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Invitation to be featured in the Global SME Finance Forum 2020 – Fintech Pitch
We are now accepting submissions for fintechs to be featured in the prestigious Fintech Pitch during this year’s Global SME Finance Forum 2020 Virtual Edition, 26-28 October. Traditionally, the Fintech Pitch is one of the most exciting features of the SME Finance Forum Annual Meeting, as 10 selected fintechs present their company and technology live onstage to the hundreds of senior industry experts and banks. To accommodate this year’s “Virtual Edition”, the ten selected entries will be featured as live recordings during the event, and all eligible submissions will be included in a “Virtual Marketplace” searchable by all event attendees at their leisure throughout the event and beyond.
We invite interested Fintech to submit their applications prior to September 21st 5PM EDT.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested fintechs should fill out a short application form available here.
Only submissions that include a link to a Vimeo or YouTube video presentation - with appropriate access rights for review and use by SMEFF – will be considered
GUIDELINES
Submissions should be a video of the company representative speaking to a presentation of slides, video footage, or actual product demo, as if the speaker were speaking live to an audience.
Submissions must not exceed 4 minutes in length. Videos that exceed the requested length will be cut at 4:00 minute without further notice.
Submissions should seek to highlight the real tangible benefit of the solution to improve SME access to finance. If practicable, the submission should speak to:
The details of the solution and use case for deployment.
Real images of the technology, for perspective.
Markets in which the solution is live or focused.
Plans for expanding deployment of the solution.
Opportunities for collaboration with banks or other industry participants.
KEY DATES
Deadline for submission of applications: September 21st 5PM Eastern Daylight Time
Fintech Pitch selection to be announced: October 12th
Actual presentations on 26th and 27th October (5 on each day)
JUDGING CRITERIA
The key objective of the Fintech Pitch is to share information with industry participants, highlighting technology solutions that are available to lenders to solve the real-world challenges impacting SME access to finance. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the SME Finance Forum and invited industry experts, who will consider the following criteria, among others:
Uniqueness & Innovation
Is the product or solution a new and cutting-edge innovation? How original is the idea compared to solutions that are currently in use?
Reach
What is the number of MSMEs positively affected by the product or solution, whether directly or indirectly, and within what timeframe?
Effectiveness & Impact
Did the project/product/service achieve its objectives and targets? What measures have been used to assess its success? What was the impact to your company and industry?
Dynamism & Scalability
How scalable is the product or solution to accommodate significant demand? How difficult is the implementation and support efforts for the product or solution? How flexible is the product or solution to broader adoption outside of its home country?
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
We have compiled some frequently asked questions to guide your submission process. Please read through all of them as they may answer many of your questions. If your question has not been answered, you can send an email requesting clarification.
Is participation in the Fintech Pitch open to anyone?
Yes, financial technology companies across the globe are invited and encouraged to apply. We welcome entries from across the spectrum of institutions of any size or maturity that are serving the SME sector!
On what basis will the 10 presentations be selected?
The key objective of the Fintech Pitch is to share information with industry participants, highlighting technology solutions that are available to lenders to solve the real-world challenges impacting SME access to finance. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the SME Finance Forum and invited industry experts, who will consider the following criteria, among others: Uniqueness & Innovation, Reach, Effectiveness & Impact, and Dynamism & Scalability.
We may consider to include sensitive information/data as part of our submission. Who will have access to our entry and how might this information be used?
We strongly encourage you to share only information and data which you are prepared to see in the public domain. Selected presentations will be presented in a “live” virtual setting during the Global Forum, and subsequently available on the SME Finance Forum website for later review by attendees. All submissions satisfying our eligibility requirements will be posted to the Virtual Marketplace, from which attendees can select to view at their own convenience.
Should we attach any documents to our entry?
No. Please only complete the application form and include the video link by Vimeo or YouTube.
What happens if my presentation is not selected for the Fintech Pitch?
All submissions satisfying our eligibility requirements will be posted to the Virtual Marketplace. This will permit all the attendees to view the presentations at their own convenience.
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For more information, please send your email to smefinanceforum@ifc.org
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SMEs in Africa and the impact of COVID-19
Our CEO Matthew Gamser participated in a panel about SMEs in Africa and the impact of COVID-19, in the TV Digital SME Event, organized by Afrique Today TV. Watch the streaming below:
Afrique Today Digital TV, *Topic:* Incentivization, formalization and Productivity of small and medium enterprises in Africa: COVID 19 & 2019 Africa Continental Free Trade Area
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Alliance Hack - Driving the Female Economy
The Financial Alliance for Women is organizing the "Alliance Hack - Driving the Female Economy". The hackathon is hosted in partnership with the Singapore Fintech Festival on the APIX platform and will take place September 26-30. Registration is open now – REGISTER HERE
The Alliance Hack aims to support innovative and inclusive business solutions to unlock the full value of the female economy, in any of the following sectors: banking, wealth, insurance, and payments.
The Hackathon offers business and technical workshops and mentoring; access to the APIX sandbox for participating teams to validate their solutions and support to develop pitches for the judges panel. Excellent prizes for winners, include a $25,000 USD cash prize and up to US$ 25,000 credits from AWS for the winning team, and top three winners will benefit from an automatic entry into the finals for Mastercard’s award-winning Start Path program and complimentary year-long membership to the Financial Alliance for Women. Find more details here.
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Seamless North Africa 2020
The future of fintech across North Africa
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Seamless North Africa is about how we deliver modern, technology driven financial services in one of the world’s most promising economies. Banks, Governments, Telcos and Merchants alike are having to rapidly adapt to a new financial landscape that is quickly being dominated by fintech disruptors. In this ever-evolving reality, collaboration is the key to survival. Seamless will bring together the entire financial ecosystem to discuss, debate and evaluate the future of money. Across 2 days of keynote presentations, panels, case studies, interviews, demos, roundtables and workshops, you’ll discover the trends, disruptors and innovations that are revolutionising the industry as we know it. Seamless is North Africa’s biggest, boldest and best event covering payments and financial services innovation.
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Virtual Roundtable Series on COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts #21-Bank & FinTech partnerships post COVID
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Novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has created new challenges, which require new solutions. In the field of SME finance these challenges could not be solved without agile FinTech companies. That is why so many banks around the world are partnering with, and in some cases acquiring, FinTech companies to provide solutions for their SME clients. Collaboration and partnership between them could be key to finding solutions in the new environment created by the pandemic.
On Thursday, September 10, 2020, at 8 a.m. EDT, senior executives from LendIt Fintech, the world’s largest event on technology’s impact on financial services; RTGS.global, the world’s cross-border liquidity network; member Kabbage, a U.S.-based online lending platform for small enterprises recently acquired by American Express; and GlobalLinker, an AI powered platform ‘Building a Global Community of Digitized SMEs’, will discuss new trends and developments in partnerships between FinTech companies, banks and governments; and who and how they are partnering with to overcome the constraints imposed by COVID-19.
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 about
What are the trends in partnerships between banks and FinTech companies post COVID-19?
What are the keys to successful partnerships?
What are the major reasons for disappointments?
What can policymakers do to promote successful partnerships?
Is COVID-19 helping or hindering these partnerships?
Host & Moderator: Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum
About the Speakers
Bo Brustkern is co-founder and CEO of LendIt Fintech, the world’s largest event series that provides context to the rapidly-changing universe of technology’s impact on financial services. For over 20 years, Mr. Brustkern has set himself apart as a leader in understanding, funding, and leading cutting-edge developments in fintech and financial services. Mr. Brustkern’s experience includes private equity, venture capital, fixed income, asset management, and investment research. In addition to co-founding LendIt Fintech, Mr. Brustkern co-founded Arcstone Valuation (2006), Arcstone Equity Research (2010), Cardinal Rose Group (2013), and NSR Invest (2013). Previously, he was a venture capitalist at Rustic Canyon Partners in Silicon Valley, and a private equity investor at BACE Industries in Denver, Colorado. Prior to his career as a private equity investor, Mr. Brustkern was a senior analyst at Wellsford Residential Property Trust (NYSE: WRP), where he focused on acquisitions and development for the fifth-largest residential REIT in the country. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, concentration in Finance, from the Anderson School at UCLA, with distinction as a Deutschman Venture Fellow (2001).
Nick Ogden is the founder and Chief Executive of RTGS.global. RTGS.global validates liquidity transparency around transactions matched to multi-currency payment instructions. RTGS.global aims to deliver transactional integrity, security, risk reduction and settlement finality to central and commercial banks globally. An entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in banking, payments and fintech, Nick Ogden is internationally recognised as the inventor of ecommerce, building the world’s first e-commerce store, the Wine Warehouse in 1994. Nick is the founder of ClearBank and serves as a main board director. ClearBank® is the first new UK clearing bank in 250 years. Founded in 2014, ClearBank® serves regulated financial institutions in the UK and employs 300 people in London.
Prior to ClearBank, Nick founded and led two other significant Fintech companies. The most notable of these is WorldPay, which he launched in 1997. The first internet payment service to guarantee transactions worldwide, Nick led WorldPay to grow to over 270 employees, and 20,000 customers across 120 countries and e-commerce transactions more than $2 billion per year. During its development from 1994, Nick Created BarclaySquare, a Joint venture with Barclays Bank which was the first bank endorsed e-commerce shopping mall in the world. Following WorldPay, Nick founded the Voice Commerce Group, which launched VoicePay a biometric payments platform in 2007. VCG became the UK’s first non-bank payments institution, in 2009. Re-branded as Cashflows, it became the first European non-bank principal member of VISA and Mastercard and an agency bank under agreement with HSBC. Nick has been recognised for many industry awards including the UK Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Computer World Global IT Leaders award, the ID People Awards, the National Business Awards UK Entrepreneur of the Year, The EPA 2017 Payments Industry Contributor of the Year Award and the 2107 Banking Technology Tech Leadership Award. Nick was the winner of the 2018 Payments Pioneer Awards and highly commended in the City AM UK Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In 2019 Nick was selected as one of The World's Top 50 Innovators, a CODEX initiative held at the Royal Society in London and in October 2019 he won the UK Payments Pioneer Award. In addition to his ClearBank® roles, Nick is non-executive chairman, of ING backed Funding Options, a non-executive director of Visa® backed ShieldPay and Executive Chairman of Business.co.uk..
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.
Satyam Agrawal is the President ASEAN & Global Head of Financial Services at GlobalLinker. GlobalLinker is an AI powered platform ‘Building a Global Community of Digitized SMEs’ with a growing community of over 300,000 SMEs from over 150 countries. Satyam’s role at GlobalLinker is to partner with leading Banks and Corporations to transform the way SMEs are served. He is also responsible for enabling financial services to be offered to SMEs on the Platform in a contextual and personalized way. In his prior role as Managing Director and Head of Retail Business Banking for Asia Pacific at HSBC, Satyam was responsible for delivering the growth ambitions of HSBC in this segment. Satyam set up four new markets including China, India, Malaysia and Indonesia hiring over 400 people. Satyam delivered key digital proposition including Digital Lending, Partnership with a leading E-Commerce Platform and the ‘Fusion’ Brand which won HSBC the EuroMoney award for the Best SME bank for 2019. Prior to HSBC, Satyam was the Global Head of Products for Retail Assets and Business Banking at Standard Chartered Bank overseeing 20 Countries.
About the discussant
Lesly Goh is a Senior Advisor, former World Bank Director, and Chief Technology Officer. She is a Fellow at Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) Judge Business School and Senior Fellow at National University of Singapore (NUS) Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Lesly is a Professor of Practice at ZheJiang International Business School (ZIBS). She frequently gives lectures on Data Governance, FinTech and Digital Government Transformation. Her expertise is in leveraging Cloud technology to deliver agile solutions at scale for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) at the intersection of technology and policy frameworks. For almost 30 years, her experience on FinTech, RegTech, GovTech spans across both the private and public sectors. Lesly’s experience covers a broad spectrum ranging from Capital Markets, Retail Banking, Commercial Banking, Asset Management, Development Banks and Financial Data Providers. She has worked extensively on the practical application of Disruptive Technology such as Blockchain, AI and IoT. A few strategic initiatives where she applied Disruptive Technology to address Development challenges: Implementation of Bond issuance on Blockchain, which raised 110M AUD on Aug 23, 2018. Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Famine – project was announced at the United Nation General Assembly on Sept 23, 2018. Her personal mission is to empower Women and Girls to achieve the highest potential with Technology as the Equalizer. Here is her TEDxTalk and her story: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leaving-microsoft-empower-women-change-wo.... She was featured in the GovInsider Report 2019: Women Leaders in Government https://govinsider.asia/data/lesly-goh-senior-technology-advisor-world-b.... Her blogs: https://blogs.worldbank.org/team/lesly-goh
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:
Speaker Bo Brusktkern, Lendit and Nick Ogden, RTGS.global, with SME Finance Forum moderator Matthew Gamser, staying in the main room.
Speaker Sam Taussig, Kabbage and Satyam Agrawal, GlobalLinker, with SME Finance Forum moderator, Khrystyna Kushnir, register here>
A blog summary will be posted soon.
For more information: please contact: Khrystyna Kushnir.
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GSG Global Impact Summit
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How can impact investment drive global change? Join the Summit to find answers to this question!
The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) is hosting its annual flagship Global Impact Summit from September 9-11, 2020. The Summit will bring together leaders across the world to discuss the actions we must take to achieve a just and impact-led Covid-19 recovery that benefits all people and our planet.
Their virtual space will inspire you to share your progress and collaborate with a wide variety of interactive formats; networking roundtables, 1:1 meeting rooms, and deep-dive workshops. Register today to hear from and speak with a powerful coalition of individuals on topics including impact measurement and the role of impact investment in addressing climate change and social challenges.
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