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Virtual Roundtable Series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts #18 - Going Beyond Finance
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COVID-19 pandemic brought disruptions to operations of many SMEs. In these challenging times, financial institutions and FinTech companies are helping their SME customers navigate the market not only by providing core financial services, but also through non-financial services, by supporting SMEs’ business development.
On Thursday, August 6, 2020, at 8 a.m. EDT, senior executives from TBC Bank, the largest bank in Georgia; the African Management Institute Initiative, a social enterprise for managers and entrepreneurs across Africa; member Ecobank, a modern pan-African financial institution; and KIU Global, a fintech providing inclusive technology to enterprises in the ASEAN region; will discuss new non-financial services and initiatives launched to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic and support their SME customers.
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 are the beyond finance services panelists’ institutions provide?
What adjustments they made during COVID-19?
What new initiatives have they launched since or in response to COVID-19?
What is the business case for going beyond finance? How do they monitor costs and benefits?
NEW: Extra Time with Speakers!
Want to learn more about an institution or speak directly with a panelist from the roundtable? Join our new Roundtable – Extra Time! This is 30-minute breakout session with one or two of the presenters from the roundtable. Microphones will be unmuted and participants can speak more conversationally, and ask direct questions to the presenters. Each session will be chaired by a SME Finance Forum moderator.
Speaker Josephine Anan-Ankomah, Ecobank and Steve Landman, Kiu Global with SME Finance Forum moderator Matt Gamser, staying in the main room.
Speakers Natia Vacharadze, TCB Bank, and Rebecca Harrison, African Management Institute, with IFC moderator, Olena Prokopovych register here>
Host: Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
Moderator
Joanna Romero is Global Non-Financial Services Specialist in SME Banking and Banking on Women based in Washington, DC. Over the last eight years, she advised banks across Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa on a variety of topics in SME banking including non-financial services as well as strategy, segmentation, customer value proposition and sales effectiveness. Her most recent clients include key players in the banking sectors of Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. Prior to her current role, Joanna was Regional SME Banking and Gender Finance Specialist based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Before joining IFC, Joanna worked in management consulting and private sector development focused on SMEs in Asia and Europe. She has a Master’s degree in International Trade and Investment Policy with a concentration on Finance from The George Washington University in Washington, DC.
About the Speakers
Natia Vacharadze is the tribe lead of business segment management in TBC Bank – the largest bank in Georgia. In Agie structure her team is responsible for the development of products, processes and digital channels (internet and mobile bank) for busines customers as well as for MSME segment value proposition and sales. For last 11 years Natia is working for MSME segment in TBC bank. Prior to joining MSME team, she was a corporate banker in TBC and Procredit Bank Georgia. Natia holds an MBA degree and is a Master of Modern Art History.
Rebecca Harrison is the Co-Founder and CEO of the African Management Institute (AMI), a pan-African company that enables ambitious businesses to thrive through practical tools and training. Under Rebecca’s leadership, AMI has trained over 25,000 people in 15 countries, leveraging a tech-supported blended learning approach. AMI has secured several rounds of investment from African and international impact investors and worked with a range of prestigious clients such as the Mastercard Foundation, DfID, Uber, Shell Foundation, KLM and many others. AMI has been featured by international media including CNN Marketplace Africa, Financial Times and Euronews, and was the only African finalist in the 2014 Wharton global Reimagine prize for innovation in higher education. Previously, Rebecca worked as a foreign correspondent and manager for Reuters News Agency, where she led business coverage in Africa and reported on politics, markets and development from 13 countries in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Rebecca completed her MBA (cum laude) in Entrepreneurship at South Africa’s Gordon Institute of Business Science, where she graduated first in her class and was awarded a Kellogg Foundation grant to conduct research into innovation in low-income markets. She also has a BA (Hons, 1st class) from the UK’s University of Manchester. Rebecca lives in Nairobi, Kenya with her husband and two young sons.
Josephine Anan-Ankomah is currently Ecobank’s Group Executive for Commercial Banking, which means from the Group Office in Lomé, Togo, she heads and runs the entire commercial banking operation of the Ecobank Group in 33 countries across Africa. Her work also focuses on creating relevant solutions to help build African SMEs and Local Corporates, and position them to become viable and sustainable. She is a well-rounded and highly experienced banker with almost three decades’ experience in treasury management, strategy implementation, investment banking and commercial banking. She has held various senior positions within Ecobank such as as Chief Operating Officer for Ecobank West African Monetary Zone/East & Southern African where she supported the expansion of the Ecobank Group into West, Eastern and Southern Africa. In her role as Regional Treasurer covering Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and The Gambia she managed a total balance sheet of over $2.7billion. Before taking up her current role, she was the Managing Director of Ecobank Gambia, where she worked with the team to position the bank as number one bank on the market. Josephine has a BA and an MBA from the University of Ghana and is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. She is passionate about seeing women excel. As Managing Director of Ecobank Gambia, she set up a scholarship scheme for young women going to high school and university. She also mentors several young women. Josephine is also a music hobbyist who has helped shape the Ghanaian gospel music scene and continues to inspire several young singers.
Steve Landman is the Founder and CEO of Kiu Global. Steve is a parallel entrepreneur and angel investor. Prior to Kiu, in his role as the Managing Partner of Lotus Impact, Steve is an enthusiastic pioneer in investing in South East Asia startup ecosystem with technological and financial insight from Silicon Valley. A digital transformation expert, he was one of the first members of Oracle. He has founded and sold over 17 profitable companies. Currently, Steve is the CEO of Kiu Global. Kiu developed a cloud-based business management platform (Kiu BMP), similar to ERP but without the complexity and high cost. Kiu BMP comes with a built in AI credit scoring engine to help SMEs and MSMEs (who are traditionally rejected by traditional financial institutions) gain easier access to loans and credit.
Registration is open for members here.
For more information: please contact: Khrystyna Kushnir.
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Free Webinar: Shariah Governance of Islamic Banking and Finance
Free-webinar on Islamic Banking & Finance By AlHuda CIBE Topic: Shariah Governance of Islamic Banking and Finance by Prof. Dr. Akram Lal Din, Executive Director - ISRA, Malaysia.
Date & Time to Join: Jul 23, 2020, 14:00 Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent ( GMT+5)
Zoom Link https://zoom.us/j/91446234885
Meeting ID: 914 4623 4885
You can also join us at www.facebook.com/alhudacibe/live
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Virtual Roundtable Series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts #17 - Digital Banks dealing with COVID-19
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COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digitization in almost all industries. In the SME banking industry, digital banks appear to have an advantage over incumbent traditional banks in terms of technology preparedness and access to real-time data. Is COVID-19 a perfect storm in which neobanks can demonstrate that data and digits are more resilient than brick and mortar? Are digital banks outperforming the incumbent banks?
On Thursday, July 23, 2020, at 8 a.m. EDT, senior executives from TymeGlobal, a digital banking business operating in Africa and Asia; Fidor, the first digital-only bank based in Germany; Solarisbank, a technology company with a German banking license; Judo Bank, a dedicated SME business bank in Australia; and UBX, a fintech company for financial institutions and SMEs, will discuss how COVID-19 pandemic is affecting digital banks differently, and their long term plans, the competition with incumbent traditional banks, as well as data availability.
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 does COVID-19 affect digital banks differently?
What are the pros and cons of responding to COVID-19 from the digital banking base?
What is the longer terms impact on development of digital banks as alternatives?
NEW: Extra Time with Speakers!
Want to learn more about an institution or speak directly with a panelist from the roundtable? Join our new Roundtable – Extra Time! This is 30-minute breakout session with one or two of the presenters from the roundtable. Microphones will be unmuted and participants can speak more conversationally, and ask direct questions to the presenters. Each session will be chaired by a SME Finance Forum moderator.
After the end of the roundtable, members can join the lively conversation with:
• Speakers: Daniel Seifert and John Januszczak with SME Finance Forum moderator: Matthew Gamser - Stay in main session room.
• Speakers: Coenraad Jonker and Hassan Nasser, with SME Finance Forum moderator: Khrystyna Kushnir - Link to register
Host: Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
Moderator
Khystyna Kushnir is the Knowledge Management Lead at the SME Finance Forum. She has over ten years of work experience in private enterprise and financial sector development. Before joining the Forum, Khrystyna worked as an operations analyst at the Development Economics of the World Bank Group on Doing Business indicators; Women, Business and the Law project; and MSME Country Indicators. Prior to working for the World Bank Group, she was a Research Assistant for Central and Eastern Europe at the Heritage Foundation. Ms. Kushnir also worked, as a Research Analyst, for the Japanese consultancy Washington CORE on Russian and Asian markets. Ms. Kushnir holds MA in International Economic Relations from the American University and is a Fulbright scholar.
About the Speakers
Coenraad Jonker is the co-founder and CEO of Tyme, a digital banking business operating in Africa and Asia. He has more than 23 years’ experience in banking, law and professional services. He began his career with Edward Nathan Corporate Law Advisers in 1996 and became its Chief Executive Officer in 2000. In that year, he also joined Nedcor Investment Bank’s executive committee. In 2005, Coenraad joined Standard Bank as Director of Community Banking where he led a new strategy to extend banking to underserved consumers, adding digital channels and more than a million additional customers to the bank. In 2011, he moved to Deloitte as a Partner. In June 2012, Coenraad launched the fintech start-up Take Your Money Everywhere (TYME). The business was acquired by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) in January 2015. In 2017 he was appointed as Group Executive at CBA, responsible for its international retail banking and insurance business. At the end of 2018 Coenraad led the buy-out of the Tyme business from CBA. Since January this year he is CEO of the Tyme business in Hong Kong and Chairman of TymeBank in South Africa. He holds an MBA and two law degrees with honours. He has held multiple Board positions, including eBank Namibia, Vietnam International Bank (VIB) and PT Bank Commonwealth in Indonesia which he chaired until December 2018.
Hassan Nasser is the Chief Innovation Officer at Fidor. Hassan is responsible for directing design and bringing high-quality next gen products to market, resulting in hyper-personalized customer experiences. With an engineer mindset, he builds award-winning products, while also being a long-term strategic thinker with a decision-driven approach towards strategic partnerships and strategic technologies. Hassan has more than 10 years of experience of consultancy practice globally, banking experience which spans across Digital Banking, Open Banking APIs, Risk & Compliance, Core Banking, Consumer Lending and CX Channels, and has led multiple Digital Banking initiatives at Fidor.
Dr. Daniel Seifert is Chief Operating Officer of Solarisbank since February 2020. As a proven operations expert for processes and technologies in banking, he is responsible for all banking processes as well as the scaling and further development of the operations domain at Solarisbank. Before joining Solarisbank, Daniel worked for UBS Asset Management for more than five years. There, his most recent responsibility was setting up and managing the operations and customer service of a new technology-driven B2B2C business with teams in three countries. Prior to this, he worked for almost ten years as a consultant with a focus on banking operations and technology at McKinsey & Company.
Chris Bayliss is the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Judo Bank. Chris is a career international banker with 35 years’ experience. His career has spanned many global banks and markets, including Barclays, HBOS, Clydesdale / Yorkshire Bank, Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), National Australia Bank (NAB) and most recently Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore. A truly rounded banking executive, Chris has experience in Business Credit Risk Management, Operational Risk Management, Back Office Operations, Technology, SME Business Banking and Personal Banking Sales and Service. As Executive General Manager of NAB Retail Banking (2010-2012), Chris led a team of 7,500 bankers across circa 800 branches throughout Australia, covering Personal and Small Business Banking. As the Global Head of Personal Banking (including Small Business Banking) at Standard Chartered Bank, responsible for a portfolio covering 60,000 staff across over 40 countries, banking over 12 million customers. In this role, Chris was responsible for consolidating 40+ individual country strategies into one global bank strategy (supported by a unified CVP, global products, systems and channels). In SME banking, Chris draws on his direct experience as a SME credit analyst (Barclays Bank / HBOS 1990-1995), SME Relationship Manager (Yorkshire Bank 1995-1999), Head of SME Credit (Clydesdale Bank 1999), Chief Risk Officer, including SME credit (BNZ 2002-2004), Head of SME Banking (as part of COO portfolio – Yorkshire Bank 2004). As the leader of the Retail Bank of BNZ, NAB and Standard Chartered (2007-2016) Chris’s portfolio has included Small Business customers. Chris has developed a strong personal brand as a developer, motivator and leader of people. His leadership style has been profiled by Gary Hamel in the Wall Street Journal, Gary Hamel’s 2012 book “What Matters Now” and also by the London Business School. Chris is an Associate of the British Bankers Association (ACIB) and has a specialised Financial Service MBA from Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
John Januszczak was appointed President & CEO of UBX after joining UnionBank as a Consultant in 2018. Prior to UnionBank, John served as the Chief Operating Officer of Manulife Philippines. Over the years, John has successfully led operations and technology in various positions including head of global business process management at Manulife Financial and Vice President of Product Management at Meta Software Corporation.
John has a degree in Astrophysics from the University of Toronto.
Registration is open for members here.
For more information: please contact: Khrystyna Kushnir.
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Relief Measures Available for Women Entrepreneurs During and Post COVID-19
New Faces New Voices Rwanda in collaboration with the SME Response Clinic will be hosting a live discussion focused on existing government relief measures that can help support women entrepreneurs during and post COVID-19. The discussion will be hosted on the SME Response Clinic’s Facebook page at 3:00 pm on July 16 and will be held primarily in Kinyarwanda, and it is organized by SME Finance Forum member AFR.
The panel will be moderated by Ida Ingabire, Secretariat at New Faces, New Voices Rwanda and Ruziga Emmanuel Masantura, Business Jounalist, Rwanda Broadcasting Agency
This discussion will be the first of a two-part conversation with key stakeholders in the Rwandan economy. The second webinar, scheduled for July 30, will focus on how financial services providers are addressing the specific needs of women entrepreneurs in the face of COVID-19.
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ExO World: Small Business Summit!
ExO World: Small Business Summit! is a global one-day online event which features speakers from various industries and disciplines. The entire event will be live-moderated by Salim Ismail and will carry us from the current challenges facing our world to envisioning positive future scenarios and finding our own individual role in making this future a reality, NOW! The main theme of the event is Surviving 2020, Creating a Thriving Future, and is organized in partnership with the SME Finance Forum.
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Afro-Asian Fintech Festival 2020
The 2nd Afro-Asia FinTech Festival will bring together FinTech entrepreneurs, financial industry & telco leaders, tech investors, government & central bank representatives and development agencies professionals and it is organized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, that also organises the Singapore FinTech Festival. The SME Finance Forum will be represented by our CEO, Matt Gamser.
In 2019, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced a FinTech partnership and launched the inaugural Afro-Asia FinTech Festival. The Afro-Asia FinTech Festival is the first of its kind in the region that recognises the huge opportunity of bringing together FinTech innovations across Africa and Asia. With Kenya and Singapore as the launch pads for connections, collaborations and the exchange of ideas, the partnership addresses real world problems through FinTech. The first Afro-Asia FinTech Festival took place in Nairobi and brought together close to 2,000 participants from 43 countries across Africa, Asia and other parts of the globe to exchange ideas, forge partnerships and nurture thriving FinTech ecosystems. Read more here.
Find out more at: https://afroasiafintech.net
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MAS - fintech@mas.gov.sg
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