Our Events

31 Jan, 2019

Webinar

Members Only Webinars for 2019

Every month the SME Finance Forum organizes a webinar for its members. We invite industry experts from leading banks or innovative fintechs to talk about their approach to small business finance. Members can tune in to the webinars via WebEx or the phone. The webinars are designed to be interactive and we encourage members to ask questions and engage in a discussion with the speakers. If you are interested in learning more about the webinars please contact Farah Siddique at fsiddique@ifc.org Jan. 31 - Credit Scorecards and Big Data Feb. 27 - New Technology Changing Trade and Supply Chain...

10 Apr, 2019

Webinar

Members Only Webinar - Banking as a Platform vs Digital Banking Competition in Emerging Markets

We have featured the new digital banks/neobanks in a number of SME Finance Forum meetings, but mostly they’ve been operating in developed markets (like our member Fidor in Germany, for example). In emerging markets we are seeing some of the original...

20 Mar, 2019

Webinar

Members Only Webinar - Women’s Entrepreneurship Finance Initiative (We-Fi)

We-Fi is a collaborative partnership that seeks to address financial and non-financial constraints faced by women-owned/led small and medium enterprises in developing countries. This webinar will provide audiences with both a general overview of the...

14 Mar, 2019

Singapore

SME Finance Forum Immersion Program 2019 – DBS Singapore

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...

27 Feb, 2019

Webinar

Members Only Webinar - New Technology Changing Trade and Supply Chain Finance

New technology surrounding payments and distributed ledgers is opening up tremendous new opportunities in trade and supply chain financing, moving away from the paper intensive, slow and costly procedures that have posed particular challenges for...

31 Jan, 2019

Webinar

Members Only Webinars for 2019

31 Jan, 2019

Webinar

Members Only Webinar - Credit Scorecards and Big Data

How can banks use big data for smarter decision making in SME banking? The majority of SMEs in emerging markets are informal and lack standard financial and business information that traditional banks require for SME lending. How can banks decrease...

31 Dec, 2018

Webinar

Members Only Webinars for 2018

12 Dec, 2018

Webinar

Webinar sólo para miembros - Plataformas de E-commerce como la puerta de acceso a nuevos servicios financieros para Pymes

Este webinar explorará cómo las plataformas líderes de e-commerce constituyen una puerta de acceso a nuevos servicios financieros para Pymes. Teniendo acceso a los datos de los comerciantes y sus transacciones diarias, las plataformas de e-commerce...

12 Dec, 2018

Webinar

Members Only Webinar - E-Commerce Platforms as a Gateway to New SME Finance Services

This webinar will look at how some of the world's leading e-commerce platforms serve as a gateway to new SME finance services. By having access to data on a merchant's daily transactions, e-commerce platforms can gain special insights into as well...

19 Nov, 2018

Webinar

Members Only Webinar - The State of SME Banking in Africa

Join EIB and AccessHolding for a discussion of the main findings from an EIB report on Banking in Africa. The 2018 EIB study of banking sectors in Africa finds that in many African banking markets, the last two years saw a pause in financial...

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