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Impact Stories: Cascade Develops Asset-Based Lending Platform to Increase Accuracy, Efficiency, and Transparency

Impact Stories: Cascade Develops Asset-Based Lending Platform to Increase Accuracy, Efficiency, and Transparency

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Geethanjali Jagannathan

Sustainable Finance
Jan 09, 2025
In today’s fast-paced financial landscape, loan originators need asset-based financing from institutional investors to grow their portfolios. However, the traditional fundraising process and ongoing tasks associated with managing debt facilities are operationally intensive, error-prone, and slow. Cascade set out to change that by developing an...
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Spotlight on Innovation: SME Finance Leaders 2024

Spotlight on Innovation: SME Finance Leaders 2024

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Marie-Sarah Chataing

Digital Financial Services
Dec 06, 2024
Featuring Global SME Finance Awards Platinum Winners G ain I nsights from Three Awardees and G et R eady to A pply fo r the 2025 Awards ***************** The Global SME Finance Awards Since its launch in 2018, t he Awards recognize and celebrate the outstanding achievements of financial service providers in delivering exceptional products and...
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Exploring the Future of SME Banking: Insights from IBM's Latest Research

Exploring the Future of SME Banking: Insights from IBM's Latest Research

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Marie-Sarah Chataing

Digital Financial Services
Dec 03, 2024
Welcome to our latest blog post where we delve into the fascinating world of SME banking. During our latest webinar on November 25, we invited Paolo Sironi to share some of the key findings from IBM's Institute for Business Value (IBV)’s recent study, which features contributions from the SME Finance Forum. Together with four banking executives...
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Balancing the demand of SME lending while managing credit risk & regulatory compliance

Balancing the demand of SME lending while managing credit risk & regulatory compliance

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Abhishek Bhasin

Credit Risk & Scoring
Jan 18, 2024
This blog is brought to you by UPLINQ, a Member of the SME Finance Forum. The first part of that blog series is available here. -------------- In the first article of this series, we talked about the challenges faced by banks and lenders in providing financing to SMEs and enumerated the potential solution areas. In this second article, we are...
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Scaling Finance, Creating Livelihoods, Achieving Impact - Powering SMEs and Economies!

Scaling Finance, Creating Livelihoods, Achieving Impact - Powering SMEs and Economies!

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Qamar Saleem

Financial Inclusion
Jan 11, 2024
The SME Finance Forum team and I would like to wish you a happy new year! At the outset, I would like to acknowledge how proud we are to have all of you as members and partners. We thank you for your valuable efforts in scaling SME finance within your own institutions and partnering with the SME Finance Forum. As the headline implies, we are...
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Sustainability in Supply Chain Finance – Need, Challenges and Opportunities

Sustainability in Supply Chain Finance – Need, Challenges and Opportunities

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Khrystyna Kushnir

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Kyle Krym

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Karla Espinoza Arguello

Supply & Value Chain Finance
Dec 19, 2023
Summary of the webinar discussion “Sustainability in Supply Chain Finance – Need, Challenges and Opportunities.” October 25, 8 AM – 9:30 AM EDT Panelists: Host: Qamar Saleem, CEO of the SME Finance Forum; Moderator: Rajesh Mehra, Practice Lead for Trade & Supply Chain Finance, Financial Institutions Group covering the Asia-Pacific region at...
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Transforming MSME lending in India by leveraging advancements in credit decision support technology and contextual data

Transforming MSME lending in India by leveraging advancements in credit decision support technology and contextual data

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Abhishek Bhasin

Credit Risk & Scoring
Nov 17, 2023
Access to finance is a significant challenge for MSMEs (Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises) in India like other emerging and developing economies. Despite the Indian central banks policies and guidelines requiring banks to allocate a portion of their credit for the priority sector, which includes MSMEs, information asymmetry and lack of risk...
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DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS AND THE FUTURE OF SME FINANCING

DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS AND THE FUTURE OF SME FINANCING

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Matt Gamser

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Qamar Saleem

Non Financial Services
Sustainable Finance
Digital Financial Services
Fintech
Aug 15, 2023
For some time, the SME Finance Forum has demonstrated how state-of-the-art SME financing must go beyond credit and use digital technology to enhance customer experience. It’s becoming evident that today’s SMEs expect even more—they expect that their access to finance, markets and management support/skills building can all come in one space, in a...
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The role of credit guarantee schemes in the sustainability of MSMEs ecosystem during the period of conflicts: Evidence from Yemen

The role of credit guarantee schemes in the sustainability of MSMEs ecosystem during the period of conflicts: Evidence from Yemen

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Rami Al-Sabri

Sustainable Finance
Operational Risk
Aug 14, 2023
Introduction The ecosystem of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) has been recognized as a critical driver of economic growth and development in many countries worldwide. These enterprises play a crucial role in creating employment opportunities, generating income, reducing poverty, and improving the standard of living for people globally...
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Data and AI driving diversity in SME Lending

Data and AI driving diversity in SME Lending

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Abhishek Bhasin

Financial Inclusion
Non Financial Services
Alternative Financing
Gender Finance
Youth Entrepreneurship
May 15, 2023
Summary of our webinar on Data and AI driving diversity in SME Lending . A recording of the session is available here . A deck is available for Members of the SME Finance Forum on our Member Portal On April 19, 2023 the SME Finance Forum and Uplinq co-hosted a webinar on the topic of Data and AI driving diversity in SME lending. This topic...
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