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AgriFinance Community of Practice (CoP) - Partnerships with AgTech platform: exploring win-win models.
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The SME Finance Forum has created a Community of Practice on Agrifinance, a group of AgriFinance experts and practitioners from member and non-member institutions, to discuss experiences and document good practices and innovations in the field. One main objective of this CoP is to promote learning and sharing of good practice examples that help members improve their offerings and better serve the Agri-SMEs.
The CoP session of Agrifinance will explore the various models of AgTech platforms providing access to finance to farmers and SME agribusinesses and the role of partnerships with Financial Institutions. ISF will present its new report that identifies the various models of AgTechs, maps them, and provides some insights on AgTechs in Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, and Cote d’Ivoire.
Target audience: SME Finance Forum members, IFC clients, and their guests. By way of background, the SME Finance Forum convenes the AgriFinance CoP meetings every quarter. These meetings are open only to members of the SME Finance Forum. The attendees are senior executives and practitioners from banks, fintech companies, DFIs, NBFIs, and credit guarantees, who operate in over 190 countries. Usually, the meetings have between 40-100 attendees. The invitation could be extended to non-members on a case-by-case basis.
Panelists:
- ISF – Sarah Devermann, Senior Associate
- Apollo Agriculture – Eli Pollak, Founder and CEO;
- Standard Bank Group – Niki Neumann, Executive: Lead Ecosystem Agriculture, Group Innovation.
Moderated by Aditi Shrestha, chaired by Panos Varangis, and hosted by Mathew Gamser.
Sarah is a Senior Associate at ISF, based in California. During her time at ISF, Sarah has focused extensively on the AgTech market in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. She has facilitated research on how AgTechs can leverage their market positioning to promote financial inclusion, gender equality, and climate risk mitigation. Prior to joining ISF, Sarah was a consultant in Deloitte’s Public Sector practice. While at Deloitte, she worked with a number of public sector clients, including USAID, the Library of Congress, and Department of Navy. She is skilled in data analysis, human centered design, and project management. Sarah holds a B.S. in Foreign Service, with a concentration in Global Business, from Georgetown University.
Eli Pollak is the Founder and CEO of Apollo Agriculture. Apollo Agriculture is the commercial farming platform that helps small-scale farmers maximize their profits. Prior to founding Apollo Agriculture, Eli helped build The Climate Corporation, which provides customized recommendations to large-scale farmers using machine learning. Eli studied Engineering at Stanford University and is a Forbes 30 Under 30.
Niki Neumann, Executive at Standard Bank Group, Lead Agriculture Ecosystems. Leads strategic innovation and business growth initiatives for organizations operating in the agricultural value chain. She holds a track record of successfully conceptualizing, building, and launching new business ventures and products enabled by technology and strategic partnerships. With cross-sector experience in African regions, a senior executive leading with passion and pragmatism across the design and implementation of strategies that enable organizations to succeed in an increasingly competitive, digitally enabled, data-driven environment.
Aditi Shrestha is an investment professional with 16 years of experience in development finance and in the private sector, primarily in FCS/ low-income IDA countries and the financial sector. She is an Investment Officer with IFC’s Global Financial Institutions Group, working upstream to attract more private investment in emerging markets, prior to which she worked on IFC investment transactions in the financial and real sector, and on advisory services in Asia and Africa. Before joining IFC, she worked in the private sector specializing in capital and equity markets and co-founded an investment management and management consulting company, and she started her career in private equity and hedge fund management
Panos Varangis is currently the Principal Operations Officer at the Financial Institutions Group, IFC. Prior to that Panos led IFC’s work in advising financial institutions to provide financial services to SMEs, agribusinesses, and farmers. Before joining IFC, Panos served as the Deputy CEO of the Agricultural Bank of Greece (2004-2009). From 1987 to 2004, he worked at the World Bank in various positions at the International Commodities Division, the International Trade Division, the Bank’s Research Department, and finally at the Agricultural and Rural Development Department where he oversaw a global program on commodity risk management. Panos holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in New York.
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2022-12-12 19:00:00
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Fintech Nexus - LatAm
Fintech Nexus is Latin America’s leading event for innovation in financial services. 65+ industry experts and changemakers will share their experiences, expertise, and strategies at Fintech Nexus LatAm 2022.
Fintech Nexus sponsors and exhibitors are industry experts here to help you identify new revenue channels and solve big problems.
Our CEO Matt Gamser will be joining Fintech Nexus as a speaker. Register Now to join him and other SME finance experts in Miami.
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SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - 2022 December 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
December Marketplace Session
This monthly marketplace session, scheduled on Wednesday, December 7th from 8 am - 9 am EDT, will feature a series of insitutions who will present their products/services.
Following the presentations, participants can reach out directly to the presenters to make inquiries or explore partnership opportunities.
COMPANIES PITCHING
AuxCode
AuxCode is an owner-managed digital product company, specialized in long-term technology enterprises. With main offices in Netherlands and Bulgaria, and branches in Germany and Norway, the organization has access to exceptional talent and dynamic markets. AuxCode’s IT professionals are 100% client-facing and unshared, and service customers in Europe, Canada and LatAm. The company operates proprietary software for SME Financing, Renewable Energy development, and Conversational AI.
NowNow
NowNow Digital Systems (“NowNow”) is an African centric financial technology company that drives financial empowerment across SME’s, Agents, and Consumers. Founded in 2018 in Lagos, Nigeria, NowNow has a team of 400, digitized over $2bn in transactions since inception, and is fully licensed and regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria, Central Bank of Angola, and Central Bank of Equatorial Guinea. NowNow is Africa’s only truly embedded finance fintech with its proprietary hardware, technology platform, and products.
Tiger Analytics
Tiger Analytics offers the following services and solutions: AI and Data Science, Engineering Services - including Cloud Engineering, Data Engineering, ML Engineering and Platform Engineering - but also BI and Data Consulting services. Headquartered in the US, they have presence across other locations, like Canada, Mexico, UK, India, Singapore, Philippines, and Australia and work with clients in more than 35 countries currently.
Uplinq
Uplinq is the first, global alternative credit scoring & assessment platform for SMB Lenders. Leveraging insights & analytics derived from over $1.4 Trillion in underwritten loans & 10,000+ data sources over a 15-year period, Uplinq empowers SMB lenders to approve and manage risk on loans they would have otherwise declined based on traditional underwriting criteria, by incorporating billions of environmental, market & community data to better understand the loan applicant. Uplinq’s proven credit diagnostic solution enables lenders to say “Yes” more often, while lowering risk, improving margins and ensuring regulatory compliance.
PRESENTERS
Alex Lazarov has 25 years of international business experience, having managed at organizations, such as Bank of America, Creditinfo Group, and Equifax, and is the founding partner at AuxCode. He focuses on building partnerships and creating Unique Value Propositions. He is currently involved in development projects in SME financing, SME invoice clearing, and Renewable Energy solutions.
Alex is the co-founding partner of Stichting Bedrijfsfinanciering - an SME finance match-making platform based in the Netherlands.
Fred van der Werff brings 24 years of experience in B2B markets and a senior management career with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). He has worked on government projects across Europe, including SME finance projects with EZK, British Business Bank and European Commission. He has extensive experience in Sales and Business Development, Business Consultancy and Analyses, Marketing & Product development, and Project management. Fred holds a master's degree in Economics from the Erasmus University. Fred is the co-founding partner of Stichting Bedrijfsfinanciering - an SME finance match-making platform based in the Netherlands.
Matthew Francis started his professional career in investment banking in San Francisco working at Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Bank of America Securities. He also worked in technology at Oracle in Silicon Valley overseeing enterprise cloud efforts in the Pacific Northwest of the USA. Since living in the Middle East, Mr. Francis has helped a small group of industry leading, technology driven, private equity firms from the United Sates with their capital raising efforts in the GCC. Currently, Mr Francis is the Chief Strategy & Investment Officer for NowNow Digital Systems helping the company with corporate governance, partnerships, and fundraising.
Durjoy Patranabish holds the responsibility of building strategic client relationships across the world. He comes with over 25 years of industry experience and has incubated and built advanced analytics practices at various organisations. Having started his Analytics journey with CapitalOne, Durjoy has held various Analytics leadership roles across organisations, including IBM. He brings in a deep understanding of how the BFSI industry can derive significant RoI by using AI and Automation in the right business contexts. Currently Durjoy is VP Global Business at Tiger Analytics.
Patrick Reily is an elite mathematician, economist and 30+ year FI veteran. He is an early AI pioneer in financial services, a frequent speaker at the G20 & World Bank and a consultant to the US Fed Reserve. Pat is a co-founder at Uplinq, with a mission of working with small business lenders globally to extend working capital into the hands of small business owners worldwide.
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Women’s Entrepreneurship Finance Community of Practice (CoP)
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BUILDING RESILIENT W-MSME PORTFOLIO’s – Client Acquisition and Growth Strategies
Background
The objective of the Women Entrepreneurs Financing Community of Practice (CoP) is to effectively share knowledge and best practices, tools and innovative products to facilitate increased services to W-SMEs. To discuss and agree on how best to build a sustainable community of practice, we organized the first meeting on December 16th, 2020. Its purpose was to discuss and agree on priority areas of focus and how to best structure the CoP to serve members on how best to build a sustainable community to effectively share lessons learned on increasing financial services to W-SMEs.
During our next WEF CoP meeting, volunteers from ACLEDA Bank will share practical insights into their impressive programs and metrics for supporting W-SMEs. They will dive deep into their strategy and approach to sustaining their women’s market leadership.
In Cambodia, as with all economies, women-led businesses play a critical role. They generate income for vulnerable populations and promote economic growth and social stability.
ACLEDA, the largest lender in Cambodia focuses on providing responsible financial services to Women MSMEs–the Bank’s women borrowers account for 56% of total active borrowers. As market leaders ACLEDA sets market standards, including in innovative product development, business development, portfolio and risk management strategies. This has led to portfolio growth, increased market share and a significant impact on W-MSMEs, resulting in sustained profitability and efficiency of the bank, with low levels of NPL during these unprecedented times. More importantly, ACLEDA’s success has positively affected the entire Cambodian financial sector, making it more attractive for international investors.
During our next session, volunteers from ACLEDA will share practical insights into their impressive approaches and methodologies in supporting W-MSMEs.
Objectives:
· Share strategies and approaches in client acquisition and portfolio management.
· Insights on business development, client retention and portfolio monitoring.
· Collection and use of data.
· Building and sustaining resiliency in unfavorable market conditions.
· Facilitate participants' contribution in sharing unique experiences and solutions.
Volunteer:
Phonnary SO - Senior Executive Vice President & Group Chief Operations Officer. Dr. So Phonnary holds a Doctorate of Business Administration and has worked with ACLEDA since August 18, 1993. As Senior Executive Vice President & Group Chief Operations Officer, she is a Bank's Executive Committee member. She is responsible for leading a group of operations that consists of six heads of divisions and one department including the Operations Division, Marketing Division, Product Development Division, Credit Sale Management Division, Financial Services Division, Strategic Planning Division, and Trade Finance Department. She is responsible for strategic planning and day-to-day business of the Bank, development and research for new bank products/services, and products/services sales growth planning and implementation. She is responsible for leading, monitoring, controlling and evaluating the Bank's daily business operations. Dr. Phonnary is the Chairwoman of the Portfolio Management Committee. She is a member of management's Assets & Liabilities Committee, Interest & Price Setting Committee, and Management Credit Committee. She is directly accountable to the President and Group Managing Director. She holds a Doctorate of Business Administration and is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).
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MENA Supply Chain Finance Conference 2022
We are delighted to partner with @BCR for their inaugural MENA Supply Chain Finance 2022 held in cooperation with @ICC UAE on 28-29 November this year in Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
MENA Supply Chain Finance 2022 is attracting a great deal of interest as the event will closely examine the background to current and future growth as the market quickens its development. The region is rapidly growing into a global trading hub between east and west, with open account trading becoming increasingly common.
The adoption of new technologies and the recognition of opportunity by investors, banks and fintechs is creating a very fertile environment.
MENA Supply Chain Finance 2022 is not only for banks and financial institutions but also for fintechs, technology providers, credit insurers and all those with an interest in receivables finance.
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Alternative & Receivables Finance Forum
We are delighted to partner with BCR for their 8th Annual Alternative Receivables Finance Forum 2022 (A&RF), hosted by Clifford Chance on 23-24 November in London.
Join A&RF to discuss tackling fraud and risk management, trends in credit risk management, what is attracting investors to receivables finance, Insights into decentralised finance, embedded finance and open banking, the impact of regulatory regimes, the future of AI and machine learning in credit risk management and many more.
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