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SME FINANCE FORUM
SME Finance Awards Information Session - CHINESE Applicants
WEBINAR
Add to Calendar 2023-05-04 20:00:00 2023-05-04 20:00:00 SME Finance Awards Information Session - CHINESE Applicants For the SME Financier of the Year category, we are hosting an information session for our Chinese applicants. Contestants can ask questions about the application process and judging criteria.  THiS SESSION will be conducted in MANDARIN by Lechi Zhang, fintech analyst, specialized in helping financial institutions, fintechs, and their investors navigate complex industry landscapes. Register now to get advice on how to prepare the best entry!   If you have questions for any of the other award categories, please contact Ming Li    -------------------------- We invite all types of financial intermediaries to submit an entry in this year’s Global SME Finance Awards competition! Winners of the 6th annual Global SME Finance Awards will be announced at the Global SME Finance Forum on September 12-14 in Mumbai, India.  Don’t delay in getting your entries in as the deadline for submissions is May 31st! Please visit our Awards website for more information. If you have any problem applying, please email us at smefinanceforum@ifc.org WEBINAR SME FINANCE FORUM ronyg@panapps.co America/New_York public
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SME FINANCE FORUM
First Look: Update to the MSME Finance GAP
Add to Calendar 2023-05-01 20:00:00 2023-05-01 20:00:00 First Look: Update to the MSME Finance GAP Joint Event Financial Institutions Group (FIG) and Development Impact Measurement Department (Economics & PSD VPU) First Look: Update to the MSME Finance Gap Lack of access to finance is a key barrier to growth for MSMEs, including women owned MSMEs. IFC is addressing this financing gap and helping small businesses to thrive by providing investments and advisory services to financial institutions and fintech companies and promoting knowledge sharing, through the SME Finance Forum. An industry standard, the MSME Finance Gap is one of the only comprehensive estimated measures of financing gap across EMDEs. It is widely used not only within the WBG but also by various DFIs/ IFIs, banks, other financial institutions, and policy makers. In 2016/17, the MSME Finance Gap report estimated a financing gap of $5.2 trillion dollars for 132 countries covered by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys ($4.6 trillion in EMDEs). Using the same methodology and data sources, how has the MSME Financing Gap in emerging markets changed? What is the outlook in your region or country? What is the Gender Finance Gap? What are the potential opportunities for impact financing?   Join us on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, for a first look at the updated MSME Finance Gap conducted by IFC and the World Bank. The presentation will provide an update on the potential demand for credit by MSMEs in EMDEs, what the current formal credit supply is and the resulting unmet finance Gap. The presentation will also share insights on trends, data limitations, and implications for IFC’s operations. --------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION Registration is open for SME Finance Forum Members on the Member's portal. By registering for this event, you agree to the SME Finance Forum/IFC Event Privacy Notice.   If you are not a member of the SME Finance Forum or a World Bank Group colleague, and interested in participating,  please send an email to Minerva Kotei.   SME FINANCE FORUM ronyg@panapps.co America/New_York public
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SME Finance Awards Information Session - LAC / Africa / Europe Regions
WEBINAR
Add to Calendar 2023-04-27 20:00:00 2023-04-27 20:00:00 SME Finance Awards Information Session - LAC / Africa / Europe Regions For the SME Financier of the Year category, one of the jurors for this year's awards, hosted two information sessions where applicants and potential applicants asked questions about the application process and judging criteria.  Listen to the recording to get advice on how to prepare the best entry! If you have questions about the other award categories, please contact Kyle Krym at kkrym@ifc.org. -------------------------- We invite all types of financial intermediaries to submit an entry in this year’s Global SME Finance Awards competition! Winners of the 6th annual Global SME Finance Awards will be announced at the Global SME Finance Forum on September 12-14 in Mumbai, India.  Don’t delay in getting your entries in as the deadline for submissions is May 31st! Please visit our Awards website for more information. If you have any problem applying, please email us at smefinanceforum@ifc.org WEBINAR SME FINANCE FORUM ronyg@panapps.co America/New_York public
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SME Finance Awards Information Session - MENA / Asia Regions
WEBINAR
Add to Calendar 2023-04-27 20:00:00 2023-04-27 20:00:00 SME Finance Awards Information Session - MENA / Asia Regions For the SME Financier of the Year category, we hosted two information sessions where applicants and potential applicants could ask questions about the application process and judging criteria.  Re-live the session now to listen to the advice on how to prepare the best entry!   If you have questions about the other award categories, please get in touch with Kyle Krym at kkrym@ifc.org. -------------------------- We invite all types of financial intermediaries to submit an entry in this year’s Global SME Finance Awards competition! Winners of the 6th annual Global SME Finance Awards will be announced at the Global SME Finance Forum on September 12-14 in Mumbai, India.  Don’t delay in getting your entries in as the deadline for submissions is May 31st! Please visit our Awards website for more information. If you have any problem applying, please email us at smefinanceforum@ifc.org WEBINAR SME FINANCE FORUM ronyg@panapps.co America/New_York public
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Future of Digital Banking Conference
Add to Calendar 2023-04-19 20:00:00 2023-04-19 20:00:00 Future of Digital Banking Conference ASIA / Singapore Time HYBRID EVENT The link to register as well as the agenda are visible to Members of the SME Finance Forum who are logged in to the Member Portal. Rapid digital innovation is ushering in a new era of changes to financial services products, business models, and markets. This event will connect a regional audience of senior banking executives, digital finance players, and policymakers to discuss the latest trends and technologies transforming the financial landscape around four key topics: Digital Bank, Embedded Finance, Bank Digital Transformation, and Digital Capital Market.  Join us in person or virtually to discover what lies ahead for an industry in flux. Day one of the conference will feature five-panel discussions with more than 20 distinguished speakers from leading financial institutions across Asia. On day two, there will be four roundtables where participants can interact and discuss leveraging digital solutions to promote climate finance and financial inclusion better. The two-day conference will conclude with a study visit to the Singapore Fintech Association, where attendees will meet with representatives from Singapore Fintech Association, Tyme Bank (a leading digital bank), and Syfindo (a regional digital sandbox), followed by a tour (for the in-person attendees) of the Innovation Gallery of the Monetary Authority of Singapore.  Event Overview and Deck Presentations Those are available below to members who are logged in to the Member Portal. SME FINANCE FORUM ronyg@panapps.co America/New_York public
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WEBINAR: Data and AI driving diversity in SME Lending
Add to Calendar 2023-04-18 20:00:00 2023-04-18 20:00:00 WEBINAR: Data and AI driving diversity in SME Lending Relive the event here This webinar is organized in partnership with our member Uplinq        Considerable cultural, economic, and regulatory differences exist around the world that affect accessibility to capital and in particular the opportunity for women and those underserved to launch and grow thriving businesses. Therefore, it should be no surprise that effective solutions to overcome these challenges are best formulated with particular attention to these differences that are unique to each country, lender, borrowers, and loan type.  While the challenges may be unique for each lender, there is good news. The process for diagnosis and treatment is highly codified, scientific, reproducible to virtually any market and lender in a way that delivers high performance and regulatory compliance.  During this session, we will discuss how to overcome these challenges on 3 fronts: Product and Marketing Fitment  The traditional door to door sales officer engagement model almost assures a strategy of perpetuating exclusionary practices. Furthermore, there is a need to adapt loan offering and availability of credit. Underwriting and Relationship Management  Traditional subjective and “expert” underwriting tend to favor the ‘well know and familiar’ and that induces bias toward male-dominated businesses and other established profiles of business success. Training, and Mentorship  First-time entrepreneurs, those without formal business training, first-time formal borrowers and many others can greatly benefit from mentorship which can be the missing link between success and failure.   PRESENTERS Moderator   Elaine MacEachern, Sr. Financial Sector Specialist at World Bank Group Elaine is currently a Global Specialist on the Secured Transactions and Asset Based Lending ( ST/ABL) team for WBG’s financial infrastructure secured lending product based in Washington, DC.  Elaine works with WBG clients in the Asia and Africa regions extensively and regularly contributes to the ongoing Financial Inclusion development agenda of ASEAN and APEC Financial Infrastructure Development Network (FIDN) working groups, as well as the UNCITRAL (Asia Chapter).  Elaine has over twenty years of public and private sector experience in legislative reform projects, specifically in the area of secured transactions/public policy development, movable property registry implementation and development of movable asset-based lending markets in emerging market economies.  Panelists Patrick Reily, CEO - Uplinq Financial Technologies  Patrick 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. 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 understand the loan applicant better. Uplinq’s proven credit diagnostic solution enables lenders to say “Yes” more often, while lowering risk, improving margins and ensuring regulatory compliance.   Mario Schlener, Leader Financial Services Risk Management (FSRM) Practice and Enterprise Risk Strategy Canada and Global FS Risk Technology/Alliance/Innovation Lead - Ernst & Young Mario leads EY’s Financial Services Risk Management and Enterprise Risk Strategy Practice in Canada and Co-leads EY’s AI model performance platform product “ShEYzam”. Mario is also part of the Global Leadership team for the FS Risk Consulting practice and contributes to several global regulatory initiatives on AI Fairness, Explainability, Privacy, Digital Assets and Open banking. He brings over 25 years of experience in advising banks and/or bad banks in restructuring their portfolios, developing hedging strategies for increasing risk-/return profile in their portfolio structures; in developing/validating qualitative and quantitative risk- (incl. credit, market, CCR, ALM and OpRisk), rating- (AIRB, EC, IFRS9) and capital markets- (incl. XVA,VAR) models, in leading ERM transformation projects for GSIB’s and DSIB’s.   Ayo Olojede, Group Head, Emerging Businesses - Access Bank Ayo has over 20 years of operational banking experience in Africa and North America at HSBC and Skye Bank (now Polaris) prior to joining Access Bank. She is very passionate about the sustainable growth of MSMEs and possesses strong knowledge and hands on experience of best practices in SME banking, value propositions and risk management approaches to expand financial access to SMEs and women led businesses. Her work has achieved recognition for “best in class” SME specific credit assessment methodology both locally and internationally to expand lending to “new to Borrowing” SMEs. She is a member of the bank’s Digital Council which has overall responsibility for the bank’s digital strategy, approved partnership with fintech companies and monitoring the implementation of digital initiatives.  She is a university scholar, a Fellow Chartered Accountant and holds an MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management, Evanston. She speaks globally on SME Finance and Business services.   Mehi Mirpourian, Data Science Manager - Women's World Banking Mehi leads the organization's efforts to create a global finance system that is more gender-inclusive. Mehi contributes to this goal through two distinct work streams. First, by designing innovative gender-aware financial products using machine learning. Second, by engaging in thought leadership practices that can influence financial policies and advocating for evidence-based best practices. Before joining Women’s World Banking, Mehi worked as a Statistician, specializing in fraud analytics, at the New York City Department of Finance. Mehi holds an MS in Statistics from Baruch College, an MS in Management Engineering from Polytechnic University of Milan, and a BS in Industrial Engineering and Optimization from K.N.Toosi University of Technology. By registering for this event, you agree to the SME Finance Forum/IFC Event Privacy Notice. Relive the event here SME FINANCE FORUM ronyg@panapps.co America/New_York public