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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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2022-11-29 19:00:00
2022-11-29 19:00:00
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).
Registration is open for members on Member's portal.
By registering for this event, you agree to the SME Finance Forum/IFC Event Privacy Notice.
Read about the work of our CoPs.
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2022-11-27 19:00:00
2022-11-27 19:00:00
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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2022-11-22 19:00:00
2022-11-22 19:00:00
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.
See the full agenda here: http://ow.ly/7OB850Kr3sZ.
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ноя 16, 2022
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2022-11-15 19:00:00
2022-11-15 19:00:00
Risk Management Community of Practice (CoP) - ESG Risk Monitoring using AI
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 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;
• 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.
ESG risk monitoring using AI
Effective credit risk management requires financial institutions to evaluate the characteristics of both the borrower and the loan to understand the probability of default and to calculate the expected loss. Characteristics of the borrower could include character, capacity, and capital, while loan characteristics could factor in conditions and collateral among others.
However, a well-rounded evaluation of the borrower and the loan must also include environmental, social, and governance factors (ESG). For example, potential or actual changes to the physical or natural environment (e.g., pollution, resource use); potential or actual changes to surrounding community and workers (e.g., health and safety, supply chain); and corporate governance structures and processes by which companies are directed and controlled (e.g., board structure and diversity, ethical conduct, disclosure, and transparency).
Accurate and timely ESG data and analysis are critical for monitoring of ESG risks. However, the quality, types, and frequency of data collection vary greatly across financial institutions.
Join this meeting on November 16, 2022, at 8 AM EST to learn and discuss:
- What types of ESG data do financial intuitions collect? How are the data collected and analyzed?
- How are ESG data factored in borrowers' risk assessment?
- What are the main lessons learned regarding the cost and benefits of collecting and analyzing ESG data?
CoP Chair:
Syed Abdul Momen is the head of SME Banking at BRAC Bank. He joined BRAC Bank in August 2005 and has been instrumental in making BRAC Bank the undisputed leader in the small business lending space in Bangladesh. He has over 18 years of multifaceted experience in the Banking Sector across Technology, Operations and Business Functions.
Presenter:
Deyi WU is the Head of AI Asset Management Business in WeBank responsible for product development and commercialization of financial products by leveraging alternative data such as satellite imageries and geospatial data combined with AI technology to generate quantitative insights and ESG products.
Discussant:
Caroline Bright is the IFC’s Regional ESG Advisory Lead for Latin America, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Turkey, Middle East and Pakistan. Caroline is responsible for rolling out IFC’s integrated ESG advisory program to support IFC's strategic priorities, promoting better sustainability practices in firms and financial institutions. Caroline has over 20 years of experience working with firms and financial institutions in emerging markets. She has supported clients on their strategic development, micro and small business banking, and improving the risk management of banks and microfinance institutions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. She has served on several supervisory boards of microfinance organizations in Eastern Europe, and advised various firms on board efficiency and the integration of corporate responsibility, including environmental and social aspects, into governance processes..
Host - Matthew Gamser, CEO SME Finance Forum
Registration is open for members on Member's portal.
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2022-11-08 19:00:00
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SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - 2022 November 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
November Marketplace Session
This monthly marketplace session, scheduled on Wednesday, November 9th 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.
Read event summary here>
COMPANIES PITCHING
AIForesee
AIForesee, is an innovative credit scoring company based in Indonesia that leverages alternative data and machine learning algorithms targeting MSMEs that apply for productive loans.
Bankograph
Fintech payment facilitator using an AI-driven configurable technology platform to enable banks to overcome barriers and efficiently and compliantly finance MSMEs across ASEAN.
JUMO
JUMO is a financial technology company that partners with banks, NGOs and other e-commerce players to deliver progressive financial choices to customers in emerging markets across Africa and Asia.
Following the presentations, participants can reach out directly to the presenters to make inquiries or explore partnership opportunities.
PRESENTERS
Alexander Gold is the CEO of Bankograph. He is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years in banking and asset management experience across Europe and Australia.
His skillset is in card payments and complex financial product design.
Christian Limawan is the CEO of AIForesee, an innovative credit scoring company based in Indonesia that leverages alternative data and machine learning algorithms targeting MSMEs that apply productive loans. Prior to leading AIForesee, he was the Business Development Manager for Special Projects at OVO (e-money company in Indonesia), while he started his career as Business Consultant at CRIF (multinational credit bureau company) in Indonesia with the latest role as Regional Business Consultant for CRIF businesses in Southeast Asia.
Paul Whelpton is Chief Analytics Officer at Jumo. Prior to joining JUMO, Paul spent seven years in various senior roles running analytics teams at Standard Bank. He was most recently the executive responsible for product and pricing across the South African business. Paul’s banking experience spans retail, business and commercial with a specific focus on generating profit from data and analytics.
He holds a BCom from the University of Pretoria, an MBA from Gordon Institute of Business Science, and is a graduate of Harvard Business School.
By registering to this event, you agree to the SME Finance Forum/IFC Event Privacy Notice.
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Core Features & Capabilities of the SME Finance Marketplace
To learn how to set up a company profile, a listing and an individual profile, please read the User Manual in this link.
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