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Virtual Roundtable Series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts #3: Alibaba and Ant Financial - Integrating market and financial assistance
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These weekly sessions are organized by the SME Finance Forum to provide our members with opportunities to share and learn from each other’s experiences in a continuous and real-time basis. The third roundtable of these series will be held on Thursday, April 9, 2020, at 8:00 a.m. EST, to discuss mitigation efforts by financial institutions and FinTech companies operating in China and other Asian countries.
Join us for a joint presentation by Brian Wong, Vice President of Global Initiatives at Alibaba, and Meng Yan, Global Head of International Partnerships, at Ant Financial/MYBank. The speakers will share their experiences on how their integrated financing and market development services, by leveraging platforms, helped SMEs through the COVID-19 crisis. After the presentations, the discussants will share their insights and experiences, and address questions and concerns. In particular, Microcred China will also share how leveraging lessons learned from the China experience was key to establish their crisis teams.
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Brian A. Wong is the Vice President, Global Initiatives, at Alibaba Group Member, Alibaba Academic Council. Brian is an internet executive with over 20 years of management experience in e-commerce and digital media in Greater China, SE Asia, India, the US, and Europe. He presently serves as Vice President of Globalization Initiatives, where his present scope of work focuses on creating capacity building programs for governments and entrepreneurs to demonstrate how e-commerce can promote inclusive development in emerging markets. During his fifteen-year tenure with the firm, Brian served as the Special Assistant to the Chairman for international affairs, the Executive Director of the Alibaba Global Leadership Academy (AGLA), led the company's global sales, marketing, and business development operations, and spearheaded Alibaba.com's international expansion. Brian originally joined the company as its 52nd employee. In previous roles, Brian has held executive positions at the McGraw-Hill Companies and served as Special Assistant to Mayor Willie L. Brown of San Francisco. He is also Founder and Chairman of the digital media platform RADII (www.radiichina.com), an initiative dedicated to bridging understanding between China and the world. Brian has been an advisor to various governments on e-commerce strategies and has been featured as a speaker at international conferences e.g. World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos, the B20, the ASEAN World Economic Forum, the UNCTAD E-commerce Week, was an advisor on CNBC’s TV series "Pop-up Start-up" and a technical consultant for the HBO television series "Silicon Valley". Brian is a graduate of Swarthmore College, the Johns Hopkins (SAIS)-Nanjing Center, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Swarthmore College Council on Presidential Initiatives, a former member of the Wharton School Alumni Board, and a director of the 1990 Institute. Brian was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and is a China Fellow with the Aspen Institute.
Meng Yan is the Global Head of International Partnerships, Senior Advisor to Chairman at Ant Financial Services Group. Ms. Yan is leading Ant Financial’s international cooperation and partnerships, aiming to foster joint efforts with global partners to promote digital financial inclusion. She also plays the role of senior advisor and sherpa to Eric Jing, Ant Financial Chairman on the UN Digital Financing Taskforce. Over the past two decades, Ms. Yan has accumulated solid experience in financial inclusion in emerging markets. From 2006 to 2018, she worked with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. She served as Principal Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager, responsible for IFC’s financial markets investment in Asia and global portfolio management. She has led a number of innovations in climate finance, gender finance, trade finance, and fund mobilization. She began her career with Bank of China as the Chief of Risk Management Division, Financial Institutions Department. She was also a member of the Bank of China Credit Review Committee. Ms. Yan received her B.A. and M.A. in international finance from the Central University of Finance and Economics.
In 2018, together with IFC, Alipay (Ant Financial) launched the 10x1000 Tech for Inclusion Program. The goal is to help emerging markets cultivate tech leaders to become drivers for advancing digital economic development.
Discussants
Bodo Lieberam is the Chief Executive Officer of Microcred China/Baobab. Bodo was appointed Microcred China’s CEO in March 2017. Reporting to the Baobab Group’s Chief Executive Officer, Bodo’s responsibility is to ensure that Microcred China continues reaching a dominant place in a rapidly changing market environment, by digitalizing the whole loan process and by establishing new partnerships with internet platforms. Bodo has been working for Microcred for 15 years. He was particularly involved in the creation and development of several subsidiaries, the most recent one being Microcred Tunisia, and in the optimization of the operations through digital tools. He joined Microcred in 2005 and held several CEO positions within the Microcred network. Prior to joining Microcred, Bodo was General Manager of NovoBanco SARL, Mozambique, where he supervised 6 branches and 250 employees, and President & CEO at Micro Enterprise Bank, Philippines. Prior to this, he served as a consultant for the opening of a new microfinance bank in Macedonia and was a Branch Manager of FEFAD Bank (now ProCredit Bank) in Albania on behalf of Internationale Projekt Consult GmbH, Frankfurt.
Momina Aijazuddin is IFC’s Global Head of Microfinance/ Financial Inclusion and works also as Principal Investment Officer in IFC's Financial Institution Group (FIG). She covers IFC’s microfinance investment and advisory activities globally, which exceeds cumulative investments of US$6 billion worldwide with over 300 MFIs, in addition to advisory services worth $63.7 million in 68 projects across 30 countries. This includes oversight of the work in Responsible Forum (which IFC manages for the GPFI/ G20) and leading projects in digital transformation for MSME focused Banks and MFIs. She is leading IFC’s efforts to scale up private sector commitments with strategic partners in the digital finance, microfinance and fintech space committed to achieving the World Bank Group’s Universal Financial Access by 2020. She was also a core member of the drafting team for the G20 Digital Financial Inclusion Principles. She manages the IFC Boulder strategic partnership and hosts the training for Boulder- IFC Strategic Leadership in Microfinance which has trained almost 350 leaders in the financial inclusion space. Momina brings over 25 years of investment transaction experience in financial services, microfinance, and manufacturing sectors in over 60 countries across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, MENA, and LAC regions. She has spent the last four years heavily engaged with IFC’s financial inclusion efforts in China; including leading banks and MFIs in digital transformation and fintech players. She was recognized as Global 100 top 100 women in 2019 FINTECH by Lattice80, a fintech hub. Momina has served on the Supervisory Board of the Microfinance Initiative for Asia (MIFA), a US$175 million debt fund, launched by IFC and KFW and managed by Blue Orchard and is currently on the Board of Microfinance Enhancement Facility ( MEF).
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Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts: Lessons from Asia
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is causing widespread concern and economic hardship for consumers, and SMEs across the globe. It is also causing understandable distress in institutions involved in financing SMEs. The SME Finance Forum has launched a series of weekly virtual roundtables to bring together senior executives from member institutions to share challenges and experiences with respect to crisis management and response. The roundtables will take up any and all aspects of crisis response, including issues of workforce/operations continuity, loan restructuring, navigating new government initiatives, finance and liquidity management, nonfinancial support to customers, and more.
The second virtual roundtable will be held on Thursday, April 2, 2020, at 8:00 a.m. EDT time. Join Rajeev Chalisgaonkar, Global Head, Business Banking at Standard Chartered Bank, and Henry K. Lam, Co-founder and current CEO of SimpleCredit Micro-Lending Co. Ltd (XYD.CN), who will discuss the lessons learned from China and other Asian countries, and how these institutions are mitigating COVID-19 effects. Rajeev will present relief measures, SME guarantee loans, and other actions taken across Asia through constant communication and best-practice sharing. Henry will share preparedness actions, how they are resuming business and a study case on Agri-finance during the pandemic. After the presentations, we will have Michael Makau, Deputy Director, Business Banking, at NCBA, and other members participating as discussants, who will share their experiences briefly, and start the conversation.
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Rajeev Chalisgaonkar is the Global Head of Business Banking at Standard Chartered Bank. Rajeev has more than 23 years of experience in Corporate, Commercial and Retail Banking across diverse geographies including Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India. Rajeev heads Business Banking for Standard Chartered Bank globally since April 2014. In his previous assignment, Rajeev was Head of Corporate Banking with Barclays Bank India and before that led the SME and Business Banking for Barclays Emerging Markets across 14 countries in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining Barclays, Rajeev worked for Citibank and Export-Import Bank of India holding leadership positions in Central Europe and India. Rajeev completed his MBA at IIM Calcutta. His academic achievements also include a Bachelor of Engineering (Metallurgical Engineering) from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, India.
Henry K. Lam is the Co-founder and current CEO of SimpleCredit Micro-Lending Co. Ltd (XYD.CN). Built a team of over 270 highly educated and experienced talents worldwide. SimpleCredit was established in December 2015 and was granted an online microlending license in China in June 2016. Issued a healthy loan portfolio of >RMB 8 billion for ~1 million customers from NIL in 4 years. Submitted 112 patent applications in 4 years. SimpleCredit nationwide products include online personal loan, POS consumer financing, digital supply chain, and agriculture loan. Its SME lending integrates industrial-specific knowledge, technology, and finance into a complete solution that provides a unique and convenient customer experience. Formerly worked as Head of Risk and Marketing Analytics at Enova International (NYSE:ENVA). With advanced analytical skills acquired from his Ph.D. Physics background, Henry successfully executed in-depth marketing/credit/fraud analytics and designed risk policies for multiple products across 6 countries - US, UK, Canada, Australia, Brazil, and Mexico, with a total loan portfolio size of USD 13.1 billion in 2013. Appointed by executives to launch Enova’s first China joint venture in 2014. Developed a pioneering online lending platform and risk models within 3 months. Built a local elite team from scratch, and ramped up from NIL to RMB 70 million in loans during the first year of business.
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Michael Makau is the Deputy Director, Business Banking at NCBA. An expert in Vehicle & Asset Finance and Leasing, Mr. Michael Makau has worked with four different commercial banks in Kenya and has been instrumental in setting up the functions in two of the banks. An SME practitioner who has been working with SMEs to finance and improve their businesses, Mr. Makau has been instrumental in strategy and product development for the SME sector in the last three years. He has also been in the banking industry for the last 24 years and has worked in various areas namely; Business Development, Debt Recovery, Finance and Reconciliation. He is a personal leadership trainer, certified workplace coach and author of a personal development book titled “Capture your dream through Personal Visioning’. Mr. Makau holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Mathematics and a Master’s Degree in Leadership – Business Entrepreneurship.
Syed Abdul Momen is the Head of SME Banking of BRAC Bank since 2017. Syed Abdul Momen joined BRAC Bank in August 2005. He has 13 years of multifaceted experience in the Banking Sector primarily concentrating on Technology, Operations and Business Functions. During the first 2 years in BRAC Bank, he restructured technology infrastructure and played a crucial role in the Core Banking Platform migration. In August 2007, Momen was posted in BRAC Afghanistan Bank as Chief Operating Officer (COO) on a 2-year secondment. During his tenure in Afghanistan, he looked after the bank's SME Business & expanded bank's network in three provinces. He has also contributed to the development of SME Banking Policies & Guidelines of Central Bank of Afghanistan. After his return from Afghanistan in 2009, he joined BRAC Bank's SME Division and ran a special collection project, which was the portfolio's prime concern. After successfully driving the countrywide collection initiative, he was appointed as the Head of Small Business in July 2010 and since then he is leading the industry's largest small business portfolio. His team was awarded Chairman's Excellence Award in 2012 for extraordinary business achievement. Mr. Momen started his career in ANZ Grindlays Bank in 1999 where he played an instrumental role in the migration of Core Banking Platform in the Middle East & South Asia region including Bangladesh, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Nepal, Sri Lanka after the acquisition of Grindlays Bank's operation by Standard Chartered Bank. He was also instrumental in Standard Chartered Bank's IT service delivery & business process centralization Project. Mr. Momen is a Computer Communications Graduate from Middlesex University, the UK with distinction. During his 13 years of banking career, he attended numerous seminars, training, and workshops in and out of the country.
Fangfang Jiang is IFC FIG AS Asia DFS Co-head and FIG AS Country Anchor of China and Mongolia. She joined IFC in 2012 and led the China team to promote financial inclusion through collaboration with banks, NBFIs, Fintech, Association, and government. Her clients cover the systematic banks such as the Postal Savings Bank of China, which has over 500 million customers and 40,000 branches; Leading Fintech players like Ant Financial, the financial arm of Alibaba Group; and MFIs including KB, the Largest Microfinance Bank in Pakistan. Before joining IFC in 2012, she worked as the Head of MSE in Taizhou Commercial Bank, one of the leading SME banks in China with ROE over 30%. She led a team of 300 in 30 branches across 5 different provinces in China. Her responsibilities cover strategic planning, product development, risk management, portfolio management, and staff training. From 2005 to 2010, she worked in IPC, the leading microfinance consulting firm as a bank advisor and provided capacity building to over 10 FIs in China.
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Read a recap here.
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Communities of Practice
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Singapore
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2020-03-31 20:00:00
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Risk Management Community of Practice (CoP) - 2020 Meeting in Singapore
The Risk Management Community of Practice (CoP) is a Member-Only event and it aims to bring together professionals and risk management experts from member institutions of the SME Finance Forum to share their learning, experiences, and good practices examples with their peers. The scale and complexity of financial institutions and the pace of their financial transactions demand that they employ sophisticated risk management techniques and monitor rapidly changing risk exposures. At the same time, advances in IT innovation and solutions have lowered the cost of acquiring, managing and analyzing data, and have enabled considerable and ongoing advances in risk management at leading institutions. Financial institutions in emerging market countries are also increasing their focus on risk management in order to build more robust and sound financial systems, to remedy weaknesses that were exposed by the recent crisis.
The Forum plans to host the next CoP meeting on risk management in Singapore tentatively in May, on the eve of the DBS immersion program, which is now postponed given recent developments related to the COVID-19 outbreak. A new date will be announced soon.
Headquartered in Singapore, DBS is one of Asia's leading banks with over 9 million customers in 18 markets. DBS has been using digital technology and innovation to extend its reach and enhance efficiencies.
The CoP collaborates through
• On-going email and LinkedIn group (this will be a closed member only group) exchanges among CoP members;
• A series of virtual meetings (WebEx) among members of CoP (should there be demand);
• Sharing and discussing specific case studies shared by both members and non-members;
• Exchanging relevant studies, articles and other publications on the topics;
• Where possible, participate in study visits to “good practice” institutions to learn from first hand experiences.
Who should participate in the CoP
• Senior executives working on or responsible for risk management or relevant areas from member institutions of the SME Finance Forum
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SME Finance Forum Immersion Program 2020 - Equity Bank Kenya
SME Finance Forum Immersion Program 2020:
Equity Bank, Nairobi, Kenya
April 2020 (TBC) - SAVE THE DATE
(by invitation only)
The Immersion Programs of the SME Finance Forum are aimed at providing our members with 1-2 day exposure visits to high performing financial institutions or fintech companies to gather in depth knowledge about an innovative aspect of their operations. The immersion programs allow members to hear practical first-hand accounts from the host institution about the unique challenges they faced and the motivation and process for change, as well as lessons learnt.
The Forum will host its second Immersion Program of 2020 to Equity Bank in Nairobi, Kenya, which will be held in April 2020, date to be confirmed. This is an invitation-only event for which the SME Finance Forum is getting members an invitation. Members can of course choose to only attend the Immersion Program.
Learn how one of the most successful regional banks in East Africa transformed from the ultimate labor-based approach to one in which 97% of all transactions now occur digitally. Equity Bank grew from a small building society in Kenya (founded in 1984), through technical insolvency in 1993, into today’s over 10 million customer, pan-African banking group. Equity Bank has been recognised for the last 10 years since 2007 as the Top Banking Super-brand in Kenya. The Banker named it one of the Top 1000 Banks in the World in 2017, and Euromoney named it Africa’s Best Bank in 2016.
The Group is executing the “Equity 3.0” strategy, a bold step that will ensure the Group is able to leverage on breakthrough technology and innovation to achieve a convergence of financial products and services, in addition to seamlessly integrating their delivery channels. At the end of 2018 Equity spun off its tech subsidiary, FinServe, which had been the inspiration for a wealth of mobile banking and other financial inclusion innovations, as a standalone commercial entity. Through Equity Group Foundation, the Group has continued to invest in social and impact investments that have enhanced the growth of its customer. Transformation and modernization of agriculture through agribusiness activities, micro-business enhancement through financial literacy and entrepreneurship training, inclusion through social payments and development of ethical leaders through scholarships under the Wings to Fly scholarship and Equity Leaders Programs are just a few of the several initiatives in this regard.
Agenda and additional details to be announced soon.
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SME Finance Forum Immersion Program 2020: DBS, Singapore
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE:
Given recent developments related to the COVID-19 outbreak, the program has been postponed.
SME Finance Forum Immersion Program 2020:
DBS, Singapore
(by invitation only)
The SME Finance Forum's Immersion Programs are aimed at providing our members with 1-2 day exposure visits to high performing regional or global financial institutions or fintechs to gather in depth knowledge about an innovative aspect of their operations. The immersion visits will allow members to hear practical first-hand accounts from the host institution about the unique challenges they faced and the motivation and process for change, as well as lessons learned.
The Forum will host an immersion program to DBS, Singapore, on a date to be confirmed. Headquartered in Singapore, DBS is one of Asia's leading banks with over 9 million customers in 18 markets. To continue staying at the forefront of the industry, DBS has been using digital technology and innovation to extend its reach and enhance efficiencies. During the two-day program, participants will learn about DBS' digital transformation journey.
1. Agenda
Download the preliminary agenda here.
2. Eligibility
Members of the SME Finance Forum are eligible to participate in the immersion program. We have a limited number of spots available and therefore each interested member institution should nominate one representative to attend.
3. Cost
Members will be charged $500 per attendee, which is non-refundable (except in event of health or other emergencies). The fee can be transferred to another senior employee of the member's institution. While some meals will be provided during the program, attendees are responsible for their own travel, accommodations, other meal and transportation costs.
4. Expression of Interest and Next Steps
Interested members should nominate one attendee per institution and send an expression of interest email to Tarun Srdihar with the following information:
Name of member institution
Name of attendee
Job title of attendee
Contact details of attendee
Please note that spots cannot be guaranteed until registration fees have been paid. Registration fees cannot be refunded. In the event the visit is over-subscribed, applicants will be accepted in the order in which fees are received.
5. Registration
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Register now to join the immersion program.
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Online Discussion Series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts: IFC and Kabbage
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Over a period of less than two weeks, since COVID 19 was officially declared a pandemic by WHO on March 11, 2020, the number of people known to have been infected by the virus has tripled. This week, at least more than 330,000 are known to have the virus in over 150 countries and 14,000 have lost their lives to the virus. More and more countries have taken unprecedented and drastic measures to contain the spread of the virus by closing towns, cities, and national borders, disrupting not only the social lives of the people but also the economies, including millions of SMEs around the world.
During this time of unprecedented crisis, the SME Finance Forum, as a global SME finance community, stands committed to supporting its members and partners. Starting Thursday (March 26, 8:00 a.m. EST) and initially, for the next six weeks, the SME Finance Forum will host an hour-long Webex-based Online Discussion Series for Members on COVID-19 crisis. Each meeting will feature a speaker, who will describe their institution’s mitigation actions and efforts. Speakers will present for the first 10-15 minutes, and then we will open the floor for discussion to share best practices, pieces of knowledge, and concerns in this challenging time. Hence, the weekly sessions are organized to provide members with opportunities to share and learn from each other’s experiences in a continuous and real-time basis.
Each meeting will also focus on several themes (examples below), though all and any questions will be accepted:
Collections/grace periods/other adjustments
Managing disruptions to supply chains and their financing;
Regulator relations/adjustments to prudential norms
Risk management for both existing borrowers and first time (previously non-borrowing) clients
Loan classification and credit information sharing;
Government initiatives
Development finance institutions’ responses
This online discussion will be open to all members, who will be free to suggest others who might benefit from joining as participants, and/or as presenters. The Forum will prepare a written summary after each discussion, that will be shared on the Forum's Members Portal, with access only to members and speakers.
IFC and Kabbage efforts - Thursday, March 26, 2020 - 8:00 a.m. EST
The first discussion of these series will be held this coming Thursday, March 26, 2020, at 8:00 a.m. EST time. Join Momina Aijazuddin, Global Head Microfinance at IFC, and Sam Taussig, Head of Policy at Kabbage, who will discuss how IFC and Kabbage mitigate the economic effects of COVID-19. Members are invited to share their challenges and best practices. Momina will speak about COVID-19’s impact and IFC response, and also about feedback from clients so far in the inclusion space– institutional and market-, including fintech, banks, and MFI holding companies, among others. Sam will share Kabbage’s response.
Speakers
Momina Aijazuddin is IFC’s Global Head of Microfinance/ Financial Inclusion and works also as Principal Investment Officer in IFC's Financial Institution Group (FIG). She covers IFC’s microfinance investment and advisory activities globally, which exceeds cumulative investments of US$6 billion worldwide with over 300 MFIs, in addition to advisory services worth $63.7 million in 68 projects across 30 countries. This includes oversight of the work in Responsible Forum (which IFC manages for the GPFI/ G20) and leading projects in digital transformation for MSME focused Banks and MFIs. She is leading IFC’s efforts to scale up private sector commitments with strategic partners in the digital finance, microfinance and fintech space committed to achieving the World Bank Group’s Universal Financial Access by 2020. She was also a core member of the drafting team for the G20 Digital Financial Inclusion Principles. She manages the IFC Boulder strategic partnership and hosts the training for Boulder- IFC Strategic Leadership in Microfinance which has trained almost 350 leaders in the financial inclusion space. Momina brings over 25 years of investment transaction experience in financial services, microfinance, and manufacturing sectors in over 60 countries across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, MENA, and LAC regions. She has spent the last four years heavily engaged with IFC’s financial inclusion efforts in China; including leading banks and MFIs in digital transformation and fintech players. She was recognized as Global 100 top 100 women in 2019 FINTECH by Lattice80, a fintech hub. Momina has served on the Supervisory Board of the Microfinance Initiative for Asia (MIFA), a US$175 million debt fund, launched by IFC and KFW and managed by Blue Orchard and is currently on the Board of Microfinance Enhancement Facility ( MEF).
Sam Taussig is the Head of Global Policy at Kabbage, Atlanta, GA. Sam has worked in alternative credit space since he experienced how microcredit offered enterprising Zambians a sustainable path out of poverty. Since 2007, Sam has promoted alternative credit across Africa, South America, Asia, the Caribbean, and rural America with a variety of non-governmental organizations and the United Nations. Sam was exposed to policy and government relations work while helping small business owners navigate state and federal regulatory requirements at the Montana Community Development Corporation in Bozeman, MT. Before coming to Kabbage, Sam served as a special assistant to the Head of the United Nations in Indonesia working on upstream policy development using “big data”, project financing, political affairs, and bilateral diplomacy. Sam is responsible for Kabbage’s interactions with state, federal and foreign governments and community development organizations. He covers issues ranging from banking regulations to artificial intelligence, privacy, CRA, and corporate social responsibility.
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