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Virtual Roundtable Series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts #13 -LAC: New Digital Delivery Models for COVID-19
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In the last weeks, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has transformed into the highest COVID-19-affected region. Customer survey has shown that although banks are usually conduits to get government financial support to individuals and small businesses, it is not only money what SME businesses need to survive. Studies show that city transportation is certainly one of the most affected sectors since lockdowns were imposed globally. Conversely, due to these mobility restrictions, mobile banking and e-commerce volumes have surged. This is a simple example proving that there are opportunities to adapt and expand business models. Key players in the SME finance space have included digital financial services, non-financial services, and leveraged partnerships within their offering, finding creative ways to support customers, while surviving the pandemic.
On Thursday, June 18, 2020, at 8 a.m. EDT, leading innovators in financial services, e-commerce, and sharing economy will discuss recent actions taken to support their clients to cope with COVID 19 challenges, with the participation of senior executives from Didi (a mobile transportation platform across Asia, Latin America and Australia), Itau Unibanco Brazil (Latin America’s largest corporate & investment bank), Konfio (a fintech to help SMEs to access capital in Mexico), members Paypal (an open digital payments platform), and Spartan SME Finance (an alternative financier that focusses on SMEs).
About COVID-19 Roundtable Series
In times of crisis, accurate and timely information is key. Sharing knowledge and practical experience are proven forms of investment that pave the path to success. With the purpose of helping our members build their own knowledge advantage, the SME Finance Forum facilitates activities and learning opportunities with the strategic approach of collecting and disseminating the best practices, while connecting SME finance experts and practitioners within our global network. Starting in late March, the Forum hosts weekly virtual roundtable sessions focusing on mitigation efforts used to cope with COVID-19, sharing those experiences in a continuous and real-time basis. Learn more>
What you will learn
What financial and non-financial products are offered to existing clients using digital means?
How are they adjusting their operational model to the current situation? What are the opportunities & challenges in this process?
How does this circumstance relate to the trends in the region?
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Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
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Jose Etchegoyen, Senior Global Banking on Women Specialist, IFC
About the speakers
Tony Qiu is the Chief Operating Officer at DiDi International Business Group. Tony joined DiDi in April 2015 to lead DiDi’s international investment efforts including key investments in Lyft, Grab, and Ola. Between 2016 and 2017, he led the Premier business. Tony took charge of DiDi’s Latin American businesses in early 2018 and became the CEO of 99 in April the same year. He was promoted to DiDi’ s Vice President in December 2018. In August 2019, he was appointed as the COO of DiDi International Business Group, overseeing DiDi’s internationalization development. Before joining DiDi, Tony worked at Bain Capital and Morgan Stanley. He graduated from New York University with a B.S. in finance in 2007.
Fernanda Boschi is the Sustainability Coordinator at Itaú Unibanco Brazil, and she coordinates the inclusion and entrepreneurship agenda. With 17 years of experience in business areas and leading projects in companies such as Hyperion and Oracle, Fernanda has dedicated the last 10 years of her career at Itaú, standing out for leading the bank's internationalization projects in Latin America. Since 2019 her mission is to expand the agenda of positive impact and sustainable development to the organization's core business. She has a degree in International Relations and a post-graduate degree in Negotiation at Fundação Getúlio Vargas.
Gregorio Tomassi is the Vicepresident of Finance & Strategy at Konfio. Gregorio has more than 25 years of combined experience in corporate finance, capital markets, investments, and strategy. Before joining Konfío, Gregorio was an equity analyst for Itaú BBA, achieving first-rate recognition in several years in the ranking for Latin America compiled by the Institutional Investors magazine; Previously, he was also a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, an investor relations officer at a telecommunications company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, an entrepreneur, and an investor in Private Equity. He is CFA® certified, has an MBA from IESA in Caracas, and a degree in Mathematics, cum laude, from the Simón Bolívar University in Caracas.
Adam Klappholz leads the Global Credit Expansion, Business Development, and Strategy team at PayPal. His team’s remit is to scale PayPal’s consumer and SMB lending products into new markets. Prior to joining PayPal’s Credit team, Adam spent two years on PayPal’s corporate strategy team. Before PayPal, Adam worked on the International Rescue Committee’s strategy team and spent three years at American Express in the Strategic Planning Group, and then Enterprise Growth Group. Adam frequently consults with startups, and has a passion for fintech in emerging markets. Adam graduated with an MBA from Columbia Business School, and a BA in Political Science from UC Berkeley.
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Kumaran Padayachee is the CEO of Spartan SME Finance (Pty) Ltd, an alternative financier that only focuses on SMEs. Spartan’s niche financing covers Growth Finance, Specialized Asset Finance and Bridging Finance. Kumaran has been funding SMEs for the past 23 years and has intimate understanding & expertise in SME financing. Kumaran is a co-panellist on both the popular Big Small Business Show and the SME Funding Show on Business Day TV. He has a B.Comm [Accounting] from Rhodes University, is a Certified Expert in SME Finance from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and did a 3-year Entrepreneurial Masters Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT].
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Virtual Roundtable Series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts #12 - Global Microfinance Networks Coping with COVID-19
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The COVID19 and economic lockdown have severely affected the livelihood of people and businesses across the world. Millions of MSMEs are closed, at least temporarily, causing job losses and income disruptions at an unprecedented scale. Among other things, the pandemic has sparked serious concerns over liquidity among financial institutions, particularly MFIs, which mostly serve micro and small businesses in the informal sectors. The crisis also highlights the need for the MFIs to revisit and reshape their strategies so to build resilience both for the survival and to better serve clients over the medium to long term.
On Thursday, June 11, 2020, at 8 a.m. EDT, senior executives from Advans Group (an international microfinance group active in developing countries), Access Microfinance Holding (a commercial microfinance investment and holding company), FINCA Impact Finance ( a global network of microfinance institutions and community-based banks), Baobab (a digital financial inclusion group in Africa and China), and Accion (a global nonprofit working in microfinance and fintech impact investing), will explain the challenges that microfinance institutions face at country-level, the impact on their clients, and the opportunities to stay afloat amidst the pandemic.
About COVID-19 Roundtable Series
In times of crisis, accurate and timely information is key. Sharing knowledge and practical experience are proven forms of investment that pave the path to success. With the purpose of helping our members build their own knowledge advantage, the SME Finance Forum facilitates activities and learning opportunities with the strategic approach of collecting and disseminating the best practices, while connecting SME finance experts and practitioners within our global network. Starting in late March, the Forum hosts weekly virtual roundtable sessions focusing on mitigation efforts used to cope with COVID-19, sharing those experiences in a continuous and real-time basis. Learn more>
What you will learn
• How are the institutions responding at country level?
• How do regulatory changes affect their operations?
• What are the impacts on the existing and new clients?
• The future of the microfinance model in general and how COVID-19 affected digitalization.
Host
• Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
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Steven Duchatelle is Chief Executive Officer of the Advans Group. Steven also acts as Chairman of the Board for Advans Cameroun and Advans Banque Congo, and sits on the Boards of Amret (Cambodia) and Advans Pakistan. Since 2004, Steven has primarily focused on the creation and development of the Advans network and the supervision of Advans greenfield institutions, he became Chief Investment Officer in 2006 then Chief Operations Officer in 2011 and deputy CEO, Operations, in June 2012. Since he joined Advans International in 2001, Steven has carried out numerous consulting assignments, mostly in Africa, on the following subjects in particular: technical audits of Microfinance Institutions, evaluation of programs and microfinance policies and feasibility studies for the creation of new institutions. Prior to joining Advans, Steven worked in audit and financial services in France and China.
Bernd Zattler is the CEO of Access Microfinance Holding AG, a joint stock company located in Berlin, Germany. In that position I am directly responsible for the investments of the Holding including oversight of network banks, human resource development including learning and development, internal audit, legal and partnerships. I am also a supervisory board member of five of our investees. At the end of 2019, the consolidated loan portfolio of AccessHolding corresponded to EUR 417 million and deposits amount to EUR 160 million. The Access Group employs more than 5,600 staff. AccessHolding is majority investor in seven small business banks and MFI’s and held a minority stake in another bank. Before engaging in development finance, I worked at the head office of Unilever Northern Europe. Furthermore, I did research on economic theory, political economy and currency systems. I lived and worked in Paris and Lima. I am fluent in German, English, French and Spanish
Andrée Simon is the President and Chief Executive Officer of FINCA Impact Finance (FIF), a global network of microfinance banks and institutions. FIF's network of 20 community-based banks offer responsible and affordable loan and saving products to more than two million people across the world, empowering low-income women and men to take control of their financial future. Previously, Andrée served as VP and COO, returning to FINCA after serving for several years as President and COO of Women for Women International, a humanitarian organization dedicated to financial, educational, and interpersonal support of women survivors of war, poverty and injustice. Prior to this, she was Deputy to the President & CEO of FINCA for more than seven years, where she was pivotal in redesigning the organization’s business model from donor-based non-profit to a for-profit operating structure. Andrée has significant experience in corporate strategy and she has held various business and advisory roles in other organizations, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Andrée has been a board member of Women Advancing Microfinance International and is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the FINCA Microfinance Holding Company. As the head a financial institution with more than 10,000 employees in 20 countries –including Tanzania, Uganda, Pakistan, Haiti, Afghanistan and more– Andrée spends half the year in these remote locations, learning from her customers on how they could best access financial products, whether it is as simple as a loan, and savings account or a mobile money application.
Victoria White is the Managing Director, Global Advisory Solutions, at Accion. She is a professional in financial inclusion with over twenty years of cross-regional and technical experience in developing markets. Since 2001, she has worked with Accion, a global non-profit committed to creating a financially inclusive world, with a pioneering legacy in microfinance and fintech impact investing. Victoria currently oversees Accion’s advisory services practice, supporting financial service providers in developing markets leverage new innovations in banking and technology to better serve their customers. She also serves as a board director for a number of these institutions. She has authored various publications in the microfinance field, including Transforming Microfinance Institutions: Providing Full Financial Services to the Poor and Institutional Metamorphosis: Transformation of Microfinance NGOs into Regulated Financial Institutions. Victoria was also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) for 10 years in Washington, DC.
Guillaume Lesay is the Chief Risk Officer of Baobab Group. Guillaume is in charge of setting risk management policies and strategies to support the main operational and financial objectives of Baobab. His mission is to ensure Baobab executes its strategy and grows safely in all the geographies it operates. Baobab risk management framework extends from credit and macro economic challenges to operational, financial and strategic risks. He holds diplomas from Université Paris Dauphine and the Yale School of Management and has accumulated significant experience in operations and risk management of financial services throughout several global assignments (Indonesia, Brazil, USA, Singapore, Turkey) at Société Générale and GE Capital.
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Virtual Roundtable Series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts #11 - Insuring SMEs
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One of the many financial instruments available – insurance – is a central aspect of any risk management strategy. In times of unexpected events, insurance coverage seems to be the most obvious solution to protect business sustainability. However, for SMEs, unlike for large corporates, time and cost associating with acquiring an insurance protection plan could act as a deterrent against doing so, creating a huge risk gap. COVID-19 has unleashed a myriad of unprecedented risks and liabilities that make insurance a necessity. Furthermore, the insurance gap is more accentuated in the women-led SME segment, making the financial inclusion of women even more difficult to achieve, especially in light of the pandemic.
On Thursday, June 4, 2020, at 8 a.m. EDT, senior representatives from Euler Hermes (a global leader in trade credit insurance), Insular Life Insurance (the largest Filipino life insurance company), Bajaj Allianz (India’s leading private general insurance company), and Hokodo (a tech company providing financing and insurance to SMEs in Europe), together with IFC’s executives, will explain the role of insurance in serving SMEs in general, with special focus on women-led SMEs, and how they are serving this segment during the pandemic.
About COVID-19 Virtual Roundtable Series
In times of crisis, accurate and timely information is key. Sharing knowledge and practical experience are proven forms of investment that pave the path to success. With the purpose of helping our members build their own knowledge advantage, the SME Finance Forum facilitates activities and learning opportunities with the strategic approach of collecting and disseminating the best practices, while connecting SME finance experts and practitioners within our global network. Starting in late March, the Forum hosts weekly virtual roundtable sessions focusing on mitigation efforts used to cope with COVID-19, sharing those experiences in a continuous and real-time basis. Learn more>
What you will learn
The role of insurance in SME financing;
How insurance companies serve SMEs;
Specific strategies catered to women-led SMEs;
The impact of COVID-19 on the way insurance companies serving SMEs.
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• Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
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Susan Holliday is a Senior advisor at IFC. Susan is part of the financial institutions group at IFC. She acts as an expert on investments and advisory work in insurance, both mature companies, and insurtech, in developing countries. She has over 30 years’ experience in insurance in a variety of different roles, as a board member and an advisor to Eos Venture Fund and several start-ups. Prior to joining IFC, Susan worked at Swiss Re, where she was a Managing Director and Head of Strategy for the reinsurance business worldwide and a member of the executive team. In this capacity she worked on all aspects of life and health and property-casualty re/insurance; headed a global team; and led the strategy work for emerging markets and for Fintech. Susan also held the positions of CFO of Reinsurance Client Markets and Head of Investor Relations at Swiss Re. Before Swiss Re, Susan worked in equity research and equity sales covering the insurance industry at UBS, JP Morgan, and Paribas. Susan is a UK Chartered Accountant, a member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Insurers.
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Henriette Kolb is the Head of the Gender Department at the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group. She serves as an advocate for gender equality issues in the private sector and works with IFC’s clients to include both women and men as entrepreneurs, employees, consumers, community stakeholders and leaders. She leads a global team that is engaged in co-creating gender-smart private sector solutions through research, investments, advice, and peer learning platforms. Before joining IFC in September 2013, Henriette was the CEO of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, where she remains involved as a senior advisor. Earlier in her career, Henriette was the UN representative in the Middle East Quartet team advising Tony Blair in Jerusalem. She also worked for the Office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO). She has held positions as governance advisor with the European Commission Delegation to Tanzania, the German Technical Cooperation Agency in Germany, and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Tanzania, where she worked on conflict reduction, civic education, and socioeconomic issues in East Africa. Henriette graduated with an MSc in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and received her MA from Freiburg University, Germany. She is also a Harvard Kennedy School Women in Public Policy Program fellow (2018). Henriette is a Bucerius and Hertie summer school alumna and a frequent contributor to blogs hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, Huffington Post, and Business Fights Poverty.
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Charles Ruelle is Chief Innovation Officer and Co-head of Euler Hermes Digital Agency, the Innovation Arm of Euler Hermes Group, that leverage new technologies to reinvent credit insurance and explore new business models in trade finance. Previously, he was entrepreneur from 2005 to 2010, and then co-created Etalab, the French Prime Minister's task force for Open Data. As CTO, Charles built the French open data platform: data.gouv.fr to make easily and freely accessible French data. Charles was also Board Member at Hello Tomorrow Challenge, an international challenge open to science & technology innovators.
Cristina delos Santos is the Head of eCommerce and Product Portfolio at Insular Life Assurance Co, Ltd (InLife) which the oldest and biggest Filipino insurance company in the Philippines. In her role, Tina Delos Santos oversees the development of insurance products that the company introduces to the market, as well as the establishment of InLife’s eCommerce presence and business. Her professional career spans positions in banks and telecoms and extensive exposure to the function of end-to-end product management and development. Tina was also a practitioner of analytics-based marketing and campaign management.
T A Ramalingam is the Chief Technical Officer for Bajaj Allianz General Insurance. In his current role, he is responsible for managing motor & non-motor underwriting, claims, risk management, and re-insurance for the organisation. Prior to this, he handled company’s distribution channels and strategic tie-ups as Chief Distribution Officer for institutional sales. In his earlier roles, he has guided and lead teams to create efficient claims management processes that were critical enablers for delivering superior customer experience during claims. As a result, today Bajaj Allianz General Insurance is known in the Indian insurance industry for its best turnaround time in claims management. Rama started his career in the banking industry and has a total work experience of over two decades in the insurance industry. He started his career with a prominent national insurer wherein he handled various operational areas including marketing, claims, and reinsurance. He is a Post Graduate in Commerce and an Associate of Insurance Institute of India.
Richard Thornton is the co-founder of Hokodo, a business which protects SMEs against the risk that their customers fail to pay them for goods or services offered on credit terms. Hokodo's products are designed to be integrated into the technology platforms that SMEs use day-to-day. For example, Hokodo's Invoice Protection solution integrates into cloud accounting platforms so that business owners can protect an invoice as it is being created. The business employs around 20 staff, working out of offices in London and Paris. Prior to founding Hokodo, Richard spent 14 years working at Oliver Wyman, consulting to insurers across Europe, and 4 years working at Aspen, a Bermdudian specialty (re)insurer, where he served as Group CRO and Group COO.
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Virtual Roundtable Series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts #10 - Serving Women-Owned Micro Businesses
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Much has been written about the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on women. Even under normal circumstances women-owned micro businesses have limited access to much-needed capital and insurance and are struggling to stay afloat; while with COVID-19 women-owners face a myriad of additional strains related to their roles as family caregivers. These women-owners depend on the microfinance industry for support in several ways, which extend beyond just financing and include business guidance, networking, and access to information. Financial solutions for MSMEs often rely on relatively high-touch engagements that are difficult to maintain with social distancing. Therefore, increasing women’s access to digital financial services has been identified as one of the important ways to expand access to finance, information, and networks for women entrepreneurs.
On Thursday, May 28, 2020, at 8 a.m. EDT, senior executives from Women’s World Banking (a network of financial service providers committed to closing the gender gap in financial inclusion), Microfund for Women (private non-profit company operating in Jordan), and Card Bank Inc (a microfinance-oriented rural bank), will share how they have been impacted by COVID-19, and how they are innovating to stay effective and support their clients.
About COVID-19 Virtual Roundtable Series
In times of crisis, accurate and timely information is key. Sharing knowledge and practical experience are proven forms of investment that pave the path to success. With the purpose of helping our members build their own knowledge advantage, the SME Finance Forum facilitates activities and learning opportunities with the strategic approach of collecting and disseminating the best practices, while connecting SME finance experts and practitioners within our global network. Starting in late March, the Forum hosts weekly virtual roundtable sessions focusing on mitigation efforts used to cope with COVID-19, sharing those experiences in a continuous and real-time basis. Learn more>
What you will learn
How do financial service providers remain connected to their women-owned MSME customers through COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing orders?
How is COVID-19 changing the way and intensity with which women-owned MSMEs access and utilize digital financial services?
Is COVID-19 crisis creating new opportunities to accelerate the achievement of inclusive financial growth for women-owned MSMEs?
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• Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
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Ade Ashaye is the Executive Vice President of Women’s World Banking. Ade joined WWB in 2018 and leads Women’s World Banking’s efforts to grow and broaden the network of financial service providers –incorporating retails banks, microfinance institutions, fintechs, mobile network operators and insurance providers –committed to closing the gender gap in financial inclusion. This growing network currently consists of 51 network members with a reach of 67 million women customers. Ade was most recently Managing Director of Visa West Africa, responsible for overseeing Visa’s relationships in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, and Liberia. He also previously served as a member of Women’s World Banking Africa Advisory Council. Ade received his engineering degree from the University of Surrey, England.
Muna Sukhtian is the Managing Director of Microfund for Women. Ms. Sukhtian started her career as a management consultant in the US, before returning to Jordan to work in her family’s multinational pharmaceutical business. With a passion for social service, she then served as Chief of Staff to Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah. She is currently the Managing Director of Microfund for Women (MFW), a not-for-profit company that primarily serves low-income women who are unable to access the services of conventional financial institutions. Today, MFW has around 750 employees who serves 150,000 beneficiaries,96% of them women, through 61 branches across Jordon. The organization has received many regional and international awards. Muna Sukhtian is Co-chair of Women’s World Banking Board of Trustees, a member of the Board of Trustees of Crown Prince Foundation, founding board member of Sanadcom for Business Finance, she is also a board member at GMS Holdings, Queen Rania Award for Excellence in Education. Muna has previously served on the boards of Washington based Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a global partnership of 34 leading organizations that seek to advance financial inclusion; The Queen Rania Teacher Academy; Greater Amman Municipality and The Royal Film Commission-Jordon. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and an MBA from INSEAD. She lives in Amman with her husband and three children.
Mavic Austria is the President and CEO of Card Bank Inc (a microfinance-oriented rural bank and a member of Center for Agriculture and Rural Development’s Mutually Reinforcing Institutions-CARD MRI). Mavic has been with the CARD MRI for twenty-six years and was assigned in different Units like Internal Audit, Compliance, and Risk prior to this current position. Attended short courses (Advanced Management Program (AMP) and High Potential Leadership Program) at Harvard Business School which both part of the development for the bank’s succession of management. Mavic also completed Executive Masters in Business Administration (EMBA) at the Asian Institute of Management wherein a Strategic Management Project (SMP) related to Internal Control was successfully defended in April 2007. She is married with three children (two girls and one boy).
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Today, American farmers are plowing under their harvests, milk is being dumped and at the same time people are going hungry in American cities: COVID-19 has completely disrupted America’s food supply chain and new solutions are needed to fix this problem. Together, we must develop a new level of resilience for our food supply chains, in the United States and globally, dealing with both existing problems and those observed due to COVID-19.
The Ayadee Foundation, together with members of the Responsible Leaders Network of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, is hosting a virtual hackathon bringing networks of technologists, food and agriculture industry experts, policy experts, scientists, engineers, and academics, to find new and innovative solutions. Will you join us in finding these solutions?
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Virtual Roundtable Series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts #9: SME Finance Businesses Thriving amid Chaos
Featuring CashDirector, F-Road, GRAB, Qlana, and Topicus
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The world is navigating uncharted waters as the pandemic continues to disrupt people’s lives across the globe. Millions of jobs are lost as many of the MSMEs, which account for 90% of the businesses and 50% of the employment worldwide, are being affected by the COVID19 and the containment measures.
As the crisis continues, the majority of the MSMEs are proven vulnerable to the supply and demand shocks, and face survival risk over the next few months, in part due to liquidity issues. At the same time, some of the businesses seem to be doing fine, especially those in the fintech industry, by leveraging the opportunities that the crisis presents, to deliver a unique value proposition, thus thriving amid the chaos generated by COVID-19.
This week, on Thursday, May 21, 2020, at 8 a.m. EDT, executives from members CashDirector (a Poland-based fintech), F-Road (working for MSMEs in various regions of China), Grab (providing services in Singapore and neighboring Asian nations), and Topicus (a platform developer out of the Netherlands), will share their insights and actions that help them overcome the pandemic and thrive amid chaos.
About COVID-19 Virtual Roundtable Series
In times of crisis, accurate and timely information is key. Sharing knowledge and practical experience are proven forms of investment that pave the path to success. With the purpose of helping our members build their own knowledge advantage, the SME Finance Forum facilitates activities and learning opportunities with the strategic approach of collecting and disseminating the best practices, while connecting SME finance experts and practitioners within our global network.
Starting in late March, the Forum hosts weekly virtual roundtable sessions focusing on mitigation efforts used to cope with COVID-19, sharing those experiences in a continuous and real-time basis.
What you will learn
• Why some business models are thriving right now when others are struggling.
• What actions they took pre-and post-lockdowns to ensure business continuity.
• How they see the coming year for their business.
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Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
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Patrycja Strzelecka is the co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer at CashDirector. CashDirector’s Digital CFO solution for SMEs helps banks provide financial management services to small businesses at an affordable price. The platform allows SMEs to save time through automated daily finance management, understand their cash-flow needs in real-time, and interact online with their bank to balance short-term deficits or get funding. At the same time, through integration with their online banking platform, banks are able to obtain valuable information crucial for better risk assessment and to offer personalised on-demand products in an automated and efficient way. Patrycja's expertise includes Fintech, finance and accounting management, outsourcing. Prior to CashDirector she was Managing Director at TMF Group and Head of Marketing at Raiffeisen Bank in Poland. Alumni of Barclays TechStars PwC Raise and DBS SuperCharger Accelerators, Patrycja understands the dynamics of scaling companies as well as partnering with banks. She graduated from the International Silesian Business School in Poland and holds an MBA from Université du Québec à Montréal.
Vitaliy Abayev is the Vice President of Shanghai Fang Fu Tong technologies Co. (F-road), responsible for financial cooperation relations and SME projects implementation in partner banks. He is a part of the core team of F-road in developing the unique digitalized IT-solution for the local Chinese banks to finance the needs of SME business in a smart way when the impact of human risk is significantly mitigated. He has 20+ years of international experience in banking and SME projects consulting in China and Eastern Europe. He used to work in the IPC GmbH-led Microfinance Projects and served in the top leading banks of Ukraine, Russia, Greece, and Sweden in Senior management positions, including branch network director and head of the retail business. Since 2015, he started his experience in managing IT & Business development projects in the Chinese market implementing the full scope of banking products for different customer segments in Retail and SME businesses.
Ankur Mehrotra is Managing Director & Head of Grab Financial Services, where he oversees the strategic direction and development of the Grab Financial Group’s financial services offering. He leads both Grab’s lending and insurance businesses as well as its expansion into additional products. He joined Grab in 2016 and held various roles before assuming his current position. Most recently, he was Managing Director, Corporate Finance of Grab, where he focused on debt and equity raising for Grab. He also led the end-to-end creation of Joint-Ventures for the Grab Financial Group. Ankur has over 16 years of experience in the finance and banking industries. He started his career at the IMF in Washington D.C. in 2002 and moved to Asia in 2008 with Standard Chartered Bank where he worked in the Origination, Structured Finance & Structured Product sales teams. In 2012, he launched his own start-up, which was based in Singapore and later expanded to Indonesia. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from Wittenberg University, a Master’s Degree in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University, and a Master’s Degree in Finance from the London Business School.
Dimitry Oosthoek is the Head of Internationalization at Topicus Finance. He joined Topicus 3 years ago and is responsible for realizing the international strategy and ambitions of Topicus Finance. He is dedicated to digital innovation and contributing to Topicus’ mission to make financing more accessible, efficient, and transparent. Prior to joining Topicus he held several positions in banking, insurance, and IT. He studied economics and law at HES/Rotterdam Business School.
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