This webinar will explore the impact of the proposed changes to the Basel III capital framework on SME lending. Is derisking by foreign and domestic banks affecting SME lending banks? Are capital requirements impacting banks’ ability to lend to SMEs? What are the potential effects of certain exogenous events on banks’ ability to serve their SME clients? Specifically, increased capital requirements, coupled with increasing costs associated with Know-Your-Customer (KYC), Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) compliance seem to have affected cross-border banking activities, particularly the correspondent banking business. What can banks do to counter these effects? 

Join Bill Haworth for a discussion and Q&A.

About the speaker

Bill Haworth is the Chief Strategist for IFC’s Financial Institutions Group. His role involves intensive analysis of the global economy and local financial systems looking for ways to encourage economic growth, development and job creation through the financial system. He has worked globally on institutional reform and performance improvement in commercial banking, capital markets, central bank supervision, and has extensive performance improvement experience managing large projects that covered comprehensive improvement programs in operations, technology implementation, risk management and pricing, organization change and cost reduction. He has worked in over 40 countries and has personally conducted work on the ground in over 25 banks in over 18 countries with personal experience working on financial crisis resolution in Mexico, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Russia, Poland, Indonesia, Korea, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Australia and New Zealand.

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