.
FeenPop
FeenPop is a Pan-European disruptive technology Company with finance expertise.They develop a unique, 100% digital, blockchain based crypto-assets trading platform and services open to professional investors in order to provide immediate, easier and cheaper liquidity to all types of businesses. The result provides Agile, Costly Effective and Flexible Hub of business processes execution value for all stakeholders involved within a B2B Transaction Services and Operations Management Platform (PaaS).
PRESENTERS
Azam is CEO & Co-Founder at Maalexi. He has extensive cross-industry experience of more than two decades as head and senior advisor on supply-chain management having worked with world-renowned agricultural giants like Olam and been involved in undertaking supply chain financing of large vertically integrated Agricultural MNCs. He has delivered and advised several trade supply-chain infrastructure development projects with government agencies and free-zone & port development authorities like JAFZ which is part of DP World. He has advised and worked for supply-chain financing with multilateral and commercial banks which include Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, and Credit Europe Bank. His work in technology and strategic consulting has included mentoring small businesses with Stanford University's Stanford Institute of Innovation in Developing Economies and as an expert advisor to top-tier consulting firms. He has a doctorate from the prestigious SDA Bocconi School of Management (Italy), and is now involved in expanding his fintech, with ESG deeply embedded in its business model, to help small businesses by mitigating trade risks and getting access to finance for their cross-border trade in food and agriculture products.
Taejun Shin cofounded Gojo in 2014 and has led the company's growth until today as the CEO. Before Gojo, Taejun worked at Morgan Stanley and Unison Capital as an investment professional. To deal with an enormous number of investment projects, Taejun studied programming and automated many of the financial models, some of which are used even today. While working in the sector, Taejun founded Living in Peace, an NGO, in 2007, and created the first microfinance investment fund in Japan's history. He led building 3 children's homes in Japan and providing scholarship support for kids under the alternative care system. Taejun played a crucial role in reforming Japan's children's welfare policy, especially in improving the living conditions of kids detained in the government welfare offices.Taejun is the Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and is the youngest founding board member of Endeavor Japan. Taejun is the author of 9 books, a finisher of the 1648 km ultra-marathon, and a Karate black-belt holder. Taejun is fluent in Japanese, Korean, and English. He plays drums and loves shooting street photos of the world.
Alain is CEO and co-founder of FeenPOP. He has over 25 years’ experience in the financial services innovation for major public tech Companies (Nasdaq/Nyse registered) and he became a serial entrepreneur thereafter. Since 20+ years Alain has been involved as a Founder, Board Member and Advisor for startups (Strategy, Business & Corporate Finance) into the emerging world of Digital Technologies toward the transformation of incumbent players that significantly changed their development or operational models. His main focus has been mainly in the industries of Financial Services (Banks & Insurance), eMarketing and Telcos. With the creation of FeenPOP and since that time Alain has been focused on creating a disruptive financing and investing offering for SME/Corporate based on an inclusive Platform for business liquidity financing. Sustainability and balanced value sharing along the whole Finance ecosystems is its motto for FeenPOP.
Ziade Zoubeiri is Manager, Sub Saharan Africa within the Private Sector Division of the ITFC (International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation), and is leading the expansion and growth of ITFC’s private sector and SME trade finance operations in West and Central Africa. Ziade has extensive Trade Finance expertise of 14 years across several geographies. In 2008, he started out his banking career as Business Analyst with BNP Paribas UAE, subsequently moved to the Credit Analyst role in charge of a portfolio of clients across the Middle East. He then took up a Relationship Manager position within the Financial Institutions Department of BMCE Bank International plc, London, driving the growth of transaction banking services with Financial Institutions based out in West Africa. In 2013, he joined FIMBank plc, as Vice President Financial Institutions, contributing to the development of Trade Finance business across Africa. Ziade has a master’s degree in “International and Corporate Finance” from the ISC Paris School of Management in France as well as an Islamic Finance Qualification from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment UK.
Rick is the Co-founder and Managing Director of ClickPesa. Rick has been an entrepreneur for several years being active around finance, blockchain and software businesses in emerging markets.
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Global SME Finance Forum 2022
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Digitalization transforms businesses, reduces costs, automates processes, and brings down the reliance on manpower. In the financial industry sector, it helps reduce the high risk traditionally associated with financing small businesses, through technologies such as real-time data collection and machine learning.
In partnership with the National Bank of Cambodia, the SME Finance Forum is hosting the 9th Global SME Finance Forum. This year’s event theme is Harnessing Digitalization for Sustainable and Inclusive SME Finance.
Taking place on September 19-21 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the three-day conference will explore how digitalization can promote and accelerate green finance, enhance supply-chain efficiencies, improve data security, and automate processes, while also leading to greater financial inclusion.
Join us on-site to connect with an international network of SME finance experts and practitioners to share and learn from each other’s experience in SME financing in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis.
The team is ready and motivated to deliver a memorable in-person executive program.
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Previous Forums
2021 - Virtual Edition - SME Finance 2021 - Greening SME Finance
2020 - Virtual Edition - SME Finance Outlook 2030
2019 - Amsterdam - The Convergence of the Real and Financial Sectors in SME Finance
2018 - Madrid - Reaching the Informal: the Role of Finance in Improving the Growth and Productivity of SMEs
2018 - Regional (Kenya) - Harnessing Innovation
2017 - Berlin - Digitization of SME Finance
2016 - China - Emerging Trends that Impact Small Business Finance
2015 - Turkey - Partnerships and Innovation for SME Finance
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Finovate Fall: Tech Meets Finance in the World’s Financial Capital
Finovate showcases the best new innovations in financial services technology. This is done via 7-minute live product demos featured on the main-stage. Since 2007, more than 2,500 innovations have been showcased at over 55 conferences.
In 2017, Finovate expanded its model to address themes and topics relevant to regional and global financial markets. Lively discussions with top industry leaders analyze the evolution of financial services, the impact on providers and end-users, and what’s ahead for these services.
FinovateFall, which takes place from September 12 to 14, will bring together 1500+ decision-makers from all parts of the fintech ecosystem, especially banks, VC's and other financial institutions, who make up 50%+ of the audience.
Watch 60+ live demos of innovative fintech solutions and listen to expert advice from 100+ key influencers.
Register today and the members of SME Finance Forum can get 20% off using the VIP Discount Code.
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SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - 2022 August Monthly Session
The “SME Finance Virtual Marketplace” is an online match-making platform that promotes partnership and collaboration between members of the SME Finance Forum, especially financial institutions, fintech companies and development finance institutions/ investors. The virtual Marketplace is powered by GlobalLinker, an AI powered ‘Digital Ecosystem’ offering SMEs a range of services to build digital presence including e-commerce.
How does the Marketplace operate?
To participate in the marketplace, each institution must have:
An institutional profile (company profile and products/services offering)
A personal profile (individuals representing the companies)
Individuals on the Marketplace can explore products and services available (investment products, advisory services, technology solutions...etc. ) and reach out to one another to discuss potential collaboration and partnership.
To learn how to set up a company profile, a listing and an individual profile, please read the User Manual in this link.
Feel free to let us know should you have any questions or need any assistance to smefinanceforum@ifc.org.
August Marketplace Session
This live marketplace session, scheduled on Wednesday, August 3rd from 8 am - 9 am EDT, will feature a series of members, who will present their products/services.
Following the presentations, participants will have the opportunities to reach out directly to the presenting fintech to make inquiries or explore partnership opportunities based on their interests.
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COMPANIES PITCHING
Creditinfo
Where Traditional Sources not Available, Alternative Data will Provide Insights, Creditinfo working to make Unique, Independent and Secure Information Available to Improve Global Trade.
AECM
European Association of Guarantee Institutions, abbreviation derives from the French name Association Européenne de CautionneMent. Mission: Political representation, Organization of the exchange of good practices and Promotion of the guarantee instrument.
Demyst
Demyst provides a user friendly platform that helps clients discover and deploy curated external data.
WeBank
WeBank became China's first digital bank in December 2014 upon receiving its banking license. It offers underbanked individuals and SMEs a variety of convenient and high-quality financial services.
PRESENTERS
Katrin Sturm has joined AECM, the European Association of Guarantee Institutions which has 47 members from 30 countries in Europe, as Secretary General in November 2013. She has been working in Brussels since May 2001 having worked for several business and banking associations. 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, a German national, is a qualified bank clerk, Honorary Consultant of Taiwan SMEG and a member of the World Bank Task Force on greening credit guarantee schemes. She is married and has three children.
Burak Kilicoglu is the Director for Global Markets at Creditinfo Group. He has over 23 years of credit risk management experience, working with international clients in the US, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He is passionate about discussing the ever-changing credit risk challenges organizations are facing and finding solutions in a collaborative way; be it digitalization, collections or COVID’s impact. Burak has worked for various positions at Experian, Bank of America, Discover Card, Transamerica and Whirlpool Financial Corporation and has in-depth knowledge of the full credit cycle, from acquisition to collections.
Prashant P. Reddy, Head of Data Advisory for Demyst. Prashant has 8+ years of experience working with tier-1 and tier-2 clients, leading data-driven workflow transformations. He has also led the due diligence and onboarding of 100s of data products into the Demyst Platform. Prior to joining Demyst, Prashant worked as investment banker at Morgan Stanley where he structured and executed debt transactions for public sector clients. Prashant holds a Master of Public Administration with an emphasis in International Finance and Economic Policy from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Gaurav Chaudhari is Head of Technology Collaborations at WeBank’s Collaborative Business Unit. His role at WeBank is focused around helping industry partners develop new collaborative business ecosystems utilizing WeBank's open platform (ABCD) technologies AI, Blockchain, Cloud, and Big Data. Currently, Gaurav and his team are working on developing sustainability solutions to help organizations attain their ESG goals and drive social responsibility initiatives through collaborations with Green SMEs, and Environmental & Social Service Agencies by utilizing leading-edge collaborative technologies.
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SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - August Monthly Session
Monthly LIVE Marketplace Session
This marketplace session, scheduled on Wednesday, August 3rd from 8 am - 9:00 EDT, will feature a series of institutions, who will present their products/services. Following the presentations, participants will have the opportunities to reach out directly to the presenting fintech to make inquiries or explore partnership opportunities on the Marketplace which is open 24/7/365.
Companies Pitching
AECM
CreditInfo
Demyst
WeBank
Presenters
AECM
Katrin Sturm has joined AECM, the European Association of Guarantee Institutions which has 47 members from 30 countries in Europe, as Secretary General in November 2013. She has been working in Brussels since May 2001 having worked for several business and banking associations. 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, a German national, is a qualified bank clerk, Honorary Consultant of Taiwan SMEG and a member of the World Bank Task Force on greening credit guarantee schemes. She is married and has three children.
CreditInfo
Burak Kilicoglu is the Director for Global Markets at Creditinfo Group. He has over 23 years of credit risk management experience, working with international clients in the US, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He is passionate about discussing the ever-changing credit risk challenges organizations are facing and finding solutions in a collaborative way; be it digitalization, collections or COVID’s impact. Burak has worked for various positions at Experian, Bank of America, Discover Card, Transamerica and Whirlpool Financial Corporation and has in-depth knowledge of the full credit cycle, from acquisition to collections.
Demyst
Prashant P. Reddy, Head of Data Advisory for Demyst. Prashant has 8+ years of experience working with tier-1 and tier-2 clients, leading data-driven workflow transformations. He has also led the due diligence and onboarding of 100s of data products into the Demyst Platform. Prior to joining Demyst, Prashant worked as investment banker at Morgan Stanley where he structured and executed debt transactions for public sector clients. Prashant holds a Master of Public Administration with an emphasis in International Finance and Economic Policy from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
WeBank
Gaurav is Head of Technology Collaborations at WeBank’s Collaborative Business Unit. His role at WeBank is focused around helping industry partners develop new collaborative business ecosystems utilizing WeBank's open platform (ABCD) technologies AI, Blockchain, Cloud, and Big Data. Currently, Gaurav and his team are working on developing sustainability solutions to help organizations attain their ESG goals and drive social responsibility initiatives through collaborations with Green SMEs, and Environmental & Social Service Agencies by utilizing leading-edge collaborative technologies.
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SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - July Monthly Session
The “SME Finance Virtual Marketplace” is an online match-making platform that promotes partnership and collaboration between members of the SME Finance Forum, especially financial institutions, fintech companies and development finance institutions/ investors. The virtual Marketplace is powered by GlobalLinker, an AI powered ‘Digital Ecosystem’ offering SMEs a range of services to build digital presence including e-commerce.
How does the Marketplace operate?
To participate in the marketplace, each institution must have:
An institutional profile (company profile and products/services offering)
A personal profile (individuals representing the companies)
Individuals on the Marketplace can explore products and services available (investment products, advisory services, technology solutions...etc. ) and reach out to one another to discuss potential collaboration and partnership.
To learn how to set up a company profile, a listing and an individual profile, please read the User Manual in this link.
Feel free to let us know should you have any questions or need any assistance to smefinanceforum@ifc.org.
July Marketplace Session
This live marketplace session, scheduled on Wednesday, July 6th from 8 am - 9:00 EDT, will feature a series of members, who will present their products/services.
Following the presentations, participants will have the opportunities to reach out directly to the presenting fintech to make inquiries or explore partnership opportunities based on their interests.
Presenters
Tiago Peroba is the Head of the Department for Institutional Relations and Credit Promotion for SMEs at the Brazilian Development Bank – BNDES. He has worked at BNDES for more than 18 years, with over 10 years of experience in dealing with the Brazilian financial system, working with public and private commercial banks, regional development banks, cooperative banks, and captive banks. He is also responsible for the relationship with more than two hundred business entities, having participated as a member of business committees and representative on boards in these entities. Tiago holds a Master's in Accounting from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and a Ph.D. from the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration. He was a professor in the postgraduate courses at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, from 2006 to 2020.
Nagla Mohamed Bahr is the Managing Director of the Credit Guarantee in Egypt (CGC-Egypt). With more than 30 years of experience in economic development, financial advisories and rating activities with a focus on emerging markets and economies in transition. Nagla has exceptional experience in MSMEs Finance, particularly in the credit guarantee field for 20 years. Her passion for MSMEs sustainable development motivated her mission to create the right ecosystem capable of facilitating their access to finance in suitable forms and with favorable conditions. With her experience in risk management and MSMEs unique characteristics, she was able to create innovative guarantee products, resulting in the boom of CGC-Egypt portfolio by more than 40x in 5 years, serving almost 160,000 MSMEs in 2022, and enabling their access to finance by USD 17 billion. Nagla is the Chairwoman of the EMGN (European-Mediterranean Guarantee Network) as well as one of the main founders of the MENA –Guarantee Network. She has B.Sc. in Economics and a Master’s degree in Professional Economic Development.
Owureku Asare currently leads Digital Solutions for Ecobank Group Commercial Banking overseeing 33 Countries in Middle Africa. His role focuses on leveraging digital tools to provide financial access to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Prior to his current role, he was the Regional Head, Consumer Distribution for Ecobank Anglophone West Africa. During this role, he led the development of Xpress loan; a Digital lending product for Micro Enterprises and the financially excluded through a partnership with Ecobank, Jumo and MTN Ghana. Additionally, he Successfully managed a US$6 Million grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support Ecobank’s Mass Savings Projects in Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria. He also led digital financial services and financial inclusion initiatives in more than 15 countries in Central, East and West Africa. He is a seasoned subject matter expert and International Speaker on Digital financial services with over 18 years of experience in the sector, with a purpose to drive financial inclusion. This led to his role as a Co-founder and Director of Financial Inclusion Forum Africa; An African-based non-profit organization contributing to global and national efforts of providing access to the financially excluded.
George Ogbonnaya is a vice president and the Group Head, of Business Banking at First City Monument Bank Limited. A Fellow of the Institute of Credit Administration, a Senior Honourable Member of Chartered Institute of Bankers, and a certified coach in Game Thinking with over 23 years of experience in banking, cutting across commercial banking, credit sales, and product development, product management & electronic banking. He is responsible for the SME and Commercial banking segments of the bank’s business.
In addition to having the responsibility for driving growth in commercial and SME segments, George is also responsible for developing new products/solutions and finding alternative sources of funding for SMEs. He drives the bank’s strategic goals in emerging sectors including Renewable Energy, Women-In-Business, and Technology. Under his leadership, the bank has progressed to a top-rated SME financial institution winning several awards in the SME categories.
Bamidele Kutemi currently heads the Gender & Youth Banking Team in FirstBank, overseeing the development and implementation of segment specific initiatives and portfolio management. Prior to this role, She had managed and served in lead roles across various teams and businesses in the bank, spanning over 18 years experience in Domestic Operations, Electronic Banking and Retail Products, leading her teams to develop and implement innovative initiatives and solutions for the bank in payment card management & operations, and e commerce payment solutions. A certified Prince2 Project Management Practitioner and an Associate Member of The Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPMN), Bamidele is an alumnus of the University of Ibadan, with a Masters degree in Communication Arts. She has attended several strategic courses in banking operations, electronic payments, product development & management within and outside the country. She has worked on several initiatives within the bank aimed at driving enhanced customer experience and lately women inclusion and empowerment in a bid to yield sustainable growth in the gender segment.
Oluchi Okpara is a first class graduate of University of Sunderland, UK where she studied business management. She worked in KPMG for 4 years as an associate consultant in the Management Consulting practice of KPMG in Nigeria. Her experience covers customer experience and corporate strategic planning in the financial services industry. She was a member of KPMG’s customer experience team as well as a project team member for Nigeria’s foremost annual banking industry customer satisfaction survey (BICSS) involving over 28,000 retail customers and 4,000 SMEs and large corporate organizations. She has worked on several customer experience transformation projects which involved coming up with tailored propositions for both Retail, SME and Corporate customers of various financial institutions in Nigeria. She facilitated on several occasions bespoke trainings to help employees better understand how to deliver great customer experience in a variety of scenarios. Also led the team in conducting in depth customer experience surveys and focus group sessions that covered over 4,000 individual and 100 corporate clients across the country.
Helen Ihonre is a graduate of Economics from Enugu State University of Science & Technology and holds a Master degree in International Management from the University of Liverpool and awaiting her induction as a Chartered Banker with the Chartered Institute of Bankers Nigeria (CIBN). She has 20 years experience in Banking which cuts across Operations, Relationship Management and Product Development. In the last 10 years, Helen has led various teams that conceptualized and developed tailor made products for SMEs in various sectors and across customer segments. The products under her purview has consistently grown in portfolio size and has been a tool in SME customer acquisition and retention for the Bank. She was a also pioneer Unit Head that successfully implemented a digital lending solution for salaried employees in the Bank. Helen is currently leading a team of product managers to implement a digital lending solution for MSMEs and is also driving the implementation of the Bank’s SME digital account opening process for ease of customer on boarding. She has attended various trainings and courses in Product development, strategy implementation, project finance, project management, digital transformation and leadership programmes. She has also been a part of several projects and initiatives for SME business growth and is also a Culture Ambassador under the Bank’s Culture Transformation project.
Sameer Jooma, Executive, Trader Ecosystems Lead, Standard Bank Group. Experienced Innovation and Analytics executive with a history of working across industries and geographies for multinational corporations. He is a specialist in strategic analytics, an excellent curator of innovative technologies and has demonstrated the ability to bring innovation to life, for impact. He has a deep understanding of technology and also experience in large-scale enterprise analytics projects. He leverages this combination to deliver data-driven innovation initiatives. He is passionate about driving financial inclusion and developing start-ups on the African continent and believes that technology and ecosystem development are pivotal in enabling this.
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